Wedding Crashers [ENHANCED] [SOUNDTRACK]

Rolfe Kent (Composer)

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 12, 2005)
• Original Release Date: July 15, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Soundtrack
• Label: Watertower Music
• ASIN: B0009ML2VK
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #110,762 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

From the song selection on the Wedding Crashers soundtrack, it seems the disc's creators have seen the phenomenon that is the Garden State soundtrack and have come to capitalize. They didn't get alternative darlings the Shins nor alternative superstars Coldplay, but they do have Spoon (cool), Death Cab for Cutie (cooler), and Rilo Kiley (stone coolest.) Not to mention a new song by those venerated, middle-aged uncles of art rock, the Flaming Lips. (The Lips' "Ambulance Driver" is no "Spiderbite Song," but what can you do? They can't all be pearls.)

But it's unlikely that Wedding Crashers will make a Garden State-sized splash: a) the movie itself has zero indie street cred, and b) unlike the latter CD, Wedding Crashers fails to evoke a particular mood. One wouldn't expect existential melancholy from a Vince Vaughn vehicle, but might at least hope for a soundtrack that goes over-the-top-romantic/cheesy/funny to fit the midsummer night's sex comedy plot. One of the few tracks here that is memorably present in the film is "In the Summertime," by '70s one-hit wonders Mungo Jerry--again not a pearl. Even the Vaughn/Owen rendition of "Hava Nagilah" barely features the stars' voices. This CD is worth owning, but it's best appreciated as a stand-alone compilation, not as a musical partner to the film. --Leah Weathersby

Product Description

This outrageous comedy stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as divorce mediators and life long friends who find their way into a different wedding and a different bridesmaid's heart every week. But when they crash the social event of the season, one of them falls for the engaged daughter (Rachel McAdams) of an influential and eccentric politician (Christopher Walken) and decides to break the "rules" in pursuit of her. The soundtrack features music from Death Cab For Cutie, Flaming Lips, Bloc Party, Spoon, Rilo Kiley, and more. The enhanced CD is loaded with hilarious film outtakes and the music video for "Shout", which isn't available anywhere else.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wedding Crashers hidden song in the movie, July 24, 2005

By	E. M. Blakeley - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you saw the movie, there is a coldplay song that is soo good but they didnt include it in the soundtrack. it is called sparks and its when the guy sneaks over to her room and then she does the same thing.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars no sparks on this weak soundtrack, July 22, 2005

By	lam - See all my reviews

it's missing "sparks" by coldplay... in one of the most emotionally pivotal parts in the movie, this song is played for a good 3 minutes... and that is very long as far as songs in movies go. not only that but "sparks" is probably better then any of the songs on the actual soundtrack.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Remember when soundtracks were soundtracks?, July 24, 2005

By	Drew Burks "British-Junkie-Rock Junkie" (Lorena, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is your typical, "music from and inspired by" album. The songs on this album are good but i agreee with all of the other reviewers that coldplay's "sparks" should have been included because it is featured in the movie. You don't hear it in the background, it is all you hear for a good couple of minutes. Other than that, this is a good collection of songs. Although I thought for sure that I heard ben kweller singing toward the end of the movie. If ben was also left off the soundtrack, this review goes down to 1 star for leaving off two of my favourite artists. To the reviewer asking about the slow song that is not coldplay, I think this is the song you are looking for.