It may get a little slow at parts, but it made me laugh harder than ANYTHING I've seen in YEARS. I was laughing so hard I almost **** myself

A-. Very well done, other than some pacing issues. Maya Rudolph was pretty much the only weak link in a ridiculously strong cast, and she wasn't bad enough to really be a problem.

Really like to see this kind of movie come out and do well...you get complete credit for taking the wife out to a movie "for her", yet I can still totally enjoy myself.

Wiig is pretty much in a league of her own.

The bf is already dismissing it too....too bad for him.

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Absolutely hilarious movie.

Very funny flick, and what you'd expect from something associated with Apataw - the spot on mix of raunchiness, wittiness, and heartfelt authenticity.

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this movie is almost entirely not a chic flic. It is raunchy, dirty, and hilarious.

haven't seen it but if its as funny as people are making it out to be one has to wonder what is going on at snl because it really really really sucks. because snl has sucked for almost a decade

saw it a 2nd time with a different group of people both times, and we all laughed really hard. i could barely make it through the dress fitting scene the 2nd time without gasping for air from laughing.

People always say SNL sucks. It's old hat. There has been plenty of great material come put of SNL in past decade. Watch an ENTIRE episode or season from the glory SNL seasons. There is a lot of junk in there. It's the nature of sketch comedy.

I just saw it and I have to agree with everyone else, it was hilarious and a little slow in parts, I was skeptical going in but came out a very happy man. Well done

Saw it this weekend. I wasn't too amused by it.

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does he not like comedies? why else would he not want to see it?

My comedy TV watching is pretty much just the NBC Thursday night lineup, minus Outsourced. Never got into It’s always sunny, although every time I stumble onto it I like it.  I think being on cable it’s a show I just forget about.  loved arrested development.  I can’t stand crap like Two and a Half men. 
 
I do keep up with SNL(it helps to fast foward) and I’m a fan of Kristen Wiig.  She is hands down the best comedic actress going right now.  we’ll see how her career goes from here, but I think she’ll be regarded with the likes of Lucille Ball, and Carol Burnett.  As someone in another thread mentioned, wiig simply goes for it like no other actress can or does.  Look up a sketch from this week where she plays Anne Margaret.  It’s strange, esoteric, and Anne Margaret is completely irrelevant to most people.  which is why they put it at the end of the show, but wiig kills in it by doing nothing but dancing and facial expressions.  she can also be dry when called for(see knocked up, a movie I didn’t care for that much btw).
 
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Nothing about the trailer looked that chick flicky to me.  It is basically your standard apatow comedy but with mostly women.  If you haven’t liked other apatow movies, you won’t like this one.  if you do like apatow stuff you might still be put off by women being pretty more vulgar than you’re used to in movies.  I have to admit it was a little unsettling for me at time.  Mild spoiler, but I’ll keep it vague.  I’m still laughing about the scene where Maya Rudolph crosses the street in the wedding dress.  She killed it.  the walk, her facial expressions, the defeated acceptance.  Nails.  I think Wiig, Rudolph, and Amy Poehler are the only three actresses going that could’ve pulled that off.   
 
like most any other comedy the main character has the “will they get together in the end” love interest, except this time the main character is a women.  That alone doesn’t make it chick flicky.  There is a little more girl on girl sharing of feelings, but it wasn’t that bad. 

Spoiler alert: most everything works out in the end. 

It does drag in the middle which does expose wiig’s weakness for straight up acting(although more so with Rudolph, wiig is ok but a little flat).

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I saw it having never even heard of it. My friend that I saw it with described it to me as The Hangover but with girls. I didn't really feel that was an accurate description. I've seen The Hangover about 10 times. I don't think I would enjoy watching Bridesmaids more than once or twice. Parts of it were really funny. Parts of it were not really entertaining, they just seemed to stretch the movie out longer. I'm not saying it was a terrible movie, it just wasn't my favorite. Acting was good though.

On a side note, the movie had a preview for Horrible Bosses. That movie looks like it should be hilarious.

