Audio Reviews - Bridesmaids - Audio Review

Picked as her best friend's maid of honor, lovelorn and broke Annie looks to bluff her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals with an oddball group of bridesmaids.

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  March 07, 2012 at 5:16 PM, said ...

  I totally agree with Korey, Cyrus and Co-Host on this one. This movie just wasn't good AT all. Yet people keep making this flagship achievement with a film that really isn't very good. When guys make fart jokes and poop jokes they get yelled at for using low brow humor. These people make an entire movie of those jokes and it's considered a theatrical revolution. The Hell man!

• February 08, 2012 at 6:09 PM, said ...

  U claim Annie's unlikable, yet I like her because she felt real. I'm a dude, and all i know is that if my life went the way her's did, I would be a dick too! This movie was hilarious and I liked it better than the Hangover. High full price.  

  
  
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  January 08, 2012 at 8:53 PM, bigcookie83 said ...

  I just watched this movie at a friends house and she wanted to watch all the extended scenes, bloopers, deleted scenes etc. After watching those I realized that this movie is 90% ad libbed with a loose basis on a plot. There were a bunch of funny moments that I laughed out loud at, but in the end I didn't care so much about the characters themselves. Sad Days, (especially since this movie was really hyped up by my friends)

• December 29, 2011 at 9:24 PM, said ...

  I have listened to every audio review available on this site and can i just say this one is one of the best. 
  Cyrus & CoHost couldn't have said it better, sorry Leon. "the structure" my ass nothing forgives the terrible editing in this movie. There was a scene on the airplane where the guys laughs on camera. I couldn't believe I was seeing such bad editing on a dvd. (i finally was forced to watch this crappy movie by family)
  
  Quote of the review Co Host 3000: "but with some of those jokes...those laughs turned to shrieks."
  
  Atta boy Chris O'Dowd; representing the IT crowd. And to the snide at Death Proof that dialogue was incredible it is just plain moronic to compare a writer like QT's work to this some ole bullshit.  

  
  
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  October 08, 2011 at 9:02 PM, said ...

  Leon, don't let these guys give you a hard time. I agree with your viewpoints on this one, finding the character of Annie to be interesting for her flaws, as opposed to the sort of Cinderella-type female lead that often appears in romantic comedies. I think further that you fellows had your perceptions tainted by the trailers, advance publicity, and editing re-cuts. I had no knowledge of any of those things going into this movie, and I had an enjoyable time. Maybe this movie was sold poorly and was doomed to miss audience expectations. I had no expectations.

   

  Korey and Cyrus had some valid points to make, however. The movie did drag out its jokes too long in places, and the scene in the airplane went on way too long given the weak material in the scene. The parts where Annie was calling the flight attendant "Stove" instead of "Steve" and asking him "What kind of a name is that? Are you an appliance?" and raving about seeing a colonial woman churning butter on the wing of the plane instead of seeing gremlins should have been cut out of the movie.

   

  I would give this a RENTAL, but I watched it as a rental. There's nothing here that justifies seeing this on a big screeen, unless of course you're a big Wilson-Phillips fan. Having said that, I have seen both the theatrical cut of this movie and the "Unrated Version" that's available on the DVD. If you rent this movie, relax, enjoy yourself, but stick with the theatrical cut. "Unrated" usually means the addition of objectionable material, so for a gross-out comedy like this, you may be tempted to view that version, thinking you'll get the material the MPAA doesn't want you to see. That isn't the case here. This unrated version doesn't add much other than more meandering and a scenes that isn't particularly gross, dumb, or funny to begin with.

• July 03, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Ciarán said ...

  I would have to say a High Matinee, maybe a Full Price. I laughed constantly throughout, but I agree the pacing of it was off with some scenes just being too long. Maybe it was just a result of a rushed editing job though if what you say about the various cuts is true. I do think most of Cyrus, Korey and Co-Host's criticisms are kind of invalid otherwise. I mean, the fact that it's been so long since you saw it probably contributed to your forgetting bits and pieces of plot etc. but I agree with bloody_black_valentine down below in that you're missing things that were explained in the film. What Wiig's character comes down to is Annie lost her business and boyfriend before the film and now just lets life kick her, and actively works against herself, as some sort of punishment for her perceived failure. Everything she does to hurt herself (essentially everything she does in the first three quarters), like running away from nice, sweet Rhodes, shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone watching the film.

   

  And I think the idea that they should have gone to Vegas and turned the film into a literal Hangover for women is terrible. What's the point of seeing the same story twice with some superficial changes. Didn't you learn your lesson from The Hangover Part 2??

  
  
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  July 02, 2011 at 8:19 AM, said ...

