Director: Paul FeigWriter: Annie Mumulo
Kristen Wiig
Maya Rudolph
Rose Byrne
Melissa McCarthy
Wendi McLendon-Covey
Ellie Kemper
Chris O'Dowd
Jon Hamm
Matt Lucas
Rebel Wilson
Jill Clayburgh
Rating: *****
Home Release: 14/11/11
This summer there were 3 inappropriate, dirty and damn right funny films, that all came out around the same time.
Number 3: Bridesmaids
The film opens with Annie (Wiig), a 30 something, single, failed business woman sneaking out of her "male friends" house after a night of passionless sex. She soon meets up with her best friend Lillian (Rudolph) who has been her best friend since they were children. They chat about the usual stuff, men, sex, jobs, men, sex, and so on and so forth, basically it all boils down to Lillian thinking her relationship is coming to an end. So, of course it is a shock to both ladies when Lillian's boyfriend proposes, and Annie is thrown into the insane world of wedding and being a Maid of Honour. Wiig and Rudolph are perfect together and they bounce of one another as if they have been friends for years, and it is this that makes the funny as sweet as it is hilarious.
At the engagement party Annie is introduced to all the other bridesmaids. First we have Rita (Mclendon-Covey), Lillian's cynical, bitter and miserable cousin, who hates men and her children as much as she loves booze. She is closely followed by Becca (Kemper), a newlywed, who loves Disney and all things magical. Next up is the grooms slightly more unorthodox sister Megan (McCarthy), she is butch, aggressive and not exactly what Lillian had in mind, but she has a heart of gold and means well at the end of the day. Finally comes the new best friend and Annie's new rival, Helen (Byrne), she is upper class, snobbish and has many lavish plans for the wedding, unfortunately Annie wants something more low key, and so the clash of the bridesmaids commences. Out of all the bridesmaids Megan is the complete and utter standout for me. She is hilariously inappropriate, and McCarthy does a stellar job at bringing this outlandish character to life, but at the same time keeping her lovable.
Of course there are a whole bunch of comical characters to fill out the rest of the cast, and rather than sink into the background each character pops and is just as hilarious as the main cast. Annie's eventual love interest is Officer Nathan Rhodes (O'Dowd), who is played superbly by Chris, who is most famous for The IT Crowd over here, and he is able to bring some of that wit to the film as well. Living with Annie is her landlord and his sister, Gil and Brynn (Lucas & Wilson), two lazy British louts, who slob around and are a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Finally Annie's mum (Clayburgh), who is so divinely inappropriate and on most occasions a little bit tipsy that she makes it easy to relate to Annie even more. Sadly, this was Clayburgh's last role before her death, but what a way to go, in the one of most successful, female lead, R rated comedy ever, beating out "The Sex and the City Movie".
The writing, direction and characters were absolutely perfect, and I actually cannot fault it in any way. It is relatable, and funny, and emotional and just spot on, everything has been developed so well that nothing goes wrong. Each character is as funny as the last, but it still stays natural and to the plot, and I think that is very hard to achieve, but when you do get it right, you get this. Each actress (and actor) does a superb job, and they show that women can do the loud and dirty comedy just as well if better than the men. Step aside Hangover because the Bridesmaids are here, and they can be yours at home on 14th November.
Bridesmaids - Trailer
That film was the end of what had been in my earlier life one of my dream girls for some years, Jill Clayburgh, even though she was considerably older than I, and kind of the beginning of the horror of the reign of loud, unfunny, ugliness, hate, and stupidity of what's her name McCarthy. Just as with Sarrica Jessica Parker, heterosexual males who did not hate women were having their noses pushed into an unpleasant pile of ugliness by white females insisting angrily that it was the opposite. Here is some advice for the ladies: for many heterosexual males, especially those less superficial and intending to make their own money, famous and rich are completely unrelated to sexually desirable. I know -hard to believe. An actress whose niche role of The Plain or The Ugly One has made her rich and famous does not for them magically transform into the opposite of The Plain or The Ugly One, or the hateful one, the stupid one, etc. And many males, even many males with money, will F anything, even things many homeless males would pass up. Hi, Bill Clinton. And Prince Charles. But, I guess that gives all the girls hope. And I voted for the jbeast Hillary Clinton in two election years, as having in my opinion the better chance of winning the general election, or being the lesser of two evils. I knew she was obviously not as intelligent and competent as advertised, but I misjudged how stupid and incompetent she actually is, not to mention how power and money-mad. Read some of the post-2,016 election post-mortem books. Oh, yeah - what made me stop on this site in the first place: I'd just mentioned to a friend how many females, in the getting-to-know-you stage, will disappear into a bedroom or bathroom, completely clothed, then suddenly reappear completely naked. It was kind of a shock/puzzling to me the first time it happened, kind of like going from 15 mph to 75 mph in 1.0 second, but after it happened over and over again, I understood that it was just some kind of a female thing. Jill Clayburgh, and Wiig and Mumulo, know just what I'm talking about, it seems. I guess it's meant to be a kind of hint. You might keep some article(s) of clothing on, though, and let us proceed from there. In the early days of the european conquest of north america, beaver were plentiful all over what are now the eastern United States. A style of men's hat made with beaver fur on the outside became popular there. Called a beaver for short. "Don't forget your beaver," for example. That's how the other became a beaver, also, in US slang. Meow. In a winter haze. How'd I ever find someone like you? Oh, yeah, in a winter haze.
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