http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr0Mk3hjc20
What’s it’s like: The Sweetest Thing meets a milder The Hangover
Why you’d like it: It starts off with a very awkward sex scene. It’s got crude jokes about bodily functions and sexual positions, but beneath all that, it actually has a storyline and heart.
Why you won’t like it: It starts off with a very awkward sex scene. It’s got crude jokes about bodily functions and sexual positions. And if you can’t get past that, then you definitely won’t find the heart of the script.
Film student perspective: I love that Milwaukee and Chicago were used, even if they were just the exteriors!
Stefi’s Scope: I so enjoyed this film. Maybe because the script was so well-written (even though I’m guessing most of it was improv) and behind the crude humor and sex jokes (which, by the way, women do talk like this!) laid a story about a lost thirty-something trying to make sense of her place in the world. Yes, most of the secondary characters were one-dimensional (but hilarious). But can you really expect anything more from the film? I thought Kristen Wiig was fantastic. As was Maya Rudolph and Melissa McCarthy (although an Oscar nod? Really?) Favorite parts included the “lucky carrot” bit (there is always one ugly carrot in the bag!), the Fight Club bachelorette idea (genius!), the bridal shower “goodie bag” (She does not get puppy!), and Jon Hamm playing a completely comedic asshole (nice to see him in another role other than Don Draper!)…oh, and DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON WILSON PHILLIPS! (I totally do the drum thing that Maya Rudolph does to that song!)
My advice: take Bridesmaids in the same realm as Wedding Crashers, The Sweetest Thing (was I the only one who liked that movie?) and The Hangover, and laugh your ass off.
