Bridesmaids Movie Review [Rating:9/10]
Review by The Globe and Mall
There are few roles in an adult woman’s life as rife with comedic potential as that of bridesmaid. Take any 30-year-old woman, force her to wear silk organza, drink from an open bar and cater to another chick’s most perverse wedding fantasies and laughs are guaranteed to follow.
Enough women know this to guarantee that Bridesmaids, a female buddy flick co-written by Saturday Night Live star Kristen Wiig, will be a must-see movie for girlfriends.
Let’s hope the women who make up the majority of audiences also realize that the lead-up to a wedding can last months, because the movie’s early scenes similarly drag. But like any party, things get much better once the introductions are out of the way and everyone has a few drinks in them.
The movie is produced by Knocked Up comedy overlord Judd Apatow, who was apparently reluctant to call it Bridesmaids because he didn’t want it to be seen as a movie about weddings. And it isn’t. Like Apatow’s best work, this is about friendships – only this group of loveable misfits wear matching purple gowns.
Movie Review by CNN
Whether it’s “Step Brothers,” “I Love You, Man” or “Borat,” guys have laughed long and loudest over the last decade in cinema. So much so that they have spawned a new epithet, the “bromance,” while their wives and girlfriends have mostly looked on from the sidelines.
“Bridesmaids” does something to redress that imbalance.
Written by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig (who also stars) this is definitely not just another chick flick, and it has next to nothing in common with those twee, mirthless attempts to revive the romantic comedy that have kept Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Aniston and Katherine Heigl so busy in recent years.
No, “Bridesmaids” is a stiletto-sharp, raunchy, no-holds-barred yuk-fest that stands as a worthy female counterpart to the likes of “Wedding Crashers” and “The Hangover.”
Movie Review by Week Rewind
There’s a moment in the new comedy “Bridesmaids,” where Kristin Wiig’s character, Annie, refers to a fake boyfriend named George Glass. George Glass, of course, is probably the most famous faux-suitor in the world, finding fame in the 1960s as the imaginary man of one Jan Brady.
It’s no surprise that Annie would be interested in the same man: Annie is essentially a mid-30s version of Jan—the new Jan Brady, if you will.
This concept drives “Bridesmaids.” Annie’s life isn’t what she hoped for: Her love-life is in the toilet, acting as a friend with benefits to a hilariously chauvinistic Jon Hamm; the bakery she bet the farm on went under; her living situation with two creepy British siblings is off-putting; and when she’s crowned maid of honor for her best friend’s wedding (Maya Rudolph), she spends the next few weeks “Marcia-Marcia-Marcia-ing” Helen (Rose Byrne), the bride-to-be’s new best friend.
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