Appalling

Rating: 1/10 (28 July 2012)

I saw odd clips of this movie and thought "that looks quite entertaining" How wrong was I? VERY wrong. It lacked wit, charm, a decent script and a cast that one could warm to.Only Melissa McCarthy(?) acquitted herself fairly well. Rose Byrne was a real disappointment after having seen her in Damages. Miss Wiig was just annoying and really not very funny at all. It seems that the SNL participants only travel well in the States as I have rarely found any of them funny enough to drag me into a movie. The whole movie lacked wit and any kind of intelligent humour. After the hype about it Bridesmaids could not help but be a huge disappointment. It was just another gross out movie but made by women. The fact that the main cast were women was about the only thing to recommend it. A great pity that it was just not up to it for me. It's now August 2015 and I thought I would give it another go in case it was me and not the movie. It is actually worse than I remember - not even a smile was raised and I consider myself to have a good sense of humour. Not a single person in the movie was likable and seemed to have any comedic talent at all. It is almost a guarantee of dire results if Matt Lucas is in it and Chris O'Dowd is just chronic. If I could give this ordure a minus score then I would. Where are the comedies with the quality and wit of Some Like It Hot? Where are the scriptwriters who can really sharpen up a screenplay and make it work? Utter utter shite is the only description I can give to rubbish like this. The cinema-going public must be morons if they enjoy this stuff.