Not as good as the reviews say

Rating: 1/10 (19 December 2012)

Bridesmaids. The cast go for broke in their effort to breathe life into the weak material, and for the most part come off badly. Wiig is trying to be a wild-eyed Lucy Ricardo type, and grows increasingly annoying as the plot proceeds; but then she has nothing to blame but her own script. Byrne is appropriately uptight and rigid, and manages to suggest the vein of vulnerability in Helen that's ultimately supposed to make her less than obnoxious, but again the screenplay doesn't offer her much to latch onto. Under Paul Feig's typically unsubtle direction McCarthy comes on big and brassy, and would have benefited from some greater distancing to make her less overbearingly; by contrast Rudolph makes virtually no impression. Worst used of all are Hamm, who adopts a smarmy smugness that reduces him to a Hank Azaria type, and the late Jill Clayburgh as Annie's oddball mother. Like Apatow's other output, "Bridesmaids" is nicely mounted, with Robert D. Yeoman providing crisp cinematography and editors William Kerr and Michael L. Sale doing their best to smooth over the episodic feel and keep up the energy level. It's hardly their fault they don't entirely succeed.
Weddings are trying experiences as a rule, and so is "Bridesmaids." The attempt to apply the male slob template to female characters is dispiriting, and it's more depressing to think it will probably be a great success.