great movie

Rating: 10/10 (27 October 2014)

Warning this review has spoilers.I loved this this movie. Even though like most chick flicks its not all realistic, I feel the characters are familiar to most of us. Annie is attractive and smart but at a lower point in her life. She has no boyfriend or career as her business she owned as a pastry chef failed and she worked at a low paying sales job. After shes asked to be bridesmaid, she meets her friends glamorous wealthy friend Helen who married well but has bratty spoiled step children, no kids of her own. I think she met her through her fiances job.You also meet a wealthy glamorous group of friends I think she met through Helen. Helens personality might be familiar to most of us, maybe not the wealth, but the glamorous model figure type. At first i didn't like her cop boyfriend but he seemed to show a nice side and wasn't like the losers she dated. The part where everybody including Annie gets sick because Annie suggested a cheap run down looking restaurant that she could afford to eat lunch at with the girls seemed dumb as restaurants do not have to be pricey to be clean, but perhaps the point was just that it was one wrong thing after another and just bad luck. Helen takes over with planning everything and shot down every idea she has from the shower, the brides maids dresses. Some of Annies ideas are nice and reasonable. Hellens ideas were nice too and she seemed well intentioned but she was insensitive to then Annies feelings and didn't see her perspective. She also didn't seem to realize a wedding stuff such as brides dresses and bachelorett parties involve all the brides maids who may not be wiling and able to pay a lot. Bachalorett parties usually aren't expensive vacation as usually you plan something everybody can afford. Hellen planned nice things and had great taste but she was insensitive to the fact that not everyone can afford what she can. She may have always had money and might not have realized that. I felt bad when Annie had the melt down at the shower. Of course it wasn't the time and place, but her fiend was being insensitive and her extravagant wedding plans and rich group of friends got to her head so she got fed up. Its great that she had bigger and better things but she kind of lost who she was.Towards the end you find out those over the top wedding stuff Helen planned, the bride and her parents couldn't afford and it seemed some of it, including the dress Helen got her just wasn't her style, which was part of what angered Annie to begin with, she knew all that stuff wasn't her but she wanted to fit in with her new rich friends. Annie and her make up but her friend i feel doesn't really appologize the way she should as she did take Annie for granted. However Annie seemed happy she was back to the friend she knew since childhood. Melissa MC Carthys character was funny, she seemed goofy but you later realize she was confident and successful and just didn't care what anybody thought, might seem arrogant to some but possibly familiar to some of us.