BRIDESMAIDS (R) Ebert: Users: You: Rate This Movie Right Now

movie reviews

Reviews Great Movies Answer Man People Commentary Festivals Oscars Glossary One-Minute Reviews Letters Roger Ebert's Journal Scanners Store

News Sports Business Entertainment Classifieds Columnists search BRIDESMAIDS (R) Ebert: Users: You: Rate this movie right now

GO Search powered by YAHOO!

You are not logged in.

Subscribe to weekly newsletter »

times & tickets in theaters

Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig and Ellie Kemper. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Fandango Search movie more current releases » showtimes and buy Bridesmaids tickets. one-minute movie reviews BY ROGER EBERT / May 11, 2011 still playing about us Three of my good female friends, who I could usually The Adjustment Bureau About the site » find overcoming hangovers cast & credits at their Saturday morning Arthur Atlas Shrugged Site FAQs » "Recovery Drunches" at Annie Kristen Wiig The Bang Bang Club Lillian Maya Rudolph Oxford's Pub, once made Battle: Los Angeles Contact us » pinpricks in their thumbs Helen Rose Byrne The Beaver and performed a ceremony Rita Wendi McLendon-Covey Bridesmaids Email the Movie becoming blood sisters. Annie's mom Jill Clayburgh Cave of Forgotten Dreams Answer Man » They were the only people I Ted Jon Hamm Certified Copy have actually known who Cold Weather The Conspirator could inspire a Judd Universal Pictures presents a film on sale now Apatow buddy movie, and Desert Flower directed by Paul Feig. Written by all three could do what not Drive Angry 3D Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig. all women do well, and that Even the Rain is perfectly tell a dirty joke. Running time: 128 minutes. Rated Everything Must Go R (for some strong sexuality and Fast Five Maybe I liked "Bridesmaids" language throughout). Forget Me Not in their honor. Paul Feig's Forks Over Knives The Greatest Movie Ever Sold new comedy, written by Printer-friendly » E-mail this to a friend » Hall Pass Kristen Wiig and Annie Hanna Mumolo, is about a group Henry's Crime Buy now » of women friends who are Hesher as unbehaved as the guys Hidden Love in "The Hangover." Don't I Am tell me "unbehaved" isn't a word. It is now. And Wiig is rather brilliant I Will Follow in her physical comedy as she flies to Vegas as part of her BFF's In a Better World bachelorette party; if it were not the wedding of her BFF, this trip Incendies would get her thrown out of the wedding. Her motto: "What happens Insidious in Vegas, starts on the plane." Ip Man 2 Jane Eyre Wiig plays Annie, whose Milwaukee bakery shop has just gone bust, Jumping the Broom Limitless Buy now » who rooms with a surpassingly peculiar British brother and sister, The Lincoln Lawyer and whose longtime friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), is getting Louder Than a Bomb married. Naturally, she expects to be maid of honor, but begins to Make Believe fear a rival in Helen (Rose Byrne), the rich and overconfident trophy Meek's Cutoff wife of the groom's boss. You see that can lead to trouble. Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today Of Gods and Men Helen is one of those people who at birth was placed in charge of Outside the Law everything for everyone. It's not that she's trying to steal Annie's Paul thunder, it's just that she can't comprehend that she isn't running the Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Poetry Buy now » wedding. This leads finally to Annie's explosion at a bizarre French- themed bridal shower with an item of pastry that would strike even Potiche an editor of the Guinness Book of World Records as, well, The Princess of Montpensier excessive. Putty Hill Queen of the Sun Queen to Play The movie does a good job of introducing a large cast and in Rango particular keeping all the members of the bridal party in play. They Red Riding Hood include Rita (Wendi McLendon-Covey), a mother of three adolescent Scre4m sons ("My house is covered in semen"), and (my favorite) Megan Something Borrowed (Melissa McCarthy), who has the sturdiness and the certainty of a Soul Surfer Buy now » fireplug. Source Code Stake Land Did I mention the movie was produced by Apatow? Love him or not, Strongman he's consistently involved with movies that connect with audiences, Super and "Bridesmaids" seems to be a more or less deliberate attempt to Take Me Home Tonight cross the Chick Flick with the Raunch Comedy. It definitively proves Thor that women are the equal of men in vulgarity, sexual frankness, lust, Trust Twelve Thirty vulnerability, overdrinking and insecurity. And it moves into areas not Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives available to men, for example the scene when they're all trying on Vidal Sassoon: The Movie Buy now » dresses at a bridal shop and the lunch they've just shared suddenly Water for Elephants reappears, if you get my drift. Win Win Your Highness Not everybody can do physical comedy. Wiig's behavior on the flight to Vegas would win the respect of Lucille Ball. I don't even want to more current releases » start describing what happens. In these day when you can get arrested on a plane for taking out your car keys, her behavior is a on dvd throwback to the good old days of airborne slapstick. new on dvd Yet the movie has a heart. It heals some wounds, restores some hurt Buy now » feelings, confesses some secrets, and in general, ends happily, which is just as well, because although there are many things Ip Man 2 (5/3) Blow Out (4/26) audiences will accept from women in a comedy, ending miserably is Somewhere (4/19) not one of them. That may be sexist, but there you are. White Material (4/12) Ricky (4/12) The Human Stain (4/12) Dead Man (4/12) Tron: Legacy (4/5) Tron (4/5) Buy now» BellTV Installed Free Jersey Girl (4/5) Up to 4 TV's installed free Up to www.skytecsat.com/belltvsurvey more new on dvd » coming on dvd Car and Home Audio Video Shop at our Online Store or Drop into True Grit (6/7) Peelaudio.ca more coming on dvd »

Live in Canada? great movies on dvd Buy now» We'll pay you $75 right now to complete a MakeExtraMoneyFrom.com Santa Sangre (1/25) Senso (2/22) Heart of Glass (3/23) Canada DVD Rental Guide We review all 14 Canadian DVD rental more great movies on dvd » Canada-DVD-Rental-Guide.com

Ads by Yahoo! Buy now»