I thought it was just OK. It certainly did not live up to the hype of being a Hangover starring women. Hangover 2, maybe.
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.
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.
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!
Leave it to you to drop some punch in the turd-bowl.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why?
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.
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.
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.’
Because women are stupid. (Is this your first day on the internets?)