If you haven’t seen Bridesmaids I just feel sorry for you. No, wait. I envy you. There’s something delicious in store for you. You have something to live for. I don’t care how bad it is for you right now, with the recession and all. Doesn’t make a difference if your wife left you last week. You have plenty to live for if Bridesmaids is on your horizon.
If you haven’t seen Bridesmaids I just feel sorry for you. No, wait. I envy you. There’s something delicious in store for you. You have something to live for. I don’t care how bad it is for you right now, with the recession and all. Doesn’t make a difference if your wife left you last week. You have plenty to live for if Bridesmaids is on your horizon.
I suppose I’m saying I liked it. Yes, I liked it. I definitely liked it. I dare you to not like it. Good luck not liking it. You know how it takes more muscles to frown than to smile, so you should just smile or some stupid stat like that? Well, it would be five thousand times harder to not like this movie than to like it.
Even if you are a guy. There, take that. Guys are going to like this movie way more than chicks are going to like Fast Five, which is playing right next door. In every theater.
Why is it so good? Just lucky, I guess. No, there’s more. I can actually tell you why it’s good. That’s my job.
There’s a simple, touching story of Kristen Wiig, who’s life got real bad, while her life-long friend Maya Rudolph’s life got real good, leading even to marriage—sounds lame? Sure. But there’s a lot of comedy piled on top of it.
That’s the Apatow way. Take a sweet, simple story – loser gets a girl pregnant, two guys are going to a party, or girl feels left behind by her best friend—then back up the truck and dump comedy all over it. That’s the formula. There was a lot of gross stuff, but it wasn’t like in a lot of movies, when it feels forced, like “let’s just be gross now, people like that.” It was all dripping with story. Lousy with story!
The actresses are great. And funny. Authentically funny, not just hot chicks who are given funnily written things to say, as is the usual. Except maybe one. But I’ll let you figure out which one.
These are mostly seasoned Groundlings ladies and proof (not that I needed it, but maybe you did, or Jerry Lewis) that women are funny. Super funny. And not just Tina Fey. There are others.
Quick! Call the police! Because Melissa McCarthy stole every scene she was in!!!
I went with my boyfriend. That’s right, I have a boyfriend. All these date movies have moved me into a relationship. That’s the magic of cinema. Actually, he went with me. I told him I was going to review it, and he was all, “I’ll come with you, you shouldn’t have to see it by yourself.” It’s fine, I don’t mind. “No, I will. For you. I’ll go see it.”
That’s how a lot of guys are going to weasel their way into the movie. They’ll feign the “I’m doing you a favor” thing. As if it’s Sex & the City 4. It’s not. The Sex & the City movies will now have nightmares about Bridesmaids and how good it is. This is the chick flick that will raise the bar on all chick flicks – like what Jaws did for scary movies. This is the new standard. I’ve suspected for a long time, even did a rant about it on CFN, that chick flicks do not have to suck. This is proof positive, and stated on some of the posters. It doesn’t suck. Not even in the middle where a lot of movies get sucky. It’s suck-free.
Is it a good date movie? Yes. It’s a good anything movie. Girls Night Out, Date Night, I’m-super-depressed-and-going-to-see-three-movies-in-a-row Day, whatever you need. Just see it.
But first, forget everything I said here. And what all the reviews are saying, I’m sure. No movie is ever good when it’s supposed to be the best thing ever. You’ll find things to hate, then you’ll be the person who’s all, “I don’t see what’s so great about that dumb female Wedding Crashers blah blah blah. Don’t do that. Don’t be that jerk. Just see it. & enjoy.
—Laura House
