I'm gonna climb that tree.....

Rating: 7/10 (17 July 2011)

Annie is a maid of honour whose life unravels as she leads her best friend Lillian, and a group of colourful bridesmaids on a wild ride down the road to matrimony.
Annie's life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian's maid of honour.
Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals....
The perfect tonic to this years very overblown and disappointing follow up to the Hangover, Bridesmaids is everything you can expect from a 'Chick Flick', Girls fighting, girls laughing, The best friends hating each other and then becoming friends at the most important reel.
It's all predictable stuff, everything happens that you would expect to in this sort of movie, and then something else happens. All those sweet sickly movies when someone gets vexed and you wish they say something, well, this happens in this movie, a lot.
All the characters are likable and hateful at the same time, but this makes them all the more believable and gives them a more human element than you would find in a Phillips movie.
Wiig and Byrne are the main draw here, providing the main narrative for the laughs, and whilst there the obligatory fart and sick jokes, they are few and far between and don't taint the overall effect of the movie.
O' Dowd proves once again that a Hollywood career beckons as the likable cop Wiig falls for.
It's the perfect movie for people who don't want the big blockbusters this year, which to be fair is a lot this year, and just want something to laugh at.
It's a big hug of a movie, with a dirty streak right down the middle of it.