Bridesmaids

An interesting movie

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you do need friends I really love this movie comedy

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I gave it a go, but didn't make the end. Mind you, when I left the Cinema the youngish over made up tattooed audience were sounding like a pack of hyenas raiding a hen house. Will this rubbish be a hit in the UK, probably will as we seem to gone down the road of laughing like hyenas at stuff that is not funny. Maybe it a hysterical reaction to how dumb and how bad the Hollywood film industry is these days. I am annoyed that I paid good money to watch this rubbish. Do not believe the hype surrounding this awful rubbish. The women in this film are as truly disgusting as it gets, if you like simple hackneyed rubbish about vomit, bodily functions and all that simple morons find hysterical you will die laughing. I thought I'd died and gone to hell! Plenty of great humour comes from the USA but don't waste your time or your money on this rubbish.

Last week I was blackmailed into sitting through this chick flick which I'd heard (from guys and girls I thought I trusted) was "hilarious", but the fact that the opening scene almost made me hurl my face off, paved the way for yet another predictably awful cinema experience. I sat through the movie secretly making notes on my Android, got home, sat down to write this review and thought "where do I start?" and that's when I realised, "when suddenly it becomes difficult to write a review on a movie I hated, I know I've hit an all time favourite" (or not, as it may seem). The story basically follows a bride and her bridesmaids as they try and make it from engagement to marriage and for one reason or another "things don't pan out the way you'd expect" (but actually they do). Refreshingly though, the bride is not protagonist of this movie its one of her bridesmaids; personally I'm bored to death of watching bridezillas! The trailers do a good job making this squashed bike wreck look funny – I smile even now as I watch it again – oops – but believe me when I say those are the only funny moments in the movie. There's an uncomfortable silent-but-violent odour of "the hangover" all the way through the movie, the character profiles are roughly the same (the frustrated married one, the sensible one, the crazy one and the weird permed one) but throw in rich-lonely-bimbo and closet lesbian and you basically have 99% of womanhood represented in the movie. The other hangover whiffs are: the (wannabe) Vegas hen do, stolen puppies' v stolen baby, missing bride v missing groom. The acting came across more forced and scripted than an apology from Bart Simpson; most of the humour (ironically) is toilet humour and why oh why is there some limp, flaccid love story in mix? (Oh yeah, it's a chick flick). Again, maybe this is a girl thing, but I didn't understand anything the women said, I felt like I was watching a schizophrenic have a conversation with a pinball machine (maybe my man-brain just switched off as soon as I heard what I thought were women nagging). Why did Matt Lucas humiliate himself doing this gibberish? What was wrong with Chris O'Dowd's American/Irish accent? Was he meant to sound like bipolar, devil possessed Emily Rose with a speech impediment? By far the worst scene in the movie was the speech scene, I was cringing so hard I think I think my Buccinator (the muscle that makes you smile) went into spasm. The best scene in the movie was the street poo scene – again, ironic how toilet humour (ie man humour) got the theatre erupting. Finally, Melissa McCarthy was brilliant! Although her character was obviously a rip off of Alan from "the Hangover" she played it convincingly and naturally, it's no wonder she is doing great professionally (check out Mike & Molly and we all know she's in Gilmore Girls too). I personally prefer classy, sweet women, so the filthy innuendoes didn't impress me but all in all she's the only thing that makes the movie bearable. Ultimately, I'm an open minded guy ergo most chick flicks I wouldn't actively avoid watching, but this is the clear exception. p.s. I didn't even talk about the dumb British girl, endless woo girls, Rastafarian Father of the bride (huh?) and the Porsche guy (double huh?)...

