Reviews

Whether it's "Step Brothers," "I Love You, Man" or "Borat," guys have laughed long and loudest over the last decade in cinema. So much so that they have spawned a new epithet, the "bromance," while their wives and girlfriends have mostly looked on from the sidelines.

"Bridesmaids" does something to redress that imbalance.

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If "Bridesmaids" isn't the funniest film of the year, we're in for a treat. The bar has been raised.

By Tom Charity, from CNN

"Bridesmaids" has other things going for it, including some fresh Wisconsin locations, a not-unbearable romantic subplot and a good soundtrack. But audiences should be warned — this is a raunchy comedy, not a cute little rom-com. (In fact, almost as if to sound the alarm early, the movie starts with a long scene of comically graphic sex.)

It's not a movie for people looking for a decorous night at the movies. It is a film, though, for folks eager for some good dirty jokes, some refreshingly real female characters — and, just maybe, a new comic voice.

By Stephen Whitty, from The Star-Ledger

I love how the women of Bridesmaids — direct descendants of the neurotics in the black comedies of Nicole Holofcener (Please Give) and Tamara Jenkins (The Savages) — take ownership of female aggression and competition, of our radical insecurities and the predicaments of being female in a post-feminist world. I love how the movie walks its crazy line between satire and realist drama. Most of all, I love seeing a bunch of talented female performers come together to do physical comedy their way.

By Ella Taylor, from NPR