When Annie is asked to be the maid of honor at her best friend's wedding, she has plenty of reasons to be reluctant. Unfazed, she plunges in anyway, taking her best bud and fellow bridesmaids on a wild trip to Vegas.
I kept hearing that Bridesmaids was essentially a remake of The Hangover but aimed at woman. Watching the trailers, one can make a good comparison of the two, but the two films entirely are two separate films with different intentions. Bridesmaids take the cliché filled romantic comedy genre and adds enough raunchiness to have it being enjoyed by both parties that are in attendance. I’d go so far as to say men will find this better than woman; some of that raunchiness may come to a surprise to them
The story is broken into two parts, both involving Kristen Wigg. One deals with her being the maid of honor and the duties that come with it and the other involves Wigg stumbling into true love. The part centered on the pre-wedding festivities is hilarious. The gags and situations that they come up with come off as smart or crude, either way getting a good laugh out of you. It’s awesome to see an actual wedding film that takes some clichés and completely 180’s them into something you just cannot help but laugh at. The other half involving “true love” is the much weaker part, but for the most part it never feels movie fake other than the fact that cops in movies simply do not act like cops in real life, otherwise nobody would ever get a ticket, they’d just get a date. Had this been the central focus on the film, it would have blew but thankfully it played second fiddle to the great stuff.
A film like this needs a selected cass that can make you laugh by working together; they get that here, but never seem to take full advantage of it. Kristen Wigg has a weird sort of comedy. It all seems to always depend on the situation on whether or you laugh. When the joke is right, you’re laughing your ass off at her, but when she misses, you notice that her jokes are always long, so they tend to drag on and make for awkward scenes. With her being the central character and at all, those two situations come and go often. The true star and breakthrough perfmance came from Melissa McCarthy or in easier terms the fat one. She is the female Allen (from Hangover). She makes off the wall comments that are simply dumb enough that you have to find them funny. The thing that is great about her character is they never get lazy and play with her fatness. Those jokes would be too easy and come off boring, instead her character is high in self-confidence and it allows her to thrive. The movie would have been completely average if it were not for her. The other bridesmaids and the bride is where the film does not take advantage of the talent. They were all funny when they were actually given time to talk, but the focused so much time on Wigg, that they probably had 15 minutes of dialogue combined through four people. I laughed every time at their jokes and would have loved to see more of them.
Bridesmaids is being labeled as the one of the only comedies to be aimed at women, but as I have said before, its jokes seem to be the stuff we see in male comedies only with woman playing the characters. It was a bit weird seeing some the same jokes were accustomed a male saying, but flipping the prospective to the female side and hearing how they say the joke. Bridesmaids is going to be one of the funniest comedies of the year and it would be a shame if the title and box art turned you off because its well worth the watch. The third act drags on a bit and some other parts are slow, but there are still plenty of high moments that make it so fun to watch. The best advice I can give you is to see this and The Hangover 2 back to back in two weeks and make a day out of it. I doubt you could get any better than that.
Overall Score: 7.5/10
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