Meh

Rating: 2/10 (31 December 2012)

I don't get it. I don't get why people actually think this film is fresh and original. A female version of the Hangover - hardly. I especially didn't get it when two Oscar nominations materialized. (really Academy?)
Look I'm a guy who likes juvenile, gross-out films (provided they are moderately well-written) and I also like chick flicks. (I've watched 27 dresses more than once... granted I think it's cheesy - but familiar cheese.)
Bridesmaids is a film that tries too hard to be a juvenile, gross-out comedy with heart that it forgets to string out a plot that makes sense or develop characters that I either care about or in the very least am entertained by. To punch up the "comedy" and make it more "Hangover- like" was merely to add the gross-out humor. (Oh look she's pooping in her wedding dress... haha).
Specific plot and characters issues have been pointed out in previous reviews.
But make no mistake, put any other cast in this film and it would most certainly have been universally panned. Bridesmaids is a case where the cast has elevated what is obviously an extremely bland script and made it to... at best a C- quality straight to video piece.