Short Review: It’s no Wedding Crashers.

Longer Review: Oh look, it’s Owen Wilson, yeah him with the funny nose and the bright blonde hair. What’s he doing? Oh, it’s that thing he did in Wedding Crashers and Shanghai Nights and every other movie he’s been in.

There are certain actors who are ‘Ac-TORs’, then there are ‘Character Actors’ and then there are ‘Characters’. Ricky Gervais is an example of a character, every role he plays is pretty much the same. So too with Owen Wilson. Every single movie I can think of he plays the dopey ‘puppy’ with the heart of gold who really only wants to be loved.

I laughed out loud at Wedding Crashers, a couple of times even. ‘Dupree’ had me laughing at only one scene. But then they ruined the impact of that scene by referring to it throughout the rest of the movie.

The conclusion looks like it was tacked on, the Hudson \ Dillon story is okay I actually found myself rooting for them and hoping everything would work out. Dillon’s overworked, underappreciated husband gets a tiny bit whiny at times but I think pretty much everyone can relate to working in a j0b where you have to keep your mouth shut to get ahead - for a while at least. Although not all of us have to work with our Father-in-law. There were a few times I was hoping Dillon would punch Michael Douglas just to wipe the smarmy ‘I’m married to Catherine Zeta Jones’ smile off his face. On the whole that part of the movie was okay but what happens to Wilson’s character is laughable, and I don’t mean that in a good way. I know the movie is getting huge box office returns and the posters are splashed all over the buses and Wilson is currently Hollywood’s Golden Boy and blah, blah, blah.

I should have waited till it came out on DVD, truth is I wanted to see ‘A Scanner Darkly’ but the next show wasn’t for a couple of hours so I ended up buying tickets to see ‘Dupree’.

Overall not great.