The Wedding Ringer comes with the Classification Rating warning of strong crude humour, sexual references, drug use and brief nudity. And at 51min 30 seconds into the movie it delivers on pretty much all of these warnings as the Hollywood authored bucks party is brought to life of the big screen.

The movie is about a guy that hasn’t got any mates, he turns to a rent-a-best-man service to fill all seven groomsmen positions on his side of the wedding party. But of course, the wife-to-be can’t know her hubby-to-be has no friends, so the whole thing is orchestrated to keep the arrangement under wraps as an elaborate plan  to give the bride the wedding day she wants unfolds. Part of the rent-a-best-man’s sales pitch is a bucks party for an extra grand, so we’ll cut to the chase and see what they did with that grand over the screen time the bucks party was afforded.

We like

• Jumping castles, chocolate sauce wrestling pools, gauntlet run, go karts and dance party
• Strong buck that keeps to his standards

We’re not so keen on

• Dogs are cute, but the peanut butter incident might have been too much

How the The Wedding Ringer bucks scene went down

Read our story below or head on over to You Tube to watch the age-restricted clip.

The Wedding Ringer bucks party kicks off with the black bag over the head which is synonymous with a buck abduction. In true Hollywood comedy style, it goes off with a couple hitches including the groom rolling out the back of the pick-up truck he’s been tossed into and trying to escape by running across several lanes of traffic before going tits-up on the gutter on the other side of the road.

The head-meets-concrete cracking sound effect had me wondering if the groom was going to be sporting a black eye at the alter, but… the screen goes black and comes to life from the Bucks perspective as the black sack is pulled from his head, revealing a party of bucks proportions with crazy guys in beanies and wiggling girls in bikinis. The buck is hoisted up to crowd surf atop of the party goers, where its declared that the groom has no choice to but to have a bucks party… here here we say!

Complete with jumping castles, chocolate sauce wrestling and … The Wedding Ringer festivities throw up plenty of activities to test the already stretched bikini top capacity to hold in their respective parts. It was disappointing to see they that apparently science has already invented some type of flesh Velcro, with no puppies on the loose for the entire bucks party scene, but that doesn’t mean that the scenery sure wasn’t disappointing!

Anyway, the bucks gets tossed into a private jumping castle where he is greeted by Nadia, a sexy denim short wearing, gold bikini top stretching very little English speaking female bucks party entertainer, who was keen to get the entertainment started.

Many bucks are faced with this test on their bucks night, and we gotta say that Doug handled like a true gentleman whose about to get married.  He respected his wife to be and didn’t succumb to the physical advances, and provided an alternative activity. He’s obviously inspired by Jimmy Kimmel’s and Adam Carolla’s The Man Show end credits and suggests the two of them just bounce around for while – not a bad middle ground to keep face with your mates!

In what appears to be a dance party at an amusement park, the DJ’s playing Biggie Smalls’ hit – Party & Bullshit – rumps are shaking, drinks are flowing and bad dance moves are breaking out. A bunch of people are getting the adrenaline pumping burning around in go karts alongside self-appointed pit-girls line the track.

This scene from The Wedding Ringer flashes through a few bucks party shenanigans like air guitars, 80’s dance moves, and the buck getting dry humped while squealing like a pig. The camera fixes for a short period on a slide that drops into a chocolate topping filled blow-up pool which is a make-shift wrestling pit… and a bit of wrestling takes place until the lads realise it just boys wrestling boys. Awkwardness ensues.

The buck, his groomsmen and a select few ‘bikini wearing support crew’ then run the gauntlet of tennis ball cannons. Again, the head shots should have given a few black eyes on the I Do day, but apparently that doesn’t happen in Hollywood…. but it was good to see a few gratuitous groin shots in there!

Velcro wall. Velcro suits. ’nuff said. I’m not sure how you’d have a bucks party without one.

Then comes The Wedding Ringer’s very serious bucks party bondage scene. The music fades into the background and the dialogue comes back to our eagerly awaiting ears to find out what antics will come to the handcuffed and blindfolded Doug. And, of course, all does not end well for Doug.

With the obligatory spicing of the buck, Nadia is again back on scene hinting that she’s going to finally take the inappropriate advantage of Doug she was longing for at the start of the scene. Under the chanting support from the onlooking crowd, Nadia whispers softly to Doug as she takes out a jar of peanut butter and wipes lashings on his face, before, of course, removing it from his cheek with her tongue.

Falling on deaf ears, Doug again tries to talk Nadia out of what she has planned, but the crowd is egging the events on too strongly for Nadia to back out now.  She dips her hand into the jar once again bringing out a fistful and with a naughty smirk on her face, ducks her head down and off screen… the chants get louder, and shrieks of excitement build the suspense. The scene cuts to Nadia with her hand in Doug’s boxers, obviously massaging the nutty goodness into his, well, nuts.

An then The Wedding Ringer twist.

The crowd starts chanting “Fletcher”, and apparently everyone else knew what was in store for Doug which is kinda odd. Out trots Fletcher, the sad faced, droopy eared dog. Doug still thinks Fletcher is some kinky move Nadia is about to perform on him and continues with his I have to talk her out of this dialogue. But Fletcher knows exactly what to do as he zeros-in on that tasty peanut butter, using the same part of his anatomy as Nadia used to take the peanut butter off Doug’s cheek.

Yep, it felt kinda awkward and I was in room watching The Wedding Ringer by myself. Watch the scene here if you like…

Doug gets descriptive with the sensations he’s experiencing and when the blindfold is lifted it dawns on him that its not Nadia that’s enjoying his salty peanut buttery snack, he looks down and the crowd goes wild.

And just in case you didn’t think that The Wedding Ringer bucks party prank had gone far enough, the crowd cheer, the dog gets spooked and grabs a mouthful of nutty goodness. Screams of pain from Doug are followed by ooows and aaaahs from the onlookers as the sounds of peanut pods being cracked flow from the speakers. a gun shot rings out, an untimely bout of lock-jaw hits the dog and everyone realises the ‘fun’ may have gone too far.

Doug is in tears, the best man is in controlled panic as the scene cuts to the Roto-Rooter van hurtling down the road at a rate of knots. Of course, they couldn’t travel alone so the van is chock full of passengers, all trying to assist poor Doug with a range of home-made remedies.

And what would an emergency run be without the obligatory shit-there’s-a-cop-and-now-they’re-pulling-us-over scene? Drinks are downed, drugs are consumed and true ages are confessed – all activities that make you think the night is going to end in a jail cell. All the while the dog continues to clamp down in the most unfortunate way ever… and of course the cop notices the inappropriate clamping.

The Wedding ringer then enters the car-chase scene as the 90-some year old guy driving takes matters into his own hands, reversing into the cop car, speeding off, crashing through some roadworks signs – all with the cop in hot pursuit – before hurtling toward a conveniently placed ramp of gravel and a fly-by-wire river crossing by evel knievel style jump. They land with some sparks before motoring off calmly to the hospital where we hear the first of Doug’s true feelings for his wife as he confesses to the I speak no english Nadia who has been by his side all night.

But we won’t totally spoil The Wedding Ringer plot for you other than to say that apart from the dog locking onto the ball-sack incident, Doug reckoned his bucks party was pretty awesome. If you can pull off a bucks party half as awesome as The Wedding Ringer (sans the dog lock jaw on the ball-sack), then a whole bunch of awesome memories will be created that the groom will take with him for the rest of his married days!

Author: Bucks Bachelor Stag