I saw a partial of this a few weeks ago and when it came on at a convenient time in the hotel, I decided to watch the whole thing. I should have left it alone at the partial. When I saw bits and pieces of it, I liked what I saw. When I saw the whole thing put together I didn’t like it any better. It was cute but it was the same Owen Wilson plot. If they had put Vince Vaughn in place of Matt Dillon, it would have been a bad “Wedding Crashers” reunion and more appropriate because Vaughn and Wilson had a nice chemistry on screen in that one.
Matt Dillon is getting married to Kate Hudson and his best friend is Dupree (Owen Wilson.) Dupree loses his job because he took the week to go to Hawaii for the wedding. Dillon and Hudson take him in for “a week”. The wacky house-guest issues ensue and on top of that, Dillon is being hassled by his new father-in-law at work. The pressure is driving Dillon and Hudson both nuts, they kick Dupree out, she feels bad for him and invites him back. Dillon is starting to go crazy because he is working all the time and this leaves his best friend alone with his new wife, both of whom are upset that he never has time for them. They commiserate, the father-in-law bonds with Dupree and all of this pushes Dillon over the edge and he attacks Dupree. Everyone gets back together, the daughter sees that her father was instigating a lot of the trouble and the three of them are happy again.
Boring. There were very few entertaining moments that stood out and I even had a hard time writing this up. The “whipped married friend” played by Seth Rogan was funny for the few seconds he was on screen. The fantasy scene of Kate Hudson in a bikini and high heels was worth the entire movie.
It was alright to watch but I wouldn’t go so far as to even put it into my Netflix queue.
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