2. Kristen Wiig, that sound you hear is your Hollywood stock rising. For once, she plays a relatively normal person. And she does it well. We like her very much.
3. Someone once told us that a comedy needs three big funny scenes to make it stick in viewer's minds. Here they are (your results my vary): dress fitting scene, airplane scene, bridal shower scene.
4. Melissa McCarthy steals the show without question, looking and acting nothing like the cutesy stock character she seems to play on the CBS sitcom "Mike and Molly" (we haven't seen an episode, but have bore witness to countless promos).
5. We, too, loved Wilson Phillips circa 1990.
6. The one false note, to us, is the wacky British roommates. Too much.
7. Would cops really let civilians (i.e. possible new girlfriends) ride along with them in a patrol car when they're on duty? Or let them sit on the hood of their car in a parking lot? Or let them work a radar gun?
8. Stray dogs in a restaurant parking lot is never a good sign.
9. Funny that Maya Rudolph's fiancee gets zero lines.
10. Dropping off a junker car at a swanky valet stand? We've been there, people. Not fun.
11. Good stuff. And will hopefully help get more smart, female-centric movies made.
12. As an aside, we saw trailers for Friends with Benefits and What's My Number, both of which seem atrocious, the sort of paint-by-number, connect-the-dots romantic comedies that feel completely artificial and contrived (and usually star Kate Hudson and/or Katherine Heigl). No thank you. Bridesmaids is no documentary, but at least it feels like it's a part of the real world.
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