Picked as her best friend's maid of honor, lovelorn and broke Annie looks to bluff her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals with an oddball group of bridesmaids.
Like a drunk wedding guest, Bridesmaids is very funny, but someone should really have kept it under control.
It’s uneven, unwieldy and overlong, but if it’s yucks you’re after you’ll find them in abundance in a side-splitting comedy that lifts the veil on every wedding’s unsung heroines.
Like every film from the Apatow factory, it’s slightly too long. But that’s about the only niggle.
Finally, a female ensemble comedy that balances realistic characters with smart laughs and side-splitting farce. Not everything works, but there’s more than enough here to keep you chuckling — not to mention baying for a sequel.
Bridesmaids is a terrifically funny, smart and tender ensemble comedy.
Though I’ve seen Bridesmaids three times, I can’t wait to see it again.
It’s far too long, over-crammed with musical montages, and hampered by a hideous singsong finale. But, really, bottom line: it’s the best thing Apatow’s put his name to in years.
One of the best comedies of the year so far.
Through a combination of smart performances and scurrilous gags Bridesmaids yanks the buddy comedy from the hands of its traditional owners.
At its best, Bridesmaids does that wonderful thing: tell the truth, indelicately.
It is so funny because it is all so painfully real.
Beg, steal or borrow, just make sure you see this film - and that's not something I've said since The Hangover.
The gags are funny and consistent enough, and Wiig and co are so appealing, that any flaws are easily forgiven.
Bridesmaids achieves, through the laughs, a kind of poignancy and empathy.
Unashamedly smart, in a way that's widely permitted on US television but almost never in the movies, Bridesmaids has been hailed as a groundbreaking blow for American female cinema. That says a lot about the extent of Hollywood's current conservatism, but for now, Bridesmaids does nicely as a tonic corrective.
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