The C word!

Title: Bridesmaids

Directed by: Paul Feig

Written by: Kirstin Wiig ….

Starring: Kirsten Wiig, Rose Byrne, Maya Rudolph and Melissa McCarthyy

Comedy is unforgiving, unrelenting, ruthless and at times painful, but it’ll do it’s job, make you laugh. And that’s Bridesmaids in a nutshell, a ferociously funny film filled with unbelievably nauseating moments. The text follows Annie (Kirsten Wiig) a failed bakery owner down and out on her luck who makes worse decisions than the South African Wildlife protectorate – really tighten up those damn Hooker hunting laws. Her best friend Lillian is soon to get married and asks Annie to be her maid of honour, reluctantly she agrees and a comedy of errors in the crudest and most intelligent ways unveils itself. Producing one of the funniest films of the year with a knockout all-female cast who deliver the goods repeatedly in this hilarious yet at times suicidal comedy. Wiig and McCarthy are a tour de force delivering the comedic performances of a year in a solid script which isn’t over basterdized by vulgarity or sensitivity. But rather strikes a feminine balance to make wholly believable and at times endearing.

Bridesmaids, comedy with a Capital C!

I give it 8 Hoers

Lose Lose

Title: Win Win
Director: Tom McCarthy
Writer: Tom McCarthy
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Bobby Carnavale, Amy Ryan and Jeffery Tambor

It’s difficult to say much about this film, because nothing actually happens in it. Not in an Existential or Jarmuschesque manner but rather in a hopelessly indie middle class way. Now films of a similar dispensation have succeeded with this formula, however their character were at least partly memorable. Nothing about this film is memorable, its horridly average and indie, from the nauseating colour schemes of the New Jersey winter to the Flat coke performances by Alex Shaffer . The films saving grace is the credits, okay I lie, Bobby Carnavale and Amy Ryan put in solid work as Giamatti’s supporting cast but outside of that it’s just really just one elevator music cong after the other. The film faired well at the 2011 Sundance Festival and there’s no surprise there as it comprised all the elements of the criteria that the folks at Sundance look for, but that being said their taste like Burt Young’s erections are highly unreliable and very rarely delivers what they promise.

Watch it, but don’t say we didn’t warn you.

I give it 4 Hoers.