Bridesmaids [MA]

Annie is already battling through a rough patch in her life, but when her best friend Lillian gets engaged and appoints her as her maid of honour, everything gets that little bit worse. Before she knows it, lovelorn and broke Annie is trying to organise fun and bizarre rituals for an odd group of bridesmaids, whilst at the same time trying to outshine the perfect and rich Helen, who seems to be stealing Annie’s best friend away from her. 

I just missed this at the cinemas and I was so peeved about it because it received rave reviews from pretty much every customer of mine who went and saw it. I have to admit that I was really surprised by the movie. I was kind of expecting it to be a bit like a female Hangover type thing, with these girls getting up to all sorts of crude and ludicrous shenanigans; in short, I was expecting it to be rather visually crude and confronting. And I was intrigued that the movie’s crudeness and the squeamishness that it ensued was actually the result of a very cleverly constructed script that had me, and the rest of my family, in fits of complete hysterics. 

Annie is already battling through a rough patch in her life, but when her best friend Lillian gets engaged and appoints her as her maid of honour, everything gets just that little bit worse. Before she knows it, Annie is trying to organise fun and bizarre rituals in the lead-up to the wedding for a group of odd bridesmaids, whilst at the same time trying to outshine the perfect and rich Helen, who seems to be stealing Annie’s best friend away from her. 

The power of this movie is in the script and there is no more to it. It’s rather a verbal film in that it keeps the audience hanging on every word of the dialogue, which, believe it or not, not audiences do for an entire film. Come on, everyone does tune out, if only for a short time. But in Bridesmaids there is no time for tuning out because, if you do, you are bound to miss out on some brilliant moment of verbal comedy. Seriously, the script was everything; it was crude, rude, gross, heart-warming, and literally everything else in between. FAN-BLOODY-TASTIC! 

Kristen Wiig is really making a name for herself, and rightly so because she is a bloody good actress. As far as comedies go, she’s taking the cake for sure. She delivered a performance in this film that was selfish, pitying, lovely, aggressive, frustrated, and really trying. She was absolutely brilliant! 

Starring Rose Byrne, Maya Rudolph, Terry Crews, Wendi McLendon-Covery, Michael Hitchcock, Chris O’Dowd, Ellie Camper, Melissa McCarthy, Rebel Wilson, and Matt Lucas, Bridesmaids was a hilarious movie that was filled with sex, food poisoning, glamour, romance, catfights, awkwardness, and comedy. I loved it, just loved it!