Bridesmaids is a knife in the back of Comedy.
It’s about a woman named Annie (Kristen Wiig) whose best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph) has just been proposed to by her boyfriend. Annie is dubbed the Maid of Honor and the two and a group of Lillian’s friends get ready for the wedding. Specifically, the movie follows Annie and her life as she copes with her job, her housing, her mom, her love life and the fact that her best friend is getting married.
I. Hate. Kristen Wiig. I have always found her style of humor to be cancerous. All she does is rambling on and on in a monotone voice, praying that the audience finds something she says funny, or at least laughs at the fact that she’s gone on for so long. I have never done so. She is so unbelievably funny, and she is this movie. She also randomly starts singing, and I guess that’s supposed to be funny. But it’s not. It’s just annoying and makes me want to bash my skull in with the closest heavy object. Sorry, I’m just not really a fan.
It’s not just Wiig that I can’t stand about this movie. The entire film is just a hateful, spiteful, mean-spirited experience. Nearly everything that happens in this movie makes me feel like chewing on a cardboard box covered in tin foil. I seriously do not understand how people are enjoying this. Scenes just drag on for so long. I swear, there are five straight minutes of two girls fighting over a microphone, and not a second of it is even remotely funny. The entire movie is like this. It especially goes overboard when they’re on a plane, which lasts for about ten, maybe fifteen minutes. It feel like half an hour.
Annie is a terrible, selfish character and one of the most unlikable I’ve ever seen in a movie. She’s incredibly jealous of a character named Helen (Rose Byrne) who we’re never given a reason to hate. In fact, she’s a pretty nice person. I mean I like her a hell of a lot more than the main character. She’s also a complete jerk to a guy she meets, a cop named Rhodes (Chris O’Dowd), who also seems like a really nice guy. Everything he does in this movie, such as not wanting to be around Annie, is completely justified after the horrible way she treats him. I never felt like the movie didn’t want me to like her, so as far as I can tell she’s just a really awful person that the audience is supposed to relate with, or something. She has serious mental problems that are played up for laughs, like we’re supposed to laugh along with her instead of weep for her poor, abused friends.
I really haven’t even scratched the surface on all the reasons this movie enrages me. It tries way too hard to be offensive and "adult" when all it does is come off as being extremely immature. Everything it does is the complete opposite of funny. There was one moment, one hour and five minutes into the movie, where I laughed. And that’s the only time I laughed in the entire movie. The rest of it I just sat there keeping myself from scratching my eyes out. The way this movie ends, the very last scene is one of the most anger-inducing moments of any movie I’ve seen in years. I. Freaking. Hate. This. Movie.
Final Verdict: 