I put off watching the movie " Bridesmaids " because I thought it would be a bonefide chick flick. Yes, the film does focus on women planning a wedding, which smells like smoke in a chick flick fire. Also, there is no substantial male role in the film. Men are reduced to frustrating peripheral love interests of the women, which, again,is very chick flickish.
That said, this film had humor. It felt a lot like the classic "Wedding Crashers" movie. Guys will laugh out loud watching "Bridesmaids". Some of the humor is downright offensive in a great way. You'll never forget the scene where the bridesmaids are trying on high end wedding gowns and they all suddenly succumb to food poisoning. Yeah, lets just say it gets messy.
Bridesmaids is fun to watch and doesn't follow all the normal cliches. Kristen Wiig (who also wrote the film) is perfect as the working class bridesmaid who wants more control over the wedding but struggles against an overbearing, snobbish, more privileged, and more beautiful woman. It would be so easy to make Wiig's character sympathetic to audiences. It would be easy to make the character more of a heroic underdog who, after huge punishing obstacles, finds redemption in the end. It doesn't quite work out this way though. She is very imperfect, occasionally annoying and her best intentions often fall flat where her antagonist often shines. At times I found myself routing for her arch rival.
Bridesmaids was a truly funny film. Check it out sometime.
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That said, this film had humor. It felt a lot like the classic "Wedding Crashers" movie. Guys will laugh out loud watching "Bridesmaids". Some of the humor is downright offensive in a great way. You'll never forget the scene where the bridesmaids are trying on high end wedding gowns and they all suddenly succumb to food poisoning. Yeah, lets just say it gets messy.
Bridesmaids is fun to watch and doesn't follow all the normal cliches. Kristen Wiig (who also wrote the film) is perfect as the working class bridesmaid who wants more control over the wedding but struggles against an overbearing, snobbish, more privileged, and more beautiful woman. It would be so easy to make Wiig's character sympathetic to audiences. It would be easy to make the character more of a heroic underdog who, after huge punishing obstacles, finds redemption in the end. It doesn't quite work out this way though. She is very imperfect, occasionally annoying and her best intentions often fall flat where her antagonist often shines. At times I found myself routing for her arch rival.
Bridesmaids was a truly funny film. Check it out sometime.
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