Review of Bachelorette (2012) by Blæke W — 23 Jan 2015

I didn't laugh once. Not a single character was likeable as a bunch of women took cocaine and destroyed the wedding dress of their supposed friend, whom plenty of the script was written at the expense of: we get it, Rebel Wilson is fat, is that a reason to resent her character's happiness? Rebel Wilson, the bride, WAS likeable, but I couldn't work out why she'd be friends with people who don't hide that they have no respect for her. One of the characters is.

obsessed with an abortion she had fifteen years ago and this is treated with reverence and as a taboo, rather than as something she should have got help with emotionally at some point, you know, in the fifteen years since and before the day of her friend's wedding. Date rape is encouraged by James Marsden's character, and strippers are referred to as 'skanks'.

A predictably sappy ending makes proceedings even less believable and, frankly, I don't want these people to have a happy ending - they were that nasty that they didn't earn one. Really well acted, as we've come to expect from these leads, but it's a damn shame no one wrote a better film for them to star in.