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Bridesmaids (the next comedy from Judd Apatow)

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Messi said:
Never seen him on 30 Rock? Comedy gold!

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Ooh look, its the cute girl from the office.

I did not laugh once at the trailer though :( . Releasing this a week before the Hangover 2 pretty much means its being sent to die.
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LOL.
 
Saw it today finally...so good. Wiig is amazing, such a fantastic actress. Both comedy and otherwise.

Best parts:

- Entire Airplane scene (Stove)
- Getting the cops attention.
 
LTTP but damn this movie is great! Really was expecting it to be something similar to Sex and the City or Mama Mia in being completely trashy and something only girls could relate to, but I was very (very!) glad to be proved wrong.

As mentioned by oatmeal, the scene where she was trying to get the cops attention and the air-plane scene were just immense, I also really enjoyed the bridal shower too :D

Up there with Sean of the Dead as being one of my favourite comedies ever.
 
GF dragged me along, was expecting Chris to be just a cameo but he was pretty much the male lead / co-star which was cool too see.
 
hilarious movie. i didn't laugh as hard at the dress-fitting scene as most others did (i enjoyed rose byrne and kristin wiig's part of the scene more than the bathroom), but the plane scene destroyed me. i could not physically laugh harder... "there's a colonial woman on the wing!"

very likable cast, and chris o'dowd is just the most lovely person on the planet. so glad to see him have such a huge role in this. he was amazing.

i don't normally buy new movies on dvd, but i think this will have to be an exception.
 
Can't believe I wasted money on this. And haven't on Captain America!
I believe I'm alone on this one but ladies alone can't drive comedies. Kristen Wiig tried, but she was the only funny lady of the pack and even so, she isn't that funny.
When John Hamm (he is funny buuut) has the best delivery on the movie, you know something is wrong.
 
You should be glad you saw this instead of Captain America. Captain America was probably the worst movie I've seen at the theater this year. So, so bad.
 
my friends wanted to go see every shit movie this year but they didn't want to go to see bridesmaids (it's for girls...) so i went to see this alone and it was easily better than all the other crap I've been watching all sumer long.

cpt. america, thor, xmen were all terrible.
 
cutmeamango said:
Can't believe I wasted money on this. And haven't on Captain America!
I believe I'm alone on this one but ladies alone can't drive comedies. Kristen Wiig tried, but she was the only funny lady of the pack and even so, she isn't that funny.
When John Hamm (he is funny buuut) has the best delivery on the movie, you know something is wrong.
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You have weird taste, sorry. Also I cannot remember anything particularly funny that John Hamm said.
 
LM4sure said:
You should be glad you saw this instead of Captain America. Captain America was probably the worst movie I've seen at the theater this year. So, so bad.
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Diprosalic said:
my friends wanted to go see every shit movie this year but they didn't want to go to see bridesmaids (it's for girls...) so i went to see this alone and it was easily better than all the other crap I've been watching all sumer long.

cpt. america, thor, xmen were all terrible.
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Wait whaaaat!? Isn't Cap supposed to be on par with Spiderman 2 and Hulk 1? Don't crush my world!

Gaaraz said:
You have weird taste, sorry. Also I cannot remember anything particularly funny that John Hamm said.
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Well Shaun of the Dead is one of your favourite comedy ever so I just dunno. :P

John Hamm stole all scenes! All scenes!
The sex scene faces, the can he do this tit grab, the I'm asking you to leave scene. The blow job proposal.
 
so my gf sold me on this with the line " its like hungover but with girls"

in the end she thought it was shit, i thought it was passable. Not really funny at any point though.
 
1) Shaun of the Dead is excellent
2) Captain sucked
3) This is not like Hangover except for the fact that they're both in the same genre
 
so they did just write a movie based on the Wilson Philips song? lol

movie was pretty bland except for Kristin Wiggs delivery of her lines. Anytime old SNL cast mem bers try to do a movie it usually is a trainwreck, but this wasn't that bad.

The whole cupcake store thing went absolutely nowhere. Like a lot of other things they introduce that ultimately are not developed or developed poorly. Why was that even a thing? Also, the butch NASA woman was apparently best friends with Annie? when did they ever reference that?

Glad I didn't pay money for it but I laughed a few times.
 
Teh Hamburglar said:
so they did just write a movie based on the Wilson Philips song? lol

movie was pretty bland except for Kristin Wiggs delivery of her lines. Anytime old SNL cast mem bers try to do a movie it usually is a trainwreck, but this wasn't that bad.

The whole cupcake store thing went absolutely nowhere. Like a lot of other things they introduce that ultimately are not developed or developed poorly. Why was that even a thing? Also, the butch NASA woman was apparently best friends with Annie? when did they ever reference that?

Glad I didn't pay money for it but I laughed a few times.
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I think the cupcake thing was a bit too drawn out but it helped to explain why Annie is so hopeless and more about why she is the way she is. "The butch NASA woman" felt like she grew close to Annie and was there for her when no one else was so she said that she has a best friend right there, they weren't actually best friends to start with.

The drama said of Bridesmaids could use a trim but the laughs were solid imo.
 
FFFUUUU Universal would do a sequel without Wiig: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bridesmaids-sequel-kristen-wiig-universal-277792
By every measure, Bridesmaids was a huge success story of 2011. The ensemble comedy, produced for about $32 million, grossed $288 million worldwide for hit-hungry Universal, made film stars out of Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy, and landed Golden Globe, SAG and PGA nominations, positioning it as a best-picture Oscar contender.

The mystery is why Universal has made so little progress on launching a Bridesmaids 2 -- and why the star of the film is refusing to do a reprise. "We aren't working on that," Wiig, who co-wrote the film with Annie Mumolo, tells The Hollywood Reporter. "Annie and I aren't planning a sequel. We are writing something else."

