2 Time Film Excess Nominee:
Best Screenplay: Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig (lost to Rory Stewart Kinnear, Lynne Ramsay for We Need to Talk About Kevin)
Best Actress: Kristen Wiig (lost to Bérénice Bejo for The Artist)
+ Best Comedy of the Year
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| The attention-grabbing poster for Paul Feig's Bridesmaids |
Bridesmaids is a successful film about women that curse and can't figure stuff out, who shit and vomit and are volatile and confused and not just pretty and feminine.
More concretely, it is about a woman, who is getting married: And about her old, failed best friend Annie, who is getting sidetracked as her maid-of-honor for a new, more successful and beautiful society friend.
The method for the not few laughs that Bridesmaids delivers is exaggeration more than anything else. The characters and situations are larger-than-life, and so becomes the resulting hilarity.
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| Kristen Wiig in my favorite scene in the film, the drunk-on-an-airplane-scene |
Kristin Wiig (Girl Most Likely (2012)), who co-wrote the film with Annie Mumolo (This Is 40 (2012), actress), - they were Oscar-nominated for their script, - does a great job with Maya Rudolph (Away We Go (2009)) and Melissa McCarthy (Mike & Molly (2010-14)), - in her breakthrough role that also earned her an Oscar-nomination, - as the other two especially funny women in this refreshing, romantic comedy.
Rarely do we get a big comedy led by such funny women, and Bridesmaids is all the more ballsy (excuse the bad pun) because of its subversive, outrageous dialogs (like the subtle power play in the Brazilian restaurant scene) and its gross-out elements (like the following, notorious dress fitting scene.) Bridesmaids tops many 'male' comedies in wit, brazenness and vulgarity. - Kudos!
Paul Feig (Nurse Jackie (2009-10)) directed the hilarities and is continuing his focus on female-driven comedy: After his buddy cop comedy hit last year, The Heat, Feig is working on another McCarthy-headed actioner, Spy (2015), and then on a Reese Witherspoon-headed comedy entitled Wish List.
Related posts:
Paul Feig: The Heat (2013) or, Prissy and Offensive in Boston
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2011 in films - according to Film Excess
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| The female stars of Paul Feig's Bridesmaids. - You gotta love it |
Budget: 32.5 mil. $
Box office: 288.3 mil. $
= Huge hit and producer Judd Apatow's biggest commercial hit to date
What do you think of Bridesmaids and some of the other recent movies with Wiig and McCarthy?
Looking forward to Feig's coming comedies?
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