Bridesmaids

“Here Come The Bridesmaids”

Although it’s Maya Rudolph who’s getting married, Kristen Wiig and Rose Byrne steal the spotlight as feuding bridesmaids each trying to top each other in their arrangements for the girls’ pre-wedding events. From producer Judd Apatow who has been responsible for raising the bar on raunchy comedy since his 2007 hit “Knocked Up”, here’s a film that lets the women get raunchy for a change. That twist of getting sex jokes from the female point of view is actually a fresh and funny approach to movies like this.

Director Paul Feig is having so much fun with this material, he allows his film to run past the 2-hour mark which is unusual for a comedy these days. But with so many laugh-out-loud moments, the length can be forgiven, even with some unorginial and unfunny bathroom humor thrown in here and there.

The one main plot is easy to follow. A group of bridesmaids prepare for the wedding of their friend. In that respect “Bridesmaids” plays like a female version of “The Hangover”. But sprinkled throughout the film are multiple sub-plots involving lots of colorful characters. (Note to fans of Wilson Phillips. See this movie!) But mainly there is the issue of whether bridesmaid Wiig will ever find true love. Her current romantic interest is in a man who seems to be only interested in her for sex. Then she meets her potential soulmate in a police officer who stops her for a broken tail light.

“Bridesmaids” is a very funny R-rated comedy for women, as well as for men who want to get inside of a woman’s mind. It’s a rare opportunity to experience sex jokes from a female perspective. And, at least with this movie, that’s refreshingly funnier than the alternative.

DVD Double Feature:

“Bridesmaids” is the funniest wedding movie I’ve seen since 1997’s “My Best Friend’s Wedding”. In that movie, Julia Roberts tries to sabotage the wedding of her best friend Dermot Mulroney to Cameron Diaz after she realizes that she herself has always been in love with him.