Because as a general rule I don’t find female comedians as funny as male comedians.
ETA: voguevixen: :rolleyes:
My guess is that this is for two reasons, one reasonable, the other not.
The reasonable is that female comedians often talk about things from a female perspective or about things that are more interesting to women generally, just as male comedians do. Fair enough.
The unreasonable reason is that you have a much smaller pool of female comedians to choose from. For every male comedian you think is truly funny, you have seen a dozen you thought sucked and another half-dozen who were just OK. I’d be surprised if you’d even seen 18 female comics total in your entire life, and even if you’d seen twice that number that would still mean a total of 2 you thought were really funny.
It took me a moment there before I actually understood you were talking about a movie. And I was, “hey what has he got against bridesmaids, some are cute” 
Ditto. I don’t like the writer and I found the whole movie to be rather off-putting. It had its moments, but they weren’t enough to counter all the uncomfortable parts.
Agree on all counts!
I went into the movie theater knowing this was not Shakespeare’s Bridesmaids - it was going to be a gross, silly, over-the-top parody of a wedding. I got what I paid for and thought it was funny.
I will gladly go see Bridesmaids II (currently being prepped) and only hope it doesn’t suck half as much as Hangover II which was indeed a total waste of time and money.
My wife and I are huge McCarthy fans, so we gave the movie a shot. We made it as far as the toasts at the rehearsal dinner scene before we switched to Dr Who.
Hated The Hangover, just watched Bridesmaids and loved it. I had only heard about the diarrhea scene, so passed it off until Melissa McCarthy won the Golden Globe. She is EXCELLENT, I can’t wait to see the blooper reel of her. Kristen Wiig bugs the ever daylights out of me, but she does have that comic timing that just works so well sometimes. I preferred the women talking to each other the way friends do, really thought the writing was good.
Uncomfortable humor is the only type of humor I can’t even get on an intellectual level. Maybe I could get it if the person being made uncomfortable is a horrible human being, and thus you want him to feel bad. But it’s almost always the protagonist or other likable person.
I can explain why I vehemently don’t like it: I always identify with the person, so I feel as if the uncomfortable thing is happening directly to me. My emotional response is about the same as the character’s, and I don’t find that in any way amusing.
Someone previously inferred that I just didn’t like insult humor, but that’s totally false. I absolutely love it. Almost all of my favorite comedians throw out insults. I guess I just get this underlying sense that they are only being mean to be funny.
So, anyways, thanks for telling me that this movie is not for me.
Just watched it tonight with the wife. It was ok but no where near as funny as I’d heard. I thought it was about 20min too long. Kristin Wiggs character was a real sad piece of work that made the movie less funny and Maya Rudolph is one of the most unattractive women in show business.
I just saw it on DVD, and mostly liked it. Good cast; mostly-funny script. The dueling toasts at the reception went on waaaaay too long. Favorite scene, hands down: the disaster at the bridal boutique (“Look away! Look away!.. My God, it’s coming out of me like lava!”). Other good bits: The escalating insults between Wiig and the teenage girl at the jewelry store; Wiig on the airplane getting loopy; Wiig trying to provoke the cop into arresting her; and McCarthy stealing nine yellow lab pups. Very funny.
The movie had a basic core of sweetness, without ever being cloying, in its message about the importance of friendship that raised it a notch or two higher IME. As to a sequel, if the reviews are halfway good, I’ll watch it.
(I liked The Hangover, too, FWIW).
I ejected the DVD after just 20 minutes.
I liked it, for the most part. As I’m not a big SNL fan (haven’t watched it since the original cast left), I managed to watch the entire movie thinking it was Sarah Paulson in the lead role. Go figure.
I finally got around to seeing it a few weeks ago, expecting to love it. Unfortunately, I was utterly bored by most of it. I did make it through the whole movie, but I was very surprised as I thought it would be right up my alley. My wife watched maybe 15 minutes of it with me before excusing herself to go to sleep.
The only part of the film I liked was the romance with the cop. I don’t find embarrassment humor funny, and find toilet humor completely revolting. I left the theater during the dress shop pooping scene.
I found the movie vulgar. The line “I can’t believe I shit in the street” is just gross. Nothing about this movie made me laugh or even smile.