This movie had reputable and well-liked actresses and staff (I am a big fan of both Wigg and Apatow). This movie had a good budget for a film with no action sequences. However, I will list, for as long as possible, the reasons why this movie sucked Air Marshall * sandwich. 1) Expectations: Don't make a movie and advertise it as Hangover with girls unless you are ready to deliver. Hangover was fast-paced and crazy with unexpected plot-twists and turns around every corner. This was a leisurely comedy. The movie was like a chick flick, but with jokes and poop. I should note that I came into this movie excited and with good expectations. 2) The Lack of Characters: Who was the focus of this Hangover with women movie? The maid of honor, who's life just got worse and worse throughout the film. The bride, who was a cardboard cutout placed into random scenes and referred to by a name. An actress would have been nice in that role. There was also the super-rich and fake girl. None of those were original. The other three characters, the ones who could have made the movie interesting and who I looked forward to seeing more of when they were introduced, but then they did nothing at all. In Hangover, the husband (The boring one in the group) wasn't even around (Because he was boring), and the movie was constantly doing gags and jokes with the three remaining characters. This made it good. In Bridesmaids, the funny characters remained on the side and played no role in the movie (This made the movie bad...). 3) Comic Relief in a Comedy? Why were the British siblings there? There is NO need for Comic Relief in a Comedy unless it really, really sucks. In which case, any comic relief you attempt to add is most likely also going to suck. Even if you liked the movie, this was stoopid. 4) The Formula. In a pity-fest funny movie, things need to start hitting the upswing between 1/2 and 2/3 of the movie. This movie went 100 minutes before the main character turned her life around, and then ended 25 minutes later. The best movies break from the formula... for instance, Groundhog Day follows this same formula. However, this movie was already breaking the script when it decided to have 6 women make a funny movie. It should have stuck to the script the rest of the way through or else it risked sucking, which it did. 5) The Pace. Here is another case where they did not follow the formula. Comedies don't have to have a great story... however, let's not pound the audience in with a chick-flick. Try to cover up the fact that this is a standard chick-flick with jokes and fast-paced humor and do not let the pace drop bellow that of a High-School Prom Queen speech. This will make the audience think about the story... which was a standard chick- flick script. 6) Feel-Good Ending. The jokes do not end in a comedy until the credits roll. Just because the main character is happy again, doesn't mean you take the humor from slow to stop. Oh, and flirting, dancing and a stupidly over-the-top wedding do not count as funny. I guess this movie could be funny for some people. Stupid women who have never seen stupid-man-comedy before may have liked it. Stupid men who didn't realize this was stupid-man-comedy because there were some hot chicks in it (Some...). And even stupider men who like the stupid-man- comedy probably liked it. Otherwise, this movie sucked. I really can't describe it any other way. It just sucked. Badly.

I never thought it possible, but "Bridesmaids" proves you can create a worse, more cringe-inducing film than the "House Bunny" (it may even compete with the Jackass franchise, and oddly, on a major portion of its own turf). I left before it was over, and only stayed long enough to see if some nearby, later scene could possibly be any worse than those I had endured already (a thought that was most vivid as we concluded the scene at the dress shop and I tried to imagine something worse than the fat bridesmaid's performance at the sink). Mission accomplished in the very next scene (as the bride made it to the curb). I had the distinct impression, observing my fellow theater goers in stitches, that I was participating in some deleted scenes from "Idiocracy". No such luck, as this actually happened.

Absurd pathetic women, fart, poop, drunk humor that isn't even funny. It is obvious that there is much improv going on as the characters do not connect at all and some of the conversations between characters don't make much sense or tie to the rest of the film. The gags such as the engagement party toast go on and on and on and completely lose the viewer. In real life, people would get arrested and lose their jobs if they did some of this stuff (especially the cop). The gags end up being annoying rather than funny. I haven't walked out of a movie in decades, but I walked out of this one. Some of the actors are good, but this movies is an abomination and a total waste of money. That's an hour and half and $7.50 I'll never get back. Awful, awful, awful.

This movie was SO AWFUL it gave me a headache. ANYONE who thinks this is humor is out of their mind. It is grotesquely sad to me that in this day and age "humor" has resorted to being a fart, or vomit, or toilet scenes, or comments about body parts and secretion. It's really just disgusting and shows a COMPLETE lack of originality and talent in writers. The scene with the women trying on dresses and getting sick is revolting and gratuitous at best. I found the entire film degrading to women and vile child's play. AND TWO HOURS LONG?!!!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? I had an expectation that it would be silly but just went for a laugh. What I got was depressed and a headache. What is most depressing is that sadly, this generation sees this as humor. And they will never know the likes of great comedic writing and true humor that comes from situation and from brains and true wit. Someone should shoot Jud Apatow. But instead, like many other untalented children in Hollywood - he was probably rewarded with millions in a paycheck and residuals. Oy evay how I long for class and dignity of the "good old days".