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Dishonorable – But Brilliant "Bridesmaids"
It probably is easier to describe "Bridesmaids" as a "female ‘Hangover,'" but it's so much more. SNL's Kristen Wiig stars as Annie, a woman who's just about hit rock bottom. She lost her life savings when her bakery recently failed, was abandoned by her business partner/boyfriend, and is forced to move back in with her mother. At this less-than-ideal time in Annie's life, her beloved and best childhood friend, Lillian (Maya Rudoph), asks her to be her maid of honor in her pending nuptials to long-time boyfriend Doug.
When Annie drives up to the seriously fancy country club setting for Lillian's engagement party, she immediately feels out of her element, in her decrepit Honda. She's still dressing in the short flirty dresses of a singlet, while she's surrounded by peers wearing Lily Pulitzer and
Burberry. Lillian immediately introduces Annie to her bridesmaid colleagues, who include "The Office's" Ellie Kemper as Lillian's demure co-worker; "Mike & Molly's" Melissa McCarthy as Megan, Doug's unrepentant sister; "Reno 911's" Wendi McLendon-Covy as Lillian's randy cousin Rita, and Australian film actress Rose Byrne as Helen, Doug's boss' wife, and the epitome of wealthy perfection.
Competition between Annie and Helen ramps up pretty quickly and much of the film centers on vying for Lillian's attention.
Wiig co-wrote the film with Annie Mumolo (who has a small part in the film as an equally squeefy airline passenger seated next to Annie in coach – while the others are in first class). Wiig and Mumolo met in The Groundlings, where quick-thinking and quick-wittedness were key to stage time and success, and they demonstrate this throughout the film. Certainly there are over-the-top moments (the film's airplane and insane bridal-shower scenes comes
to mind), but the core of the film – its heart – is really about the struggle a woman (here, Annie) experiences when she realizes she's at a different point in her life than her closest friends.
The film opens by introducing Annie and her pathetic "relationship" with a complete – but handsome and charming -- cad, Ted (an un-credited Jon Hamm of "Mad Men"). It's a familiar scenario to single women, and when Lillian repeatedly tells Annie, "he makes you feel so bad about yourself," it resonates with a good deal of truth. Luckily for the audience and, of course, Annie, she meets Officer Rhodes (played by Irish actor Chris O'Dowd).
"Bridesmaids" has the winning elements of a genuinely funny comedic film – a good script and terrifically funny actors. The first hour and a half of the movie is literally non-stop laughs, the kind familiar to fans, say, of "Modern Family." It is continually funny and the polish on the film is super shiny. It was clearly not an easy film to write and to keep the momentum that Mumolo and Wiig achieve so well.
O'Dowd, who had a blink-and-you'll-miss-him role in "Dinner With Schmucks," will be familiar to American fans of the very funny British series "The IT Crowd." He's a great addition to "Bridesmaids," he's new to Americans, he's fantastically appealing and he's very, very funny.
"Little Britain's" immensely talented Matt Lucas and Australian actress Rebel Wilson are also wonderful as Annie's queer brother-and-sister roommates who "invite" her to move out so they can live on their own. The late Jill Clayburgh is very well-cast and credible as Annie's
mother. They offer a very natural mother-and-daughter relationship.
"Bridesmaids" is not for the faint-hearted – it does have a sweetness to in, both in the romance and the friendship between Annie and Lillian – but it can be quite raunchy and crass – but hilariously so.
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