Bachelorette

Overview

With many a wedding comedy coming out in recent years, there's a certain formula that one has come to expect: bride/groom's well-meaning friends bungle the pre-wedding bachelorette/bachelor party with too much booze/drugs/sex with strangers, and comic antics ensue. What you get instead with Bachelorette is a group of bitchy, not at all well-meaning friends, who do everything they can to ruin the possibility of their friend having the dream wedding she'd planned.

Kirsten Dunst leads the pack of 'B-Faces' (the apt name the girls gave themselves in school) as Regan, followed by a tyepcast Isla Fisher as the 'slutty drunk' Katie, and Lizzy Caplan as Gena, the girl who takes drugs to escape her past. The three are invited to be bridesmaids at the wedding of their less pretty friend from school (Rebel Wilson, who seems to be relishing these roles that Hollywood's throwing her), and they spend the night before causing mayhem while lost in their own depressingly self-centered lives.

No characters, other than the couple who are getting married, are sympathetic in this movie, and while there are the odd laughs, Bachelorette is far less a comedy and more of a nightmare scenario of what the nasty group of girls from highschool really gets up to. If you want the darker version of Bridesmaids and The Hangover, this is it.