Just an Honest Review

Rating: 3/10 (19 April 2012)

Bridesmaids was pretty much exactly what I was expecting it to be. If you've heard that "it's the female version of 'The Hangover,' it's true, there's not much more to it than that. I'm not going to rate it one star to "even out the hype" or anything, just give my honest opinions.
Now maybe I'm unfair because I'm not a fan of "rom-coms," I'd take a Tarantino film any day over any kind of chick flick (and I'm a girl), and while this movie doesn't fit that exactly, the ugliness in it, however, was something I just couldn't look past. I don't find it entertaining to sit through women being just absolutely vile and catty to one another.
Take some of the situations out of their context, and they might have been funny. I kept sitting through the movie thinking to myself that if some of these things were to happen to me in real life, it would have been hilarious. Like a friend of mine getting smashed on a plane or a person attacking a giant cookie. These things sound like they would make for great laughs but put them in the context in which they were delivered, and I couldn't even giggle.
And not that someone should act in that way at any age, but these women looked to be about at least 40. The fact that they would carry themselves the way they did was just unbelievable and (hopefully) unrealistic. In general, the characters were either unlikable or unremarkable. The fact that I sat through the entire movie getting more and more annoyed at the way Annie acted definitely score the movie no points.
And as for the humor, no surprise that it's crass. Kinda have to take it or leave it. I'm not too mature to the point where some cheap jokes can't make me laugh, but if that's all you've got, stretched out over two hours, delivered by these women, then no thanks.
All that aside, there's warm, best-friends-forever love moments, the girls work out all their kinks and Annie gets her guy. She bakes again, it's touching. Melissa McCarthy's character made the entire movie. It wan't all bad, truthfully, but for me, was just a one time watch.