One factor may be that something went awry between Wiig and Universal. Sources say that some of the six principal cast members (Wiig, McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Ellie Kemper) were underwhelmed with the $100,000 bonus each received -- the sum struck some as low given the film's outsized success. Asked by THR whether she was offended by the dollar figure, Wiig declined comment.

With Wiig balking, Universal chief Ron Meyer took her to dinner in New York to see whether he could change her mind. He likely dangled an eight-figure payday before her, but the 38-year-old star held firm.

Instead, she has pursued smaller dramas: In addition to the Mumolo project, the Saturday Night Live actress next appears in the March dramedy Friends With Kids; stars opposite Annette Bening in the indie Imogene, which she also is producing; and this summer plans to shoot the drama The Comedian opposite Robert De Niro for director Sean Penn. She also is adapting the dramatic novel Clown Girl, which she hopes to direct.

Universal sources say the studio is willing to pursue another Bridesmaids without Wiig. "We are over the moon with the success of Bridesmaids, and if we do a sequel we want to get it right," a Universal rep tells THR. "We are talking to filmmakers now about concepts, and if the right one emerges, we'll move forward." The studio rep declines to elaborate on what elements it would deem essential -- whether, for example, original director Paul Feig would be involved -- but Universal is focused on McCarthy as a key player to get a sequel rolling. Among the projects the Emmy-winning actress has attached herself to is the Universal comedy ID Theft with Jason Bateman, and sources say other projects are brewing.
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Casp0r said:
... you're for Hollywood ripping the soul out of anything half decent by pumping out as many uninspired terrible sequels it can?
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Oh, sorry. I meant Fuck. This is a bad, bad idea.

rezuth said:
All I saw was money, what did I miss?
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Quote: "With Wiig balking, Universal chief Ron Meyer took her to dinner in New York to see whether he could change her mind. He likely dangled an eight-figure payday before her, but the 38-year-old star held firm."
 
Expendable. said:
Oh, sorry. I meant Fuck. This is a bad, bad idea.



Quote: "With Wiig balking, Universal chief Ron Meyer took her to dinner in New York to see whether he could change her mind. He likely dangled an eight-figure payday before her, but the 38-year-old star held firm."
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Right, I'm not actually from an English speaking country so maybe I'm misunderstanding something. Let me try and be clearer. I assumed that offer was only money and when I said my previous statement about pressure I meant more alone the lines of "We're going to do this with or without you" to try and convince her to join them for the sake of the movie/pride/quality etc.
 
rezuth said:
Right, I'm not actually from an English speaking country so maybe I'm misunderstanding something. Let me try and be clearer. I assumed that offer was only money and when I said my previous statement about pressure I meant more alone the lines of "We're going to do this with or without you" to try and convince her to join them for the sake of the movie/pride/quality etc.
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Ah, that could be the case! I feel like they are pretty far away from any sort of pre-production, much less a script so Wiig could come around after she tackles more interesting projects.
 
There's an awful lot of assumptions in that story.

Also funny how they never consider the possibility that Wiig might have reasons other than money to not make a sequel. But that's the trades for ya, narrow-minded business-oriented nonsense.
 
LTTP Bump.

I found the movie hilarious.. but I almost feel like the writers intended to the movie NOT to be how it was marketed.

This isn't "The Hangover for Women" in the slightest.

The Hangover is not a harsh critique of the stereotypical male.. Bridesmaids most certainly is.

It's more Mean Girls than The Hangover.. combined with I Love You Man.

It's a parody of Sex and the City on several aspects as well.. which in itself makes it a parody of the modern "empowered but extremely shallow" female stereotype that so many young women strive to fulfill.

I thought many of the "jokes".. or "funny situational comedy" scenes that so many people seem to love the film for weren't even that funny.. to me it's the overall theme that is hilarious, and how much it's making from of Sex and the City.. that "fuck buddy" guy and how she treated the "nice guy" was an EXACT parody of Sex and the City.. except in Sex and the City she ends up with the rich dickhead in the end..

Half of the movie was totally making fun of the "Porn for girls wedding scenes" stuff in movies like Sex and the City.. and it's totally making fun of similar aspects of "The Devil Wears Prada", etc.

It's a bash on shallow materialism, it's a bash on female relationships and how possessive they can be.

I mean.. holy shit.. the scene where they are walking through the airport all dressed up heading to Vegas?

ROFL.. that is so making fun of a large swath of women.... in kind of a nasty way.
 
Makoto said:
I'm sure the writers don't mind.
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I'm not saying they mind.. they have their marketing teams and they obviously didn't stop it from being billed as "The Hangover for Women."

But it REALLY wasn't that.

I'm sure others enjoyed it for the same reasons I did.

The Hangover is not a harsh critique of the modern male.. it's just a funny situational comedy movie.. it's not critiquing or really bothering to analyze the relationships between men... it's not a parody of popular male films or TV shows.. it's ALMOST a glorification of male sterotypes.

Sex and the City is "The Hangover for Women" more than Bridesmaids is.. and Bridesmaids is an obvious parody of sex and the city. I mean really.. that Fuckbuddy guy? They even found an actor who looks like "Big."

This is a movie for women who can't stand the "stereotypical woman".. The Hangover is not that, at all.
 
That's a funny scene, but how can it be improv? There's obviously not two cameras filming at the same time. Maybe one of the setups was a master and they came up with some of the other zingers for the other. The teen girl is funnier than Whig, so I'd imagine her comebacks are more scripted.

One of the things I really liked about the movie was that it didn't fall back on conventional tropes. I thought for sure that Whig was at the very least going to end up making the wedding cake for Maya Rudolph, and thought she'd reopen her bakery. It was very refreshing that they didn't go near those at all.
 
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