Margo Martindale and Cheryl Hines have
extended cameos with their comic beats overlooked, while Judy Greer is a more complicated supporting character than the film thinks she is.
Not exact matches
There's an
extended appearance by Mike Tyson (in a celeb
cameo like James Carville's in Old School), who is scary even
with his Tweety Bird voice.
After playing an
extended cameo role as Davy Jones» sweetheart in The Monkees» film vehicle Head (68), Funicello cut down on her professional appearances, preferring to spend time
with her family.
Firing on all cylinders
with a sharp script, hot cast and even an
extended cameo from Hollywood legend Morgan Fairchild, eCupid will win your heart!
Also look out for a splendid
extended cameo from celebrated actor, and, along
with Grant, fellow Four Weddings and A Funeral alumni David Haig, as Jenkins» singing coach Carlo Edwards.
Jones soon finds herself at a music festival — Ed Sheeran earns an
extended cameo — where she meets Jack Qwant (Patrick Dempsey) and winds up sleeping
with him in his glam camping set - up.
Instead of our eyes popping at the candy - colored visuals and familiar faces (Zach Galifiankis and Michael Peña appear in
extended cameos), we're left to wonder what any of this has to do
with the eternal bond between father and daughter and how it worked as well as it did on the page.
It's not uncommon for Godzilla to share the screen
with other monsters (he's battled giant moths, sea monsters, flying dragons and even robots), but as the singular title character, his role here is at best supporting if not mere
extended cameo.
It's a scattershot approach, and this also
extends to the film's casting policy, which seems to involve filling the thing
with enough
cameos to paper over the gaps in the script.
They offer more from David's birthday party (
with a better look at Tara Lipinski's self -
cameo), more of David and Julia's pre-drive talk, more of David and McCabe (whose teenage daughters are glimpsed at), an
extended version of the dance club scene, and an
extended ending.
And in regards to the cast as a whole, while the marketing has played up the various stars in the picture, most of them are reduced to
extended cameo status,
with the picture essentially positioned around Rockwell, Farrell and Walken.
And then everything builds towards it, sometimes
with stupid stuff like C. Thomas Howell inexplicably having an
extended cameo, like Tobey Maguire or Nicholas Hammond wouldn't have been far better.
Writers Steve Faber and Bob Fisher devise a number of clever ways to
extend the joke of Wedding Crashers beyond the mere hit - and - run pleasures their characters derive, from having John and Jeremy bet on quoted scripture and ceremonial music (Johan Pachelbel's Canon in D, Richard Wagner's Wedding March Processional, etc.) to having them bound together by a leave - no - crasher - behind credo
with all sorts of other rider attachments that eventually leads to a
cameo by fellow Frat Pack member Ferrell as Chazz, the sort of mystical patriarch of this culture of uninvited party - hopping.
Add in a string of one - scene
cameos (everyone from Jonah Hill to Christopher Lambert), wacky gags (like having Tilda Swinton play rival gossip columnists), and an
extended scene in which Mannix holds a meeting
with religious leaders to consult on Hail, Caesar!
Allison Janney has what is essentially an
extended cameo as a professor - turned - cougar that is all platitude, but she has fun
with it to the best of her abilities.
And there's a whole other chunk of movie following that,
with an
extended third act
cameo by William Hurt that had me literally howling
with laughter («How do you fuck that up?!?»).