  I know you guys have gotten a lot of flak already for this so I'll keep this short. I made an account and am posting this comment just to tell you guys that not every damn thing has to be completely realistic. So she started spewing fruedian...sentences in the middle of her job. So she freaks out a bit more at the wedding than any normal person. Wiig is just throwing that snl over exaggerated comedy out there, and sometimes its works. The true hilarity for me came when Wiig interacted with her rival and when she sat around and talked with her best friend. She IS a bit psychotic, but you would have to understand the fear she has that this rival, who IS being a bitch and trying to steal her friend while making her look bad, may be taking her last good connection. Its not about the wedding, but the fact that the separation would hurt her more than anything, but by the end she realizes she is stronger than all that.

• June 24, 2011 at 11:29 PM, said ...

  Now I don't love this movie, it shouldn't present itself at the female hangover when this is just a romantic comedy.  But you guys said some thing's that weren't true about this movie.  Now lemme google some name so this is more organized.

   

  Like Helen (the rich girl) "out of no where" getting to plan the wedding.  The main character Annie had been under so much stress and messing things up lately so her best friend Lillian wanted to pass on the responsibility.  Annie needed to stop being a jealous bitch and just tell her best friend her feelings from the start, but then no movie.

   

  Also about Annie being totally unlikable, what's so unlikable about fighting to keep one's spot as best friend, about being dejected when someone you love replaces you with another.  Then there's her bakery business going down.  With how irresponsible she is it probably had to relate to her business closing, but that couldn't be all.  Also from the sounds of it, people did come to her bakery and loved her cakes, like the cop mentioned.  Now that's not enough to excuse her for the horrible bitch she acts like, but it's enough to know there is somewhat of a good person inside and that they're worth a second chance.  Fuck her for stay hanging around with that douche bag, that's 100% her fault, try dating next time bitch.

   

  Lillian was very nice throughout the whole movie, she didn't hold a grudge when Annie's mistake in food lead to shit in her wedding dress in public.  She even handled it quite well when Annie point blank ruined her bachelorette party.  A fight totally avoidable, there were so many better options but I won't cramp this comment with that nonsense.

   

  Some better criticism is their waste in characters.  Like where the hell did Rita (child hating mother) and Becca (docile housewife) suddenly go?  They get high and randomly makeout "ohhh, look how crazy we are" and we don't see them for the rest of the movie.

  Why not have a funny revenge scene on the asshole Annie was sleeping with.

  What the hell was the deal with not going to Vegas.

  
  
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  June 07, 2011 at 2:52 AM, said ...

  I did enjoy this movie, but not as much as I expected to because there were very few scenes in which we really see the bridesmaids interact with each other beyond a truly superficial level (i.e., farting, complaining about adolescent boys staining everything with semen, etc.). In fact, the only TRULY dynamic characters are Kristen Wiig and Rose Byrne. Sure many of the other characters show a range of emotions, but we only see changes in those two characters, making the other characters appear as though their only purpose is to help the plot move along (it is, after all, called "Bridesmaids," not "Maid of Honor, Competitive Bridesmaid, and Bride").

   

  HOWEVER, I think that Wiig's character was largely misunderstood. I agree with Kathleen; Wiig is in limbo for most of the movie, mourning the loss of her business, sleeping with a total douche who doesn't appreciate her (played exceptionally well by Jon Hamm, I might add), and working a job she absolutely hates. I do not agree that she was a bad friend who was trying to plan a "Walmart wedding" because of her financial situation (although I laughed at the comment). Wiig's character's ideas for both the shower and the bachelorette party were based on things that she KNEW her best friend loved (having the bachelorette at her parents' lake house because that was her favorite place when she was a child, or having a Paris-themed bridal shower because she had always wanted to go there).

   

  I thought Paul Feig successfully captured the competitiveness, jealousy, and rivalry between women (because we ARE, and it's something not so often depicted in films -- at least not outside of a romantic context), and loneliness in love.

   

  Although it could've been funnier, it was a movie about friendship that actually squeezed a few tears out of me (and I NEVER cry during movies). It showed that friendships between women can last, and that we are capable of forgiving people who hurt us if we love them. I thought of my best friend (the best person I know), and I cried like a baby. Goddamnit.

• May 31, 2011 at 11:23 PM, said ...

  You guys (except for Leon - hooray for Leon!) completely missed the point of the movie. Maybe it's because you are guys, but you seemed to misinterpret nearly everything in the movie. The Kristen Wiig character is SUPPOSED to act like a bitch, but she's not a real bitch. She's hit bottom and she's acting like she has nothing left to lose and is acting out her despair by being bitch. But she learns that she has to take responsibility and pull herself up and stop blaming everyone but herself. We ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO LIKE HER when she acts like a bitch, but to understand where she's coming from. I loved how the movie didn't hold back on the bitchiness but totally owned it with all its ugly flaws. Also, the Melissa McCarthy character is NOT A FOOL AT ALL but is VERY SMART and very admirable. That you missed it is unbelievable to me. I loved how the friendship in the movie was very believable and I loved how the huge gap between rich and poor is very real, unlike in trash like Sex and the City 2.

