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Owen Wilson is a very funny man, with a special talent. That talent, of course, is the ability to bring a remarkable amount of charm and down-home comedy to what could just be hokey slapstick (witness him breathe life into the otherwise duds of films like "The Big Bounce'' and even in his two and a half scenes in "Meet The Fockers") Vince Vaughn is an equally funny man. Known until recently as ''that guy'' who steals most scenes in films like "Anchorman" and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", but showed he could carry a film when he starred in " Dodgeball", bringing a winking realism and sarcasm that the film desperately needed, and delivering true comic greatness in the early 90's "Swingers''. In "Wedding Crashers", which debuted last week at #2, Vaughn and Wilson star as two divorce moderators who, during 'wedding season' (roughly May - June), pose as guests at weddings, and reap the benefits, going by a seemingly endless rulebook which exists only in their minds. Their goal may be less than noble, but their methods are superficially harmless (Vaughn tells fictional war stories; Wilson dances with a 5-year-old bridesmaid.) But then, as must be done, Wilson breaks ranks, and falls for the daughter of the US Secretary of the Treasury (the ever-wonderful Christopher Walken) at her sister's wedding. The bulk of the film takes place in Walken's vacation house, where Wilson pursues Claire (Rachel McAdams), Vaughn is stuck contending with her amorous, if loony brother, violent fiancee, and Walken's other daughter who can just barely keep her hands off him. Actually, she doesnt. Though lacking in the coherency of a plot or reasoning behind character decisions, the sharp script and impeccible chemistry between Wilson and Vaughn and Wilson and McAdams more than makes up for it (along with a cameo by a well-known comic who lends his own special charm to the film.) Though it runs a bit long, it is in all a very, very fun and enjoyable time at the movies. B