These Aren't Fake Wedding Crashers

i was going to post my review of The Real Wedding Crashers after watching the first episode, but after watching the episode i really wanted to watch the second one before putting my thoughts down on 'electronic' paper to see if my issues with the show still held true after another episode. now that episode two has aired (a couple nights ago) i am ready to go....

The Real Wedding Crashers is a hidden camera comedy show in which a group of five improv comics crash a wedding and hilarity ensues. see, now that actually sounds like a funny concept, but that isn't exactly how the show plays out.

what really happens for most of the show is that we see flash back punk'd type tricks that the crew played on certain members of the wedding party, like the best man, grooms friend, father of the bride, brides maid, etc... what the show does is put us at the wedding, show us these characters and then show us video of the trick they pulled on them.

now i will say that some of these tricks are pretty funny stuff, like when they tented the wedding hall and pretended that it was being fumigated for termites and spiders the day before the wedding. the 'crashers' are good at what they do and i like how they give a little wink to the camera at the end of each 'scene'.

while most of the show is made up of showing us how they 'crashed' each of the individual victims, there is some crashing that goes on at the wedding itself. like the wiater who takes the plates away before the people are even closed to being finished, or the 'date' that shows up in a wedding dress (that was very funny).

my issue with the show is that there isn't enough of the actual wedding crashing, and instead it is more like individual crashing with a little wedding crashing thrown in. at the end of the show the crashers go up on stage and announce that 'this wedding has been crashed' and everyone is seen laughing and being shocked (and happy that what had happend had been on purpose with the blessing of the bride and groom who are always in on it), but except for the 3 or 4 main people that they pulled pranks on it just doesn't seem like everyone else gets that 'crashed' and it all feels like a bit of a let down from the promised 'real wedding crashers'.

also,the show is too long at an hour and would be much tighter at a half-hour long, and they should decide what kind of show they want to be. not that nbc asked me, but this is what i think they should do (and actually what i thought the show was really going to be)...

they have to tighten it up: i say go all out and make it a half hour of just at-the-wedding crashing stuff. the performers are great, and when they do get the entire wedding involved in thier crashing it can be funny. As it is now, however, it is too long and just doesn't have enough to make the payoff worthwhile.

grade: C+