Review of Bachelorette (2012) by Jacquelyn C — 09 Jan 2015

The whole thing with the dress was a device to frame the struggles of three young women navigating young adulthood, that is, finding love, being competent and getting along with others, even your friends that you hate.

The performances put in by Isla Fisher (as the dumb girl), Lizzy Caplan (as the damaged one), and Kirsten Dunst (as the uptight perfectionist) were great. Even Rebel Wilson, who didn't get much screen time, put in a great nuanced performance of a sweet nice girl with bitchy friends.

She is a character that exists in nature and it's nice that she's being portrayed as the one who gets the guy. No, this is not a deep movie, and yes, it's a knock off Bridemaids, but each of the scenes are pretty rock solid from the one character's theory on blow jobs to the perfectionist character's devastating realization that she'd done everything right and still come up empty.

Other zingers: "No, because at least French was hard" (a totally unintended pun referring to Joe's penis when he leaves the dumb girl poolside--), "I think you meant Potsdam" (followed by a mini monologue putting the perfectionist in her place which quickly leads to.

..), "We're g to g" (Dunst exuding great chemistry with her object of flirtation for the evening). The ending is--you know--but I've seen worse endings. I couldn't help but notice that something like 75% of the reviews featured by the critics were from men.