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The movie’s true plot, much more than the wedding, is to see whether Annie can find a way to fix her mess-ups, after first recognizing her transgressions - against the nice patrolman, against the harried bride-to-be, and especially against herself. (If you can say you’ve never done anything remotely like that in your life, then you’re not one of the many people I’ve known in mine.) (Sure, he’s played by “Mad Men” pin-up Jon Hamm, but still.) And, when a nice State Patrol officer (Chris O’Dowd) starts courting her with charm and respect, she shares the wealth and reflexively treats him like dirt. Her weird British housemates take advantage of her, and she lets herself be treated like dirt by a casual sex partner specializing in booty calls. Asked to be maid of honor by best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph), she botches just about every wedding plan. It lets its main character, Annie (co-writer and “Saturday Night Live” staple Kristen Wiig), be as much anti-heroine as heroine - to be as believably, fallibly human as the characters celebrated in the slobby man-child comedies of not only Apatow (“The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Knocked Up,” “Superbad”) but Todd Phillips (“Road Trip,” “Old School,” the “Hangover” flicks).Ī former pastry chef now pushing retail at a jewelry store she loathes, Annie is a big - how shall we put this gently? - fuck-up. The scene featuring the ladies suffering food poisoning (spouting from both anatomical ends) is the trademark gross-out from producer Judd Apatow, the kind that can persuade guys to go with their dates or wives to see a movie called, yikes, “Bridesmaids.” Beyond the broadest yucks, though, there’s something else that gives the film both big grosses and staying power.
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The six women who make up the main cast are allowed to be sensitive and fashion-obsessed at one moment, and the next as messy and messed up as any jerk fooling around with a cigarette-smoking monkey in Bangkok. It has no marquee stars, 98 percent of the cast are women … and it’s about, um, bridesmaids.īut it is a hit - and not despite the Jekyll/Hyde push-pull of its comic bits (the subtle battling against the splattery), but probably because of this split nature. In a world where multiplexes teem with box-office sure bets like superhero epics (“Thor,” the “X-Men” prequel), men behaving badly (“Hangover 2”) and the sequels of summer (the “Panda” movie, the “Pirate” movie), here’s a hit that was never supposed to be one, at least by conventional Hollywood wisdom. The sweet and rude movie comedy “Bridesmaids” has sold more than $100 million worth of tickets in three weeks.