Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Who Said Women Werent Funny?


After seeing the very funny movie Bridesmaids featuring Kristen Wiig, star from the hit comedy show Saturday Night Live, I knew this film would have an interesting yet big impact on the entertainment industry.  Kristen’s character Annie, as well as her co-stars Melissa McCarthy (Megan), Maya Rudolph (Lillian), and Rose Byrne (Helen) together create such an ensemble in which each characters’ uniquely developed personalities contributed to the recipe of comedy perfection.  With comedy expert and producer Judd Apatow and director Paul Feig also on the team, this film lead to break several barriers in terms of social norms specifically in terms of societies perception of women.  It relieves the always perfect, put-together image we are so used to seeing on the big screen and portrays the very vulnerable, more unguarded reality through frequent profanity and scenes relating to unusually spoken about or seen bodily functions if you will.  Nonetheless, this movie has become the foundation for women in comedy for future productions and even current movies such as The Heat.


            Also directed by Paul Feig, The Heat, takes us to a whole new level of comedy.  I can honestly say I have never seen a movie more funny than this one.  The jokes and sarcasm are endless and the chemistry between Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy is brilliant.  Id recommend everyone to check it out because I guarantee you will laugh at one point or another.  The characters, of which they play, are quite unfiltered and keep surprising you with clever remarks from opening scene to finishing credits.

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