Lillian (Maya Rudolph) is getting married and has asked her lifelong best friend, Annie (Kristen Wiig), to be her Maid of Honor. While everyone involved is happy and glowing at the idea of the occasion Annie isn’t exactly equipped at this time in her life, but she’s not going to let her friend down, at least not intentionally. So Annie tries to get past all her current failings and signs of depression and try and make this all work.

Let’s get this straight. This is not, I repeat IS NOT, The Hangover. I almost think it’s unfair, even though I haven’t seen it yet, that it should be released the same year as the sequel to The Hangover since now it’s going to be so closely compared, and unjustly so, to it. Other than the fact that this movie doesn’t shy away from crude humour and things go horribly wrong this has no real relation with the Todd Phillips’ film. It can easily be compared with The 40-Year-Old Virgin more easily in style and substance than The Hangover and it just bothers me that people do the opposite.

Be wary men, this movie wasn’t made for you. While you’re not going to be dreading the entire runtime it was made with women in mind completely. While I chuckled from time to time I found my date unable to keep air in her lungs long enough for me to start questioning how she was still living at the end of the movie.

While I’m not an avid fan of Saturday Night Live I have fallen in love with the comedic nature of Kristen Wiig, but I’ve realised that love is really only applicable in small doses. I found her hilarious in MacGruber, Paul and Whip It. Here however I just thought her, and basically the style of comedy, just too much for my liking.

There’re very few comedians, and films, which can reside in the realm of excess and still come out the other end being completely successful. Bridesmaids isn’t one of them.

Somehow, and I hope this isn’t seen as a sexist statement, I thought that Jon Hamm was the best part of the movie. His small moments where he just appeared and was a complete asshole was so funny that I couldn’t control my already uncontrollable “man-crush” for the Mad Men star. You know he’s a dick to her, and while I’m not saying that’s okay I was laughing my ass off at how smarmy Hamm was in the film.

Proof however that this movie isn’t the be all of female comedies I believe is the subplot of Helen (Rose Byrne) and Annie. When Annie begins her journey as the maid of honour she realises that there’s one woman in her way, and that is Helen the new amazing almost instant BFF that Lillian has collected now that she’s in this whole new social scene with her husband to be. The competition that then occurs between Helen and Annie plays out as a formulaic, yes I’m using one of my least favourite “critic” words, as they come. It begins as them trying to disguise their competition by being polite while hating each other and grows and grows until it comes to peak and then eventually you get a slight resolve between the two characters while at the same time still making Helen be a little bitch. It was just cringe worthy to say the least.

With all that said however, it seems that if you’re not a dude all of the above barely applies to you and you will probably love this movie with a passion that only Twilight fans are familiar with.

Rating: 5.0/10