Can you say, "Overrated"?

Rating: 1/10 (24 July 2013)

For a comedy, I really thought this would be a bit more, y'know... funny.
There are really only two ways "Bridesmaids" could have gotten this awful:
1. Bad comedy writers write bad comedy. 2. Good drama writers write good drama which is then turned into bad comedy.
See, here's the thing: Bridesmaids is a movie with an identity crisis; it can't pick a genre. It feels like a pretty good drama was written and then taken to the producers who said "there are too many dramas out there; what we need is a comedy." The times when this movie sucks the most are the times when you could tell the writers were trying to be funny- "trying" being the operative word, here. The fact that I can pick out every single supposed to be "funny" moment in the movie shows that it is not, in essence, a funny movie.
The best comedies I've ever seen had me laughing from beginning to end, with a few exceptions. If you asked me to pick out every time the writers put in a "funny" moment, I would probably end up telling you that the entire film was funny, and that it was too hard to pick out a few moments from that treasure trove of hilarity. Of course, comedy doesn't always mean "laugh all the way through", and I would have been just fine with only a few stabs at humor in this movie had they not all made me cringe until I disappeared into my seat. My friend watching with me tried to coax the people showing us the film to turn it off, because the level of idiocy had surpassed embarrassing.
Ultimately, it was the writing in the movie that made it unbearable for me. They couldn't figure out what kind of movie they were writing, and the price for being unclear conceptually is essentially a mess.
Did this movie have anything worth the 2 hours and 12 minutes it wasted of my life? Yes. Melissa McCarthy was actually pretty amusing. It probably helped that I already loved her from other films.
Rotten Tomatoes, you lost my respect when you gave this a 90/100.