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For every
Ying there
is a Yang. For every man there is a woman. For every success there must
be
failure. So of course for every The Hangover (2009) there must be Bachelorette
- a cinematic counterpart with blindingly obvious intentions
to close in on the opposite market cornered by the successful 2009
comedy.
While The Hangover was a film made by men for men, it still
contained
broad comic appeal. Bachelorette is a movie made by women for
women
and they have seriously underestimated their audience.
Becky
(Rebel Wilson)
is twenty something American who is about to marry the man of her
dreams. To
complete this dream scenario Becky calls upon her high school friends
to be her
bridsmades and wedding planners. While this plotline may seem all to
familiar
to Bridesmaids (2011), which replicated The Hangover’s
formula of
big laughs delivered by small time actors, Bachelorette has
something more to offer to the formula: excessive foul language and
exorbitant
amounts of cocaine abuse.
Bachelorette features
a
perfectly capable cast that can pull the comedy out of a script given
the
dialogue and direction. Kirstin Dunst, Lizzy Caplan and Isla Fisher
have proven
this in the past with previous works across film and television. So why
isn’t
this film funny? The script is generic, vulgar without reason,
impersonal and
at times completely devoid of humor on any level. The main characters
are
mostly cold and uncaring towards people and surprisingly each other.
This makes
its instantly hard to care about them or their circumstance. When the
plot
reaches the final unsurprising conclusion almost all character
disagreements
are forgotten or resolved to underplayed, badly scripted comedy and a
typical musical
montage finale.
This is a
badly put
together film that unfortunately feels like it was penned by a spoilt
teenager
foreign to the word “No”. It is a juvenile attempt at a one-night
circumstance
party film. What this film borrows from other comedies it does not
expand upon
and also butchers without class. A house
cannot be built on sand, no matter how sturdy the material, just like a
film
cannot be built on a bad script, despite the talent involved. The
script is the
centrepiece to everything that revolves around it and everything that
revolves
around this particular script should be avoided for your own
entertainment
value.
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