SPOILERS AHEAD.

It’s true, I AM the only person in America who didn’t find this movie hysterically awesome.*

Yes, it WAS funny. Sometimes painfully so (as in laughing so hard your cheekbones hurt).

It was also really, really, REALLY STUPID and I think they made some really bad choices that made the movie nearly unwatchable to me (although, as I said, NO ONE ELSE seemed to mind at all). For example, I would have cut Every Single Thing to do with her roommates and living situation. None of those scenes were a) at all funny (gawd no) or b) at all connected to the “plot” such as it is.

Also: the only one way in which this is “Bridesmaids” plural is by including the other really dumb things like the “we all get food poisoning and puke/vomit/diarrhea into the dresses we are trying on” ridiculousness. This movie is really only about the one bridesmaid and I think eliminating all that stupidity would have been a better choice as well.

Sure, Jon Hamm and Melissa McCarthy were very good in their (unusual for them) roles. But both those roles really seemed like sketch comedy add-ons. Let’s throw in a really crass icky guy! Let’s have one of the girls be all butch and nasty but really have deep insights! That sounds good! (It was amazing they could make McCarthy look that unappealing, though, wasn’t it? She’s really quite a pretty girl.)

I have been listening to the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcasts lately and I was just SO disappointed to hear Linda Holmes talking about how this is a movie that finally shows how she and her friends actually relate! That girls have inside jokes just as much as boys do! Really? THIS is the movie where you see that? I saw a movie where girls only relate to each other when they are talking about their relationships with boys.

I was not a fan. But given how the rest of the world feels about this? You probably will be.

*Actually a couple people I talked to this weekend also said they found a lot of it disappointing. But that was a month after I had seen this movie and been the only one with a negative opinion so far. So for the sake of this review, that conversation hasn’t happened yet. 😉

Yes, it is June and I am posting about movies I saw as far back as March. Trying to get caught up this weekend! We shall see…

There are two movies here. There is a sweet, intelligent comedy saying some interesting things and exploring characters you might like to see more of. And then there is the really, really stupid movie about the stupidest dumb jokes you’ve ever heard and some of the worst physical comedy you’ve ever seen onscreen.

The sweet intelligent comedy is completely dragged down and destroyed by the stupid not-funny parts and unless you are into “setting your fart on fire” (literally) comedy, you wil find yourself very disappointed by what could have been but wasn’t.

They could have cut John C. Reilly’s entire part and that would immediately make this movie far more enjoyable and better-written.

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Not a smart or well-written comedy. Not a movie that makes much sense.

If you think the stars are pretty people, you will have that to enjoy when they are onscreen.

But it’s one of those movies that makes you regret the fact that “rom com” and “chick flick” have become things producers try to make, because they fall far, far, far, far short here of what those types of movies could, and should, be.

But you should have known all that from the previews. I certainly did. I just wanted to look at pretty people for a couple hours, so I went anyway. 🙂 There’s no accounting for it.

Yes, it is June and I am posting about movies I saw as far back as February. Trying to get caught up this weekend! We shall see…

This is a bad movie in many, MANY ways, but perhaps worst of all in its timing. These are not the people to feel sorry for in a depression / recession / whatever this is. Some idiot who makes six figures but spends so much that when he’s out of work, he is losing his house within three months? There are honest, hard-working, NON-slimeballs out there who’ve been laid off solely due to the economy and looking for jobs for forever and I don’t know WHO the producers of this movie thought could POSSIBLY have been an audience for this. But the fact that they have all gone off and started a new business together by the end? COME ON.

Almost ALL the characters in this movie are complete jerks. I love you, Ben Affleck, for giving me The Town but whatever made you think this movie was a good choice? Not only is it an ill-timed movie about jerks but your character is the biggest jerk of all. His KID is more in tune with the reality of the situation and he completely blows him off.

Also some of the non-Boston actors in this movie have The Most Ridiculous Overwrought Boston Accents you have ever heard (Kevin Costner, Rosemarie DeWitt, I’m looking at you two in particular).

The only thing I unequivocally liked about this movie was Rosemarie DeWitt’s wardrobe. (Mostly jeans, cute boots, snug sweaters.) That is IT.

Tommy Lee Jones played the most interesting character…but being the most interesting of this bunch is not saying much.

Bad, bad, and hey, bad.

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The people who made this movie seemed to have missed a very important element here: ladies do not go to Jason Statham movies to see him wearing a buttoned-up cardigan the entire time. He is shirtless once, maybe twice, IN THE ENTIRE MOVIE.

They so missed the boat on that one.

Some fun fight scenes. But you know, it’s not his best movie. (I recommend The Bank Job over all others, of course.)

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This wasn’t much of a movie, I was really surprised to see it up for awards. Sure, Angelina was pretty and Depp played befuddled nicely… But the twist at the end was SO OBVIOUS and there wasn’t all that much that was very interesting about it. I’d see it for free, on a plane maybe. But I wouldn’t go out of my way. I certainly wouldn’t pay $ for the DVD.

Yes, it is June and I am posting about movies I saw as far back as January. Trying to get caught up this weekend! We shall see…

I had just watched 1-6 on DVD as I had only seen the first couple long ago… I thought this was by far the best film. But it is also the one I wasn’t quilting through the watching of, so… I liked when they were out camping on their own.

Some derivative moments though. Maybe it’s the movies moreso than the book, but there were so many times when all I could think about was Lord of the Rings.

I still prefer the Pullman books (His Dark Materials trilogy) to these, as I have all along– especially after watching these movies. These are entertaining, but seem much more formulaic to me and the story/ideas/execution seem less original than Pullman.