10 Completely Overrated Movies
8. Bridesmaids (2011)
Im kind of a feminist. I am definitely for equal pay and am currently chipping away at my own little corner of the glass ceiling. When Bridesmaids was released, every review and every interview with the films stars kept repeating something to this effect: The film is a female version of The Hangover, and it proves that women can be just as dirty as men.
Well, the first problem is that The Hangover wasnt funny. Dont use an unfunny film to recommend another unfunny film. Secondly, I dont think Betty Friedan was picturing Melissa McCarthy using a sink as a toilet when she penned The Feminine Mystique. Dont try to make a film more than it is. It wasnt a treatise on female comedy. It wasnt saying something terribly unique about female friendships. It was just a bunch of women sitting around telling the same old sex jokes, defining themselves by their relationships to men, and dancing around to Wilson Philips songs.
And, can we all agree that Kristen Wiig is trying way too hard?