Judd Aptatow does it again as he's produced another slice of comedy gold. He has created fan favorites including Anchorman, 40 year old virgin and Knocked Up. Bridesmaids can proudly stand alongside those comedy classics. Kristein Wiig plays single girl Annie who is asked to be maid of honour for her best friends wedding. Annie soon realises she has a rival in Helen (Rose Byrne) who wants to take the role as made of honour and take over the wedding plans.
With the success of the Hangover movies it seemed inevitable that a so called female version would turn up sooner or later. This is a chick flick that certainly has a lot of 'balls' with Co-writer Kristein Wiig creating characters that can be relatable to the audience as well as being laugh out loud funny. Pretty much every character in this film is funny with special mention to John Hamm and Melissa Mcarthy. I'm a massive Mad Men fan and it's great to see John play a character that you wouldn't necessarily expect him to play. I'm also sure we will be seeing plenty more of Melissa in the future after her role as a fellow bridesmaid who steals pretty much every scene she's in. Each character has a side story which is great as you get to know more about Lillian's (Maya Rudolphs) friends and not just there to make the audience laugh (although they do this very well).
This film can do gross-out comedy but doesn't throw in humour for the sake of grossing the audience out. It makes the laughs relevant to the story and the building up of the characters. I feel it also appeals to males as the writings good enough to appeal to both sexes. It's a shame that the film loses some of it's charm during Annie's side story of dating a cop (Chris O'Dowd). The pace seems to slow down during this story line and feels more like a full on romance then gross-out comedy. This is the only thing that keeps this film from being comedy gold. But this is still a great comedy film that finally puts a female ensemble against their male counterparts. May just be the comedy film of 2011.
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