Good jokes spread far too wide.

Rating: 6/10 (10 July 2013)

I started Bridesmaids once back in the last Oscar season but I couldn't get passed the first half hour. My enthusiasm for that year wasn't enough to force myself through everything and I don't think I was in the mood. I decided to give it a chance now that I want to watch all the Oscar nominated screenplay films so I skimmed what I saw and continued from there. Bridesmaids is essentially 2 hours of Kristen Wiig's sense of humour, which is good in small doses where I enjoyed her in her bit parts of Apatow films, but this film is hit and miss gags (the bleached asshole gag had me on the floor though). I wonder if the nomination is just for all the "gross- out" comedies of late because this one wasn't anything special.
It has some sharp moments and it does do a great job of making Wiig's character hit rock bottom, but there were a few moments I felt were out of character just for laughs. Melissa McCarthy was actually pretty good, but not Oscar calibre, not even up to Robert Downey Jr. tongue-in-cheek Tropic Thunder calibre, but good for the package she's in. I love The IT Crowd but the misuse of Chris O'Dowd really sucked. His character was written embarrassingly bad. His first scene is what made me turn off the film the first time. This second attempt was more entertaining this time round but the film's biggest problem is the awful pacing. It's ridiculously slow and lacks all story drive. It needed a good ruthless editor to come in and kick some life back into it. Beats The Hangover anyway.
6/10