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I disagree because all chicks can be raunchy, dirty, and hilarious. No telling what they talk about "with the girls". I think it it was a chick flick, but a damn funny chick flick.

Not as funny as the Hangover IMO, but a pretty funny movie and worth seeing.

Saw it with my wife this weekend, and I was somewhat hesitant because of the whole chick-flick press some folks were giving it. We saw it and loved it. My wife said it was better than Hangover, but I think it's too early to make that claim. To me, the Hangover is a modern day comedy classic, and to claim anything has surpassed it is like talking retirement homes with your parents at your high school graduation.

That being said, I was not expecting it to be as good as it was. Definitely some great one-liners and quotes from the movie. Rudolph's street scene was absolute gold.

It was funny and definitely worth seeing. But like many Apatow films it annoyingly bunches zany, low brow humor scenes into a syrupy, over-serious story, giving you the feeling that you're watching two completely different movies at once. Just stick to the ha-ha's, man.

saw it with the wife, we both agreed it wasn't nearly as funny as the hangover. i give it a B-. solidly funny, but not as cohesive or fresh as the hangover. the chick from reno 911 and erin from the office might as well have not been in the movie. i was waiting for them to really contribute, but they never did.

Lol the hangover was not that amazing I don't know why people put that on a ridiculous pedistool as the king of comedy movies

I thought the Hangover was hilarious.

I thought Bridesmaids was below average.

There's really no valid comparison between the movies...

Of course there is- they are practically the same movie with characters of the opposite sex. And just as plenty of females find The Hangover funny, plenty of males find Bridesmaids funny, so the appeal is pretty broad even though the basis of each is very gender specific.

Audience opinion on Rotten Tomatoes is trending together on both, and critics are higher on Bridesmaids.

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meh, hangover was one of the funniest movies i'd seen in years. bridesmaids was just funny. that's my opinion (and my wife's). no "pedistools" here!

I thought the hangover just ok as well. Pretty funny, but I laughed much harder at bridesmaids. Hangover may have been the funniest in a while, but I don't think it came close to movies like old school, or anchor man.

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Opinions are funny. I hate Old School and Anchorman.

Yeah I understand opinions and everything, no problem with that. I'm just saying it isn't right for people to use hangover as a scale of how funny something is. It was not a marvel of american comedic cinema. It was funny, not the standard. Some people won't like bridesmaids, a lot of it requires you to like some toilet humor.

Your opinions are wrong.

I did remember something else that bothered me about the movie.

SPOILER ALERT (kind of)

The whole thing about "I don't bake anymore." That just seemed really stupid to me. Maybe it's because they tried to make that part all serious in a movie where you have things like the dress fitting scene. Her store closed down, so she can't make pastries any more? Dumb. Reminds me of the scene in Orgazmo where he says "I don't do hampster style anymore," but without being funny.

Anyone else have similar feelings on this?

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Agreed Rocky. I was waiting for the reveal of why she doesn't bake. I thought there was something deeper there. But there wasn't. It just seemed awkward like they just added it in to try and give her character more depth.

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And that was after the scene when she made those gourmet cupcakes.

So... I guess she did bake... except when she didn't.

Saw this last night. Funny movie. Like most Apatow-produced movies, it suffered from pacing issues. Some scenes dragged. The cast was nails. Except for the guy playing the cop. That guy just didn't click and I can't put my finger on why...

I don't find it that unrealistic that she'd dreamed about making pastries and owning a cake shop, then did, failed and now baking reminds her of her failure. the scene with her making the cupcake obviously showed she still enjoys it and is really good at it, but she's still working thru how she's dealing with her failure. seemed reasonable to me.

^Bingo. Just figured she'd want to do it on her own terms.

I found it very odd that Tim Heidecker was in this movie and I don't think he even had a single line. I guess they must have cut his dialogue or something.

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maybe that was the joke. many guy-centered movies just have women as props who either barely talk or don't at all. he was effectively the prop in the movie.