  But apparently, this movie just doesn't appeal to you. To each his own.

  
  
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  May 29, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Cory Newton said ...

  I just saw this movie after listening to your reviews and I 100 percent have to disagree with your review, I enjoyed this movie alot. I think you got the Kristen Wiig character wrong, she was in my opinion the most sympathetic character in the movie, she was sleeping with a Jerk, her dream business was forced to close because of the economy, she was working a shitty job that she hated, and now her best friend was getting married and she felt that she was being replace by a new better looking rich friend that was able to afford to do things she could not, a new Friends that at every turn tried to implant herself as the better alternative. Lillian the character played by Maya Rudolph even begins to be drawing into this world of glamor and expensive things and loses her sense of self, in your review you say that the Kristen Wiig character is the childhood friend that you leave behind which is so wrong, she is the friend that you keep because she know the real you, and has seen you at your best and worse and never left your side.

• May 26, 2011 at 8:47 PM, said ...

  This is the first time I've ever disagreed with you guys. I loved this movie! I was laughing almost throughout the entire movie, and so was everybody in the theater! I swear it's not just a movie for women, because there were plenty of guys in the theater who were cracking up just as much as me and my friends. I think it's a little unfair to compare it to The Hangover, because I don't think it was written to be the female Hangover, that's just what people are calling it. I agree that there wasn't a lot of camaraderie among the bridesmaids, but that didn't make the movie bad. I also agree that Kristen Wiig's character goes beyond flawed to being awful, but she was still hilarious. And I'm not going to lie, I hated the scene where they were trying on dresses and throwing up.

   

  Whether you like this movie or not has nothing to do with whether you're man or a woman. I think what made the movie was all the painfully awkward parts, and you either like that kind of humor or you don't. I definitely think this is a full price movie.

  
  
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  May 26, 2011 at 3:38 AM, kyle flaharty said ...

  And noww... the fawt joke.

• May 22, 2011 at 4:14 PM, said ...

  You guys rock! I'm never listening to Rotten Tomatoes again. 89% fresh?! This was easily the worst movie I have ever been to. I'm so glad I've already forgotten what happened in it because it deserves to never be seen again. I can't believe that people actually spent time to make this crap. And why do people think this movie was so original? Was it because they've never seen women cuss in movies before? It was just sticking in every cheesy chick-flick plot device to make it seem like it there was something present. Ugh, I was ready to leave in the first 5 minutes. I'm not watching anything made by Universal Studios for a while if they allowed such half-assed projects to be made.
  

  
  
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  May 21, 2011 at 2:43 AM, said ...

  I think what made this movie intolerable is Kristen Wiig's uncanny ability to even make the audience feel awkward.  I never really started laughing at any of the three main women, but I believe Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper, and Wendi McLendon-Covey were hilarious.  Many likened this movie to a female version of the hangover, but I feel that they didn't aim at men AT ALL!  Where as the hangover was a unisex movie in which most everyone I know (Male and Female alike) enjoyed the HELL out of that movie!  I enjoyed such movies as: John Tucker Must Die, When In Rome, etc. but this movie just rubbed me all the wrong ways.  And to top it off is that Wiig co-wrote this screenplay, and you can tell that she wrote it to make it go WITH her awkward personality.  I honestly couldn't agree with the guys more on this movie.

• May 20, 2011 at 6:13 AM, said ...

  The reason the guys think Melissa McCarthy is attractive (even though she's a big girl) is that she's the cousin of Jenny McCarthy.  Yeah THAT Jenny McCarthy (actress and former Playmate of the Year).  Guess they have some good genes.

   

  Still won't see this movie since I knew it would suck.

  
  
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  May 18, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Nedan said ...

  You did say that every year Leon picks one movie that you all hate to latch on to and decide that he likes.

• May 18, 2011 at 6:22 PM, turtle said ...

  this movie SUCKS!!!

   

  
  
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  May 18, 2011 at 7:43 AM, ZPowers said ...

  Doek Knight: I agree. I thought initially I'd be really forgettable after a couple days, but it did stick with me more than I thought. In fact, I lean low Full Price now. But it's also partially because I'm kind of bewildered the rating was so low from these guys after having some sense of how they review and what they like. The more I think about it, a consensus of Rental I could believe, but that Some Ol Bullshit is kind of surprising. I'm not angry or criticizing, just surprised.

• May 18, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Vee Vee de la Nuit said ...

