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Sundance: 'Bachelorette' Not 'Bridesmaids'

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Bachelorette premiered Monday at the Sundance Film Festival, and you can’t find a review about the movie that doesn’t compare it to Bridesmaids. Both movies are female-written comedies starting an all-star group of female actresses. But according to the reviews, Bachelorette has a dark twist to it that differentiates it from Bridesmaids. Whether this darkness is a good or bad thing depends on the reviewer. Regardless, after reading the reviews it sounds like something we can’t wait to see.

Basically, the movie is about a bride, Becky (Rebel Wilson) who was always the fat girl of the group. She, surprising to her friends, becomes the first in the group to get married. Her three bridesmaids Regan the control freak (Kirsten Dunst), Gena the cokehead party girl (Lizzy Caplan), and Katie the ditz (Isla Fisher) have a crazy night on the town the night before the wedding, involving a wrecked wedding dress, coke, semen, and ex-boyfriends.

Here’s a summary of what’s being said about the movie starring Kirstin Dunst, Isla Fisher, Rebel Wilson and Lizzy Caplan.

Bachelorette, a long-sloshed-night-before-the-wedding comedy that’s as caustic and brittle and high-strung as its damaged-princess heroines, zooms through the door that Bridesmaids kicked open without ever looking back — and, while it’s at it, it busts open half a dozen new ones. In Bachelorette, girls behaving badly isn’t just a joke, it’s a way of life […] Bachelorette takes the form of a romantic ensemble comedy, but it’s purged of any real romantic feeling. You’ll laugh, maybe a lot, but you probably won’t feel great about it in the morning, because the movie looks at love the way a bulimic looks at food.” - EW

“The title “Bridesmaids” was taken. So was “Mean Girls.” Either would be appropriate for this angry comedy by first-time writer-director Leslye Headland. […] Headland's script will draw inevitable comparisons to the Oscar-nominated “Bridesmaids,” but the key difference is that the characters here (except for Wilson's Becky) are uniformly nasty and unlikeable.” - Salt Lake Tribune

“In one of the most memorable early scenes of the raucously hilarious “Bachelorette,” which premiered at Sundance on Monday night, Gena explains her ranking system for blow jobs to a random guy on a plane. She explains why she routinely gives her boyfriends oral sex ranked at 4 or 5, and what is required for him to get an 8 treatment. Then she tosses off that she might give some stranger on a plane a 10-grade just for fun. The guy squirms. The audience squirms. And it’s pretty damn funny.” - Reuters

“The girls are nearly all at least a decade younger and more free-spirited, none of them are married and the goal in at least one case is to get back with a high-school sweetheart, not land a mature thirty-something. The partying and social situations -- for much of the film, it's not easy to find a scene without drug use, a strip club or a sex scene -- are generally played more aggressively than ‘Bridesmaids.’” - LA Times

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