90% Bridesmaids

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The movie is uneven and lurching, but it provides many laughs.

Bridesmaids is a stiletto-sharp, raunchy, no-holds-barred yuk-fest that stands as a worthy female counterpart to the likes of Wedding Crashers and The Hangover.

The only question is: Will Kristen Wiig ever be this good again? The answer is, let's hope so. Bridesmaids rocks. Hopefully, a movie star is born.

In the end, Bridesmaids is touching and funny and a tiny bit sickening. Just like a real wedding.

The warring impulses within Wiig set a wonderfully skittish tone for the painfully hilarious new movie Bridesmaids, a screwy tale of female friendship and wedding planning from hell.

It's not a movie for people looking for a decorous night at the movies. It is a film, though, for folks eager for some good dirty jokes, some refreshingly real female characters - and, just maybe, a new comic voice.

Bridesmaids turns the gross-out comedy genre on its head and emerges bigger and better than its predecessors. It boasts unforgettable breakout performances and is the most important comedy of the year. And the best.

Wiig's brand of comedy is loud, proud and just gosh darned funny.

Never does Bridesmaids ever aim for truly biting commentary, opting to settle instead for a series of poop jokes and scenes of social awkwardness.

Is it funny? Yes, at times, and its female-centric theme will appeal to many women. I just hope they have the patience to trudge through the slow spots and story detours. Bridesmaids, which might as easily bear the title Women Behaving Badly

It's one I intend to re-visit over and over if only to bask in Wiig's understated sexual appeal...

By filling the plot hole of Lillian's cluelessness with explosive diarrhea, the film undermines the whole "Apatowian Female Comedy" idea.

Bridesmaids achieves, through the laughs, a kind of poignancy and empathy.

At its best, Bridesmaids does that wonderful thing: tell the truth, indelicately.

Indeed pretty much a rom-com in the end - but hugely enjoyable, fresh and rude, both touching and funny, all the way.

The comedy to beat this year.

It's something old, something new, something borrowed and (cough) something very, very blue.

There is real depth to the characterizations and friendships. It is so funny because it is all so painfully real.

As it turns out, fart and poo gags ARE universal, as demonstrated by the mostly female audience completely losing it during some of the more off-colour scenes.

Sharply written and winningly performed, it delivers more laughs than any movie released this year, but also, the longer it goes on, develops into a surprisingly poignant evocation of self-scuppering loneliness.

The full horror of being a bridesmaid is shown, but Wiig persuades you there is something genuinely loving and sisterly to be found at the end of this incredible ordeal.

Bridesmaids strives a little too hard in places to show that women can do outrageous gross-out comedy too - but it remains the best chick flick in years.

By treating funny women as normal people, Wiig has crafted a game-changing comedy that's even better than The Hangover.

Really, bottom line: it's the best thing Apatow's put his name to in years.

Impressively directed and brilliantly written, this is a consistently hilarious and superbly acted comedy that finally gives Kristen Wiig the lead role she deserves.

Bridesmaids features some genuinely funny laugh out loud moments...

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