Bridesmaids (2011, D: Feig, EP: Apatow) S: Wiig

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11-26-11, 11:32 AM

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Re: Bridesmaids (2011, Kristen Wiig/Judd Apatow)

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Had to turn this one off after an hour. Kept waiting for it to be funny. Then I realized I was half way in.

Maybe if I was a Wiig fan it would have done something for me.

Oh and who keeps casting Maya Rudolph? Her fugliness is at best a distraction.

So I glad I did not blind buy.

My wife rented this and I left probably about the same time you did. Maybe if it had been trimmed down to a snappier pace, but even then I just wasn't enjoying it.

She powered through and I think she enjoyed it.

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11-26-11, 11:42 AM

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I saw this in theaters and thought it was just "okay". I was expecting some slam-bang laughfest with all these references to the "female version of The Hangover" and what I got was a chick-flick with a few scenes of toilet humor.

That chick from Mike & Molly grated on my nerves, too.

I don't think it deserved all the praise it was getting though, that's for sure.

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11-26-11, 01:11 PM

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Re: Bridesmaids (2011, Kristen Wiig/Judd Apatow)

On the Maya Rudolph note, I think she's entertaining at times..but...it seems like having kids and etc have kind of toned down what attractiveness she had.

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11-26-11, 04:45 PM

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On the Maya Rudolph note, I think she's entertaining at times..but...it seems like having kids and etc have kind of toned down what attractiveness she had.

I actually think she looks better than she did before kids. Seems more radiant now.

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11-26-11, 09:17 PM

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Re: Bridesmaids (2011, Kristen Wiig/Judd Apatow)

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Agreed...caught up with it On Demand, and I too just thought it was "okay", while my wife thought it was awful (no surprise there, as she hates almost anything with Judd Apatow's fingerprints on it - he was a producer here). I'd give it a C plus or 2 1/2 stars.

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11-27-11, 06:24 AM

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Re: Bridesmaids (2011, Kristen Wiig/Judd Apatow)

I thought it was better than the Hangover - which didn't make me laugh at all.

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11-27-11, 09:37 PM

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I thought it was better than the Hangover - which didn't make me laugh at all.

Amen. I thought "Bridesmaids" was hilarious. And I found nothing funny about "The Hangover". Except maybe the chubby kid and the two cops in the police station.

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11-27-11, 09:44 PM

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Re: Bridesmaids (2011, Kristen Wiig/Judd Apatow)

We blind bought this for my girlfriend since it was on sale for black Friday and she just thought it was ok. A couple funny moments,but overall fairly boring. We didn't laugh much throughout at all.

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11-27-11, 10:14 PM

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Re: Bridesmaids (2011, Kristen Wiig/Judd Apatow)

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I thought it was better than the Hangover - which didn't make me laugh at all.

+1. I kept waiting and waiting for the funny stuff to kick in, but... The Hangover is one of the most overrated comedies in movie history.

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11-28-11, 12:12 PM

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Re: Bridesmaids (2011, Kristen Wiig/Judd Apatow)

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+1. I kept waiting and waiting for the funny stuff to kick in, but... The Hangover is one of the most overrated comedies in movie history.

If not the most overrated.

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11-28-11, 02:16 PM

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Re: Bridesmaids (2011, Kristen Wiig/Judd Apatow)

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+1. I kept waiting and waiting for the funny stuff to kick in, but... the hangover is one of the most overrated comedies in movie history.

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11-28-11, 06:44 PM

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Re: Bridesmaids (2011, Kristen Wiig/Judd Apatow)

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+1. I kept waiting and waiting for the funny stuff to kick in, but... The Hangover is one of the most overrated comedies in movie history.

This. The wife and I saw this last night. I put it at the top of my Netflix queue to see what the hype was all about. I smiled a couple of times but never really laughed. And when the credits rolled and I saw Feig's and Apatow's name, I realized why it wasn't funny.