Best of 2011: “Bridesmaids”

Posted by Robert Ryan on Jan 26, 2012 in Film | 0 comments

My second comedic pick of the year and well deserved. Kristen Wiig pulls out a suprising and sensitive performance which has to be the best of her career. Newcomer (at least to me) Melissa McCarthy was terribly funny as the not even needed comic relief. Maya Rudolph was good in her usual “I’m really a good person with feelings too” sort of way. Perhaps most interesting was the use of Rose Byrne as the femme fatale. In all the roles I’ve seen her play she does not strike me as this sort of character but she did so here extremely well.

Most raunch coms are, for lack of a better word, stupid, and generally unfunny to those that have half a brain but this film succeeds because it never insults your intelligence and allows you to laugh without feeling dumb for it.

Well directed and thoughtful and of course very very funny.

Recommended Viewing: Son of the Bride

Robert Ryan Scale: Objective: 8.5   –   Subjective: 9.0
MetaCritic: 75
Rotten Tomatoes: 90
IMDB: 7.0

Robert Ryan is a local cinema enthusiast with a film collection exceeding 8,000 titles. Robert fled his rural roots due to the church’s censorship of film. His passion and labor of love came with a price he never regrets paying. Before becoming affiliated with Rockland Lifestyle, Robert worked as a freelance film critic and professor at Nyack College, teaching digital film production.