# Did not like Bridesmaids **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 25, 2012, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585 "2012-01-25T06:36:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/21 "2012-01-25T20:50:25Z")
I thought it was just OK. It certainly did not live up to the hype of being a Hangover starring women. Hangover 2, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/22 "2012-01-25T21:18:06Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Oh, my teenage daughter loved the British brother and sister roommates of the main character, thought they were hysterical. They were quite good. Bits I liked: -Wiig trying to be enthusiastic about sex…and failing. -Wiig pretending not to be sick (“Jordan almonds? Yum”)…and failing. -Wiig trying not to be bitter to jewelry store customers…and failing. -Wiig and the “bad guy” woman making passive-aggressive snippy comments to each other. I wasn’t that crazy about Melissa McCarthy; I thought her character was a bit too broad. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/23 "2012-01-25T21:25:05Z")
I forgot Jon Hamm was in the movie. I enjoyed his role. I would not have guessed he could make himself unappealing. I, too, liked the Jordan Almonds moment. ---
**Author:** ![amaguri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@amaguri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amaguri)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/24 "2012-01-25T21:25:43Z")
I loved it. -shrug- I thought it was funny and ultimately sweet, which is an unusual and appealing combination. That said, I really disliked The Hangover, so I guess I’m just an oddball! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/25 "2012-01-25T21:38:39Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > So is it threadshitting if I say I liked it? Leave it to you to drop some punch in the turd-bowl. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/26 "2012-01-25T21:44:40Z")
> [@phreesh](#): > > …not a lot of forward momentum. Rented it to watch with my wife. We observed plenty of forward motion… of our heads, toward our laps. We got bored and gave up about a third of the way through. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/27 "2012-01-26T01:19:32Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > Rented it to watch with my wife. We observed plenty of forward motion… of our heads, toward our laps. We got bored and gave up about a third of the way through. I agree. It was that bad. It was embarrassingly bad. ETA: I was going to type more, but for some reason this just auto-posted. ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/28 "2012-01-26T01:31:57Z")
Is there a funnier movie written by and starring women? I thought it was very funny. Good for them getting their script the AA nom. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/29 "2012-01-26T02:08:23Z")
I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. I took the wife to see it. I figured I owed her for dragging her to movies like Battle: LA and Source Code. Could have been a lot worse… ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/30 "2012-01-26T02:27:55Z")
I saw it (with girlfriends) long before the hype hit and we loved it. My daughter hated it because she saw it with her boyfriend. In the middle of him laughing his head off during the airplane part, he caught her crying. And has still not stopped teasing her. She says she felt so bad for Wiig. She was trying so hard to keep her friend and her life was shit. ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/31 "2012-01-26T02:35:51Z")
> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#): > > I’m one of the few who found “The Hangover” too mean-spirited to be funny. So a female Hangover is not appealing. > So far I’ve found more reasons NOT to watch it than to watch it (Diarhea attack at the dress shop? Really? not gonna watch. Kristin Wiig who I’m sick to death of from too many horrid SNL skits? No). > So - are there any good reasons to see Bridesmaids? I went to see it with 2 friends, one thought it hysterical, the other hated it. I thought it was somewhat amusing. I didn’t think it was particularly well acted and found the main character to be annoying and whiny. The fact that they had people I am used to seeing on TV may have influanced me but I tought it was very Made for TV quality. I would rent it for $1.00 from Redbox but that is it. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/32 "2012-01-26T05:59:30Z")
I liked it. The parts some posters call “uncomfortable?”…I loved. On another thread, in a different time, I said that I just may be a 12 year old boy in a parallel universe. Maya Rudolph sinking to her knees in the middle of the street in a wedding dress…I’ve lived a lot of uncomfortable moments. And they were hysterical. The friendship/boyfriend parts I considered “soft porn-like,” as opposed to hard-core funny. Necessary for those who need a redeeming factor. Yes, I like Andrew Dice Clay. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/33 "2012-01-26T15:04:30Z")
We rented it and got through about 20 minutes before giving up. I think it was the scene with Jill Clayburgh cursing like a sailor that was as far as we got. We thought _The Hangover_ was just OK, but at least we watched the whole thing. The humor in this movie just did not resonate with us. Also, I’ve never liked Maya Rudolph for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/34 "2012-01-26T16:30:40Z")
re Hobostew’s comment “Is there a funnier movie written by and starring women?” - I’m not going to lower my standards just cause it’s women. I’m a feminist not a female-ist. Just because a book or a movie is written by a woman doesn’t give a free pass from me. same for blacks, if you see what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/35 "2012-01-26T19:13:17Z")
I wasn’t referring that in a “lower your standards” sense, I was referring to that as a “that’s quite an achievement” sense. Its a well made comedy - the jokes are sharp, Kirstin Wiig’s delivery and comic timing are high-quality (like when Jon Hamm says “Can your other boyfriend do… THIS” and starts rubbing her boob, she pauses and stutters perfectly before she replies “Yeah, probably.” She has dozen’s of little touches like that in the movie that may seem easy but are not), and the fact that it is by women raises the degree of difficulty IMO. It is well deserving of the screenplay nom. ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/36 "2012-01-27T01:52:24Z")
> [@HoboStew](#): > > the fact that it is by women raises the degree of difficulty IMO Why? ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/37 "2012-01-27T01:55:43Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > She says she felt so bad for Wiig. She was trying so hard to keep her friend and her life was shit. Same here. I like Wiig, and I don’t mind gross-out humor. But the whole situation with Wiig’s character was just sad, and it was in no way conducive for me to laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/38 "2012-01-27T03:55:03Z")
McCarthy was brilliant. The grossout humor was…surprise…gross (although I liked the bride just giving up in the street - that is the way to use gross subject matter without actually _being_ gross.) The rest was better than most comedies in general, which mostly blow. Broad comedy is so hard to do well, evidently. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/39 "2012-01-27T05:17:09Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I don’t even think I smirked. I like low-brow humour fine, but this was nasty, backstabbing, one-upmanship, shitty, uncomfortable humour. > > Not my kind of movie. Yup - and everyone apart from the fat girl was really horrible to each other. And even she sexually harassed the air marshal in a way that would have been scandalous had she been male. There were a couple of funny bits, and I liked the romance with the cop - though that’s partly because he’s great on The IT Crowd, so I was predisposed to like him - but the overall movie left me thinking ‘wow, life really i shit.’ ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585/40 "2012-01-27T11:45:15Z")
> [@Polerius](#): > > Why? Because women are stupid. (Is this your first day on the internets?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-not-like-bridesmaids/610585.md?page=3)