89% 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 is just fall-down funny.

I suspect that Wiig is funnier when she's not so frenetically intent on finding 101 ways to make a fool of herself.

The real problem is that Annie veers dangerously close to being unlikeable although Kristen Wiig's performance is so winning that she just about gets away with it.

It also made me laugh so much I had a coughing fit and saw stars -- and I can't remember the last time a film of any "gender" made me do that.

Despite its flaws there's no denying that it is actually very funny and that Wiig gives a powerhouse performance full of nuance and wit.

While packed with hilarity, the laughs are always grounded in Kristen Wiig's heartfelt and utterly relatable performance.

Stars Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Rose Byrne have long deserved vehicles to showcase their talents, and here they're finally afforded the opportunities their schlubby male contemporaries were offered a long time ago.

As the star and co-writer of Bridesmaids Kristen Wiig finally gets to display her full range and the results are brilliant.

Not the chick flick it sounds like, Bridesmaids is The Hangover with skirts... hilarious and a bit of a miracle at a time when a major studio tries to force-feed audiences such cookie-cutter dreck as a PG-13 remake of Arthur.

With its often raw humour, rough language and soft heart, Bridesmaids is not a frilly girlie movie, more a busty, raunchy strut-it film

It's funny and it's charming, largely due to Kristen Wiig's great sense of timing and the smart comic script she has penned with Annie Mumolo

I'm sure many will see it for its gross-out moments but I was more impressed with how the film captures the fragility of its imperfect characters.

The funniest movie of the year. Unlike 'Hangover,' the film doesn't rely on sexism, homophobia and racial epithets to hit a punch line.

Bridesmaids delivers sweetness and sass.

It's uneven, unwieldy and overlong, but if it's yucks you're after you'll find them in abundance in a side-splitting comedy that lifts the veil on every wedding's unsung heroines.

It's a pleasant, funny couple of hours at the movies with a few great moments.

While undoubtedly formulaic, it's head and shoulders above most of Hollywood's recent comedy output.

See? Women can be funny, too. And raunchy, brazen and, sometimes, profound.

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