It's ironic to say that not since "Mean Girls" have I heard SO many women between the ages of eighteen and fifty raving about a movie. Ironic because that movie was a breakout for Tina Fey, who wrote it and starred in it and thereafter became a household name. "Bridesmaids" was written by her Saturday Night Live successor Kristen Wiig--the ONLY truly funny thing about SNL anymore and, like Tina, an example of how stunning, funny, and damn smart women over the age of 25 really are. I can only hope she'll garner as much attention, or also her own show.
Besides being just, well...hilarious, this movie is the single best commentary on adult singledom that I have ever, ever seen. Kristen's character is the solo among the marrieds and the coupleds, the one still trying to convince herself that she's fine "just being friends" with her lovers (a funny turn by John Hamm, to note) and that her best friend's impending nuptials don't bother her even in the slightest. She dumps on the nice guy, of course, and tells everyone off in all the wrong ways. Any woman worth her salt has been there, though--those moments when it's hard to see past your own despair over love. Kristen's character overcomes them slowly, realistically, with lots of bumps along the way. In other words, the way things really happen.
Go see it. It's a cultural movie moment because: it's the bachelorette movie that doesn't go to Vegas; it makes fun of rich people in all the right ways; the majority of the major female characters are over the age of 30; there's some crazy-funny Wilson Phillips nostalgia that will blow your mind; and the cutie Irish cop who fights for Kristen's affection will maybe give you all faith in the male race again (he did for me).
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