Movie Review: Bridesmaids

Bridesmaids (2011)
IMDB.com Synopsis: Competition between the maid of honor (Kristen Wiig) and a bridesmaid (Rose Byrne), over who is the bride's (Mia Rudolph) best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.


Today I went to a Redbox and picked up Bridesmaids. I don't think I heard a bad thing about this movie while it was in theaters and when I saw it was out on DVD everything about it said, "Hilarious" and "Comedy of the Year". Yes, it was funny, but I wouldn't call it either of those two things.


To quickly run through the movie: Mia Rudolph's character, Lillian, announces to her best friend, Annie (played by Kristen Wiig). At the engagement party, Annie meets her nemesis, Helen (played by Rose Byrne). Helen is Lillian's "other best friend". Immediately the two start their feuding, which is actually pretty funny. Throughout the movie you see that Annie is pretty down and out. She has no money, lives with a really weird pair of British siblings who want her to move out, has meaningless sex with Jon Hamm's jerky character, Ted, and is a baker who lost her business.


As Annie and Helen fight it out to see who is the best bridesmaid for Lillian, comedy shows up in most of the places you'd expect them (and some that you might not). Since Kristen Wiig was one of the writers, the whole is a tribute to her style of humor, which I have always enjoy


Overall it was a funny movie, but I wouldn't say it was hilarious. Kristen Wiig was one of the writers and shows some of her signature brand of comedy and Mia Rudolph reminds us why we loved SNL back when she was a part of the cast. That, I enjoyed. The reason I found it not as funny as it could be was the over-use of sexual innuendos. I'm not a prude. Sometimes those kind of jokes are funny, I admit that, but this was way too much. The fact that the movie opened up with Annie and Ted having sex set (for me) and uncomfortable tone to the movie from the get-go. The language in the movie bothered me, too. I've watched a lot of movies that have the F-bomb in it, but for being as funny as this movie was supposed to be, the language just ruined the comedy.


In the end, Bridesmaid was a movie that I won't watch again. If I had a star system, I'd give it 2 out of 5.


What are your thoughts on this movie? Do you agree or disagree with me? Leave a comment for me.