Kristen Wiig – good in Adventureland, MacGruber, & with the recent release Paul as well – now gets the focus in the comedy Bridesmaids, a raunchy comedy which somehow feels like The Hangover but the female version, albeit weaker.
Kristen made her writing debut in the film adopting the character Annie, an unfortunate thirty-year-old maid of Honor chosen after Lillian, her best friend gets married.
Kristin Wiig portrays also the woman Annie who is best friend’s who’s getting married Annie’s best friends is also Helen and Lillian. Helen is beautiful, attractive, and wealthy in actuality perhaps more than in appearance and has plans concerning the wedding.
Annie is the one who has the obligation at first but after a failed shopping spree in an ill-planned bachelorette trip followed by an unsuccessful virgin went to Las Vegas; the bride to be has soon won Helen’s favor and poor Annie is left scrabbling at her feet for catharsis to get back on her friend.
It is great fun for the audience as part of the funny stuff comes from Wiig’s physical comedy and verbal interventions that make up the comic makeup of the film. Australian actress Rose was seen as the best friend Helen, who in as the person who has been married too many times, annoyingly too exaggerated admiration for her twirls niemed has so far been two comedies.
Maya Rudolph does nothing but roll her eyes as the future sister in law all the while Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ellie Kemper and Melissa McCarthy – the rest of the bridesmaids – have their share but I guess their characters did not seem so believable more of like caricatures. Although it is even in the character developments that I understand McCarthy’s deluded character who plays the crazy Megan Handler a little too far over-the-top.
Chris O’Dowd who is best known to the UK fans as Roy in The IT Crowd has a very luminous role in this simonentious as a tamed traffic cop who is smitten with Wiig an Irish actress who appears to be charming in every sense of the word even when this one is released I suspect she will be in Hollywood.
On the other hand, special mention should go to Mad Men’s Jon Hamm as well, since in this case he is not just one more common man, but the ultimate basterd, and he has one of the best gags in the entire movie about unforgivable things that happened in a car.
But where one comedic bit worthy of a loud applause occurs in this film, there appears to be one other aspect that does not measure up and serves as a point of apology in such an industry, there was the occasional explosion of a strike but it would be quite a while before the cringe if any is removed from the mass. For every comic bit you know slated for humor in the film another bit misguided or simply screws the point or delivery is only mild hyperbole. One such sequence this one particular I am mentioning is set on a plane and it involves the girls flying to Las Vegas well it seems to take place for eternity and accumulates to desire than explode.
It is a recurrent concern which rather annoyingly seems to be the main reason why there was so much of irrelevant material footage which should have been trimmed down in the editing suite, making the film a more ruthless and lean comedy machine.
But the overall issue with that film is simply that almost none of the characters are explored or even given even a hint of a proper character arc. In this case it funnels in too much plot and has a very strong ensemble cast, but the only person you get to know is Wiig so you don’t give a damn about the rest.
Actually, there also appears to be a worst than average explanation in a lot of character’s actions and typical style they are depicted in, settling for that mifiées of laughs rather than anything deepest of true. Which is so disappointing because, director Paul Feig and producer Judd Apatow otherwise successfully managed great TV show Freaks and Geeks that dealt properly in all three shades of comedey a little sorrow authenticity.
Which isn’t to say that it is a bad movie. It has been said a number of times over the course of the review, Bridesmaids has some of the highest laughs-per-minutes in the most of the comedies, and one must say that it is a must watch for Kristen Wiig fans, toilet humor and/or Wilson Phillips.
However, this deficiency in subtler nuances along with somewhat disproportionate length makes it hard to rank this film in the comedy classics list or wishful thinking as a Ladies Hangover.
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