Seen on October 20th, 2011
Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, creates chaos right before the big wedding. [imdb]
Nominated for 2 Oscars:
Best Supporting Actress: Melissa McCarthy
Best Original Screenplay
It needs to be said that I liked this more than I liked The Hangover, I thought it was very funny in a silly way, and it's the kind of movie that I recommend to everyone - because everyone seems to enjoy it. I rarely laugh while watching a film, and this definitely had me smiling and laughing from start to ending.
Oscar got it right with the 2 nominations: Melissa McCarthy is my favorite of the Supporting Actress line-up, she is so damn funny and makes those crazy lines into classic quotes; her character introduction is simply fantastic. She'd get my vote. Bridesmaids was lucky that this year's Original Screenplay category was quite weak, because it secured a nomination early on; I'm not saying it doesn't deserve it, I actually prefer it to Artist or Midnight in Paris, just that Oscar doesn't tend to recognize this type of writing. And I'm happy it did this time: the film is one funny scene after another, with the kind of jokes that I like.
My rating for the film: 7.5/10. It can be easily described as a silly comedy that's not to be taken serious, but I've enjoyed it a lot.
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I love this movie. I liked The Hangover as well. McCarthy is so great and I'm really happy about her though my favorite is rather Octavia.
ReplyDeleteIn a movie magazine I buy, this was selected as the 10th worst film of 2011. But they also said Maggie Gyllenhaal should have won over Mo'Nique (why do I keep buying it?).
Kinda spotty, but then comedy isn't really my thing, when it focussed on the character bits it worked really well.
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