  Okay, I watched it. LOL I can't believe you guys hated it. I can only assume it was because you're not comfortable with girls being real - ie) you're not really into watching unfuckable girls be unfuckable in movies. Which is sad, but hey, you'll like Transformers 3 - Victoria Secret Model #48 posing and preening for no reason on the big screen while robots blow shit up. As far as roles for girls go that's probably more your speed lol.

  
  
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  May 17, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Mark Hazleton Jr. said ...

  I was thinking the other day "well maybe after a few days this movie will be completely forgettable"...I was wrong...I still remember all the funny parts and actually smile just thinking of them. I will say that this is probably the funniest-flawed movie in a while. I actually admire a movie that has some things wrong but manages to be completely memorable and forgiving.

  Even when Annie flips out at the bridal shower...I accidently said out loud "oh shit!"...because it even made me feel awkward which is actually a good thing.

  TRUST ME...I'm not coming down on Spill for their opinions...if they didn't laugh, I do feel bad but atleast they didn't pay for it lol. I paid a matinee price and would have been totally satisfied w/ a full price.

  This is right after seeing Thor a week earlier...I would expect a "bridesmaids" story to be almost embarassing to watch...hell no, it made me laugh and smile most of the time, and felt a sense of relief that not all "chick flicks" have to suck...in fact they can be really great if they try hard enough.

  I guess my 1st comments were so different than this 1 because I was just truly shocked that some of you...ok most of you gave it "some ole' bullshit"....NOT because of Rotten Tomatoes, I never fully expect your reviews to be similar...it was just the fact that THIS is so much better and more clever than other female comedies, that after coming home from seeing it, the 1st thing I did was listen to this review and I was truly surprised not to atleast hear 1 Matinee...or atleast all rentals, but once I heard 2 'some ol' bullshits' pop up, I was just like "wow, that is a pretty big surprise." I know Leon atleast laughed...and Korey said "to some people it will be a rental or matinee" which was good atleast...but I do agree w/ what some people are saying about Wiig's character...both sides.

  Yes, she was a bit....crazy and stupid at times, but it was more realistic than other females in movies. She is being used...she lost her dream job...she has to compete w/ some rich bitch who is an attention whore...which then makes Annie fighting for her friend's respect, at the same time having to work at some shitty job which is the ONLY place she can take out her frustration until the officer becomes someone she can relate to and open up to.

  PLUS its not like ended where EVERYTHING Is perfect, she gets married too, she finally gets rid of her shitbox car, gets her dream job up and running again....no....she just (SPOILER****) attends the wedding, realizes her mistakes, and gets a 2nd chance w/ the guy she was meant to be with. Nothing wrong w/ that. It showed that she still is far from perfect, but making changes that will push her life into a better place.

  OK...OK...once again, I meant to keep this very short and I'm typing a novel here.

  Basically I'm just saying, I still respect your opinions...and obviously this site is still the most viewed and listened to on my PC...and I actually love disagreeing with you guys sometimes...most other movies I almost 100% agree and I can't help it...its just so honest. I was just totally surprised by this one...only because I thought there would be SOME credit for this movie..If I was in a crowded screening of this, and there was a guy next to me that didn't laugh once...not even once (as Cyrus claims), I would have actually assumed he had a REALLY bad day, and couldn't help but feel upset. To the point he couldn't find anything uplifting or humorous.

  At my pretty crowded showing, men, women, old, young all laughed more than any other movie I've seen this year and past fall. And at those awkward moments mentioned...i could even hear "omg"s while I was saying "oh shit!".

  ***and people, PLEASE dont take this as some rant where everyone responds by saying some stupid shit like "leave them alone its their opinions" because then I'll have to claim you as a dumbass who didn't even read more than 2 words of my comments, otherwise you would understand how much I respect their opinions and reviews...at that point, you will be like those other assholes on here that try to claim them as "racists" or "men who don't respect women"....so if you DO decide to reply to my comment, please READ it first...dont be an idiot.

• May 16, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Derek Burgett said ...

  Im with the spill crew this time. It was just not the right comedy for me. they dragged out some of the jokes way too long and contrary to popular belief I do think they were going for a hangover for women. hence the name!!!!!

  
  
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  May 16, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Kyle Roger said ...

  just have to add, yeah, this movie was not bad.  Kristen Wiig was awesome and really came out of her shell.

• May 16, 2011 at 5:06 AM, ZPowers said ...

  My post should have said "it was NOT a Some Ol Bullshit level flaw". Obviously, since I gave it a high Matinee.

  
  
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  May 16, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Juan said ...

  I agree with Nate. It seems like you guys all have the same taste in movies especially for comedies. I really feel like if 90% of critics can like a movie and all four of you guys agree it's less than average something is wrong

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