ronwolf1705 wrote:I actually quite liked Bridesmaids. Wiig was quite a tragic character in this movie, which was something I appreciated actually. But it was promoted as the female equivalent of The Hangover, which it clearly isn't.
This is quite close to what I said.
It's like Wiig took all the "crazy male striptease ... vibrators ... Sex in the City... etc" fun/sexy potential of the movie and made it (the script) just as a single showoff of her (good indeed, and which I can appreciate) drama qualities in as "not that funny, pathetically trying to be hip/sexy/funny kuger" - so someone will take her into more serious roles in the future and won't see her only as a comedian. Imagine "crazy girl movie" without male scriptease, vibrators...just toilet humor and vomit? It's all "sex in the city" censored. Or just written by a woman who only thinks they know what will be fun for such a movie
The movie itself wasn't bad and is touching as sweet romantic drama, and is funny a few times (would be funnier if most of those scenes where not already exposed in the trailers to promote the movie as "crazy girl comedy"...reminded me of showing Truman's ass to promote "Truman Show" as another crazy Jim Carrey comedy (??????????????????????????????????)). So it fails not as a movie - but relative to expectation or how it was sold to potential audience.
But what can we do - we don't like being misled.