Not a highly intellectual film, but extremely funny. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn star as divorce mediators who crash weddings to meet women for one-night stands. Then they attend the wedding for a prominent politician's daughter, and Wilson falls for the sister of the bride (Rachel McAdams). Vaughn is pursued by the bride's other sister, who is somewhat of a stalker type. The men get invited to the family's waterfront estate. Vaughn reluctantly agrees to accompany Wilson to the estate, even though he would like nothing better than to escape. Bad things happen to Vaughn (he gets mauled in a family football game and gets shot in the butt, for starters) while Wilson tries to woo McAdams away from her boyfriend.
A sidenote: my friends and I apparently weren't in an audience of Queer as Folk viewers. There were a couple of mildly homoerotic moments that seemed to shock this particular crowd, as evidenced by a collective intake of breath. We thought they should get over it already, but that's the Tri-Cities for you. It's not Seattle, that's for sure.
Anyway, it's not a movie for deep insights, but it's great for laughs.
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