cerenolcay
Definitely one of the best comedy movies I have ever watched!! I really had so much fun while watching it. The B-E-S-T!
debbiekirk24
I can't believe all the poor reviews on here. I absolutely LOVE this film. It is hilarious and it is one of the few films I could watch over and over again without getting bored. A talented cast bring to life a hilarious script and I lost count of the laugh-out-loud funny moments. The worst part of the film is the title. I ignored this film every time I saw it listed because I had confused its title with Bride Wars with Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway which I found irritating rather than funny, but when I eventually decided to give Bridesmaids a go because there was nothing else on TV, I got such a fantastic surprise. I can only think that the viewers who gave this film such scathing reviews had been expecting a rom com, and this is nothing of the sort. Think of The 40 Year Old Virgin or even Two and Half Men and that is the kind of humour you get from Bridemaids, but with superbly funny women in the lead roles. Thank you so much to everyone involved: I can't wait to see it again!
Mike Beranek
Wow, I'm left having to seriously question my gender after I so much enjoyed watching this comedic tour de force. On a second viewing too I was again crying tears of joy and empathy for the company of girls who pull this off so well. The writing is perfect, and the gross-out slapstick and wisecracks traditionally given to a bunch of dudes are doubly enhanced delivered by this feminine ensemble. Men are very peripheral here - the only more fully-drawn featured fella has to mostly remain on the stage margins. However Chris O'Dowd is perfect as the chatty, selfless but not creepy match for poor Annie. They have such a lovely no frills off-beat romance. This contrasts with the elaborate wedding the movie might appear to be about but of course is not. One cant but wonder if Annie has learned never even to entertain the idea of wedding in the future i.e. on the day she she bags her knight in shining armor. Is this movie devaluing weddings? A bit. Pehaps it's just life events challenge us all and we find ourselves viewing the wedding from Annie's perspective: essentially a loss of a friend with one's youthful hopes & dreams given away to a bland indefinite future. The downward spiraling situation of Annie's played by the waifish Kirsten Wiig serves as the central comedy fulcrum. Her friends are unable to pull her out as she stumbles around and observes so recklessly various absurd truths. She fights a lonely battle trying to stop her friend's wedding becoming a charade masterminded by loathsome Helen Harris the Third. But there's a naive lack of cynicism and mutual high regard in the air so that by the end, miraculously the value of the titular wedding has not been completely undermined, just a little though, quietly upstaged by Annie's unconventional romance. There's numerous mad and funny characters throughout like weird lodger Brynn played by Rebel Wilson. Ultimately it's the cogent story that has the touch of Jane Austin about it, the great bits of dialogue and the star-quality acting that distinguishes this film as top class.
kevinwhitehead-09099
This movie is a future classic with so many laugh-out-loud quotes that stay with you. I'm a guy and this is one of my favorite movies.Negatives: Only one and it is slight. The romance between Wiig and her boyfriend. There was just something missing. They had great chemistry it was just the scenes with them were below the rest of the movie. But they were needed.PositivesFirst of all Melissa McCarthy is great, her best performance, obviously. She deserved the Oscar nomination and maybe deserved to win. Wiig is good, her best performance. Her writing in this movie is also Oscar-worthy. The rest of the cast is phenomenal with Rose Byrne, Maya Rudolph, Ellie Kemper, Wendi McLendon-Covey, and Rebel Wilson who steals every scene she is in. Just look at all the great scenes; Engagement party, dress scene, airplane scene, car scene and my favorite the giant cookie scene. This is by far the funniest movie of the 2010s so far, and maybe one of the funniest of all time.
AD
