Sunday, June 5, 2011

Eye Candy #537 - "Bridesmaids"

Bridesmaids:  Huge fan of Kristin Wiig here, so I’m glad to see that she’s moving into more marquee parts (in a script she helped write).  Wiig is Annie who, at a low point in her life (lost dream job, can’t find good relationship, is broke), is asked by her childhood friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph) to be the maid of honor at her wedding.  However, one of Lillian’s newer friends, Helen (Rose Byrne), a wealthy socialite, raises the bar on Annie’s jealousy.  Soon Annie finds herself out of her depth trying to keep up with the free- and lavish-spending Helen, as her life falls into little pieces around her.  Chris O’Dowd (from "The IT Crowd") and Jon Hamm (from "Mad Men") play Annie’s love interests, and Ellie Kemper and Wendi Mclendon-Covey are 2 of the other bridesmaids.  Melissa McCarthy almost steals the picture as the loud, brash Megan, another bridesmaid and sister of the groom.  Matt Lucas of "Little Britain" has a very small role as Annie's very weird housemate.  Funny and more than a little bit raunchy (I’m going to go ahead and say there is probably more raunchiness and toilet humor here then there was in “The Hangover”, easily).  Of course, this was produced by Judd Apatow of “40 Year Old Virgin” fame, so that’s not completely unexpected.   Only complaints I have are it’s a little on the long side (over 2 hours) and feels like it has 2-3 different climaxes before it finally wraps things up (that and the preachiness of the “message“ gets hammered home with repetition that is unnecessary).  I hope this movie doesn’t start a trend in people giving away puppies as gifts at bridal showers.  Woodchuck sez, “Check it out.”

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