Women may have anything but a personality in director Simon West’s offensive bland comedy for working life and life, “Bride hard. ” Rebell Wilson Stars as an American spy in search of a single redemption quality in Magenta Light Studios wedding party-turned negotiations. It’s been 13 years ago Anna Camp broke out with Wilson in “Pitch Perfect,” And the cash register Success for that franchise Made the actress’s reunion in a new film inevitable. Yet they deserve a better match than “bride hard.”
The problems start with Shaina Steinberg’s incorrect and shallow script. A pale imitation for “Bridesmaid” (who earns his Punny Association with Bruce Willis Action Classic Even less), Wilson and Camp’s latest film To answer: “Should these childhood besties stay friends?” Instead, it collapses to an ad -loaded similarity that is not only deeply unpleasant but is reminiscent of the infamous “Game Night” question, “How can it be profitable for Frito Lay?” It will also have many people who go out from theaters to Google, “Is it the mass shooter from Season 6 of ‘Gray’s Anatomy?'” And yes, It is.
Before the product placement and surprise Michael O’Neill Performance, Betsy (camp) marries his bachelor party in Paris. It is the dream for lots of brides, but things are already tense between Betsy and her maid, Sam (Wilson). From absent and flaky thanks to her sad non -descriptions super intelligence work, Sam is introduced through a sequence that sees her juggling plot points from “27 dresses”, slapstick strikes “spy” and Anna Chumsky as her intense competitor of type-a. A colleague bridesmaid and betsy’s future sister -in -law, Virginia can’t wait to turn in and take over when Sam screws up.
“If you tell Betsy, you must kill Betsy,” explains Sam’s friend from work, Nadine (Sherry Cola), after the disastrous mission/case out in France. She is only half a joke, but even the supportive chemistry between the two colleagues seems to be a potential threat to Betsy. Da’vine Joy Randolph and Gigi Zumbado round off their bride party in a LOP-sided narrative structure.
Randolph has never met a role she couldn’t crushAnd the Oscar winner gets some good enough moments like Lydia by bouncing a sexy pastor. TV actress Zumbado is immediately nice as Zoe, a pregnant sweet nose whose bubbling energy is reminiscent of Katharine McPhee’s performance in “The House Bunny.” Still, the five -part bridal party is not noticeable. Even during the day, dressed in light red around the camp as their burning white center, “bride hard” paints her heavyweight casting in an inexplicably beige.
Celebrates in Savannah, Georgia (Yippe-Ki-Yay for tax relief!), the happy couple is worthy of their wedding on an idyllic southern property. A torrent of floral prints and pastels greets the now ex-maid of honor sam, which even robbed of her handguns gives “spy” by carrying all blacks. Soon Betsy and her hubby, Ryan (Sam Huntington), both will be the recipient of the Caldwell family’s huge whiskey wealth. But before the bride and groom can say: “I do,” Shot calls out and Stephen Dorff arrives as the “bridal” version of his grubes. He and his craftsmen are ready to object to Betsy and Ryan’s union, but they do not know that Sam hides her half -herself as well.
After directing “Con Air” and “The Expendables 2”, West is an action expert. Still, titles from 2006 “When A Stranger Calls” recording to Last year’s “Old Guy” has given him an overwhelming reputation. He struggles with the story as much as ever here and gets lost in a goal-by-Number idea that has even made careless should be sharper. Look at Sam Beat a man with curling iron before staking him with a cookie stake resembles something as Fun – but “Bride Hard” is never funny. It kills the mood faster than a poor toast, but even death on arrival, this wedding feels like torture.
The actress formerly known as Fat Amy has the ability to strengthen simple comic lines, but she cannot act out of a script with zero functional jokes. A sequence contains a wink to film noir that comes out and looks more like a stroke, when Sam says: “You give it up as a good whore on the side of the highway.“ For starters, it is 2025 and you do not pick up sex workers on the highway. (Street corner, perhaps.) Even worse, the line makes Sam look like an even bigger asshole than she already does in a store that seems practically designed to leave Wilson standing at the altar.
Released at the top of the Pride month to American audiences that are facing a serious cultural valley, “Bride Hard” goes from shit to annoying when you think of everything Wilson has gone through in the entertainment industry. She married fashion designer Ramona Agruma last year, and Camp debuted her new girlfriend Jade Whipkey at the film’s premiere with the red carpet. To criticize “bride hard” for her anti-feminism would be a greater waste of time than to extend against the lady “ghostbusters”, but you must believe that these women would have made an all-round better- And gayer! – Film about the directed.
Even provided that the best intentions of “Bride Hard” cannot present this boundary pick-me of a film a coherent reality. There is a “My Neck, My Back” song that falls flat, and the arrival of Heartthrob Justin Hartley (“This is us”) goes from promising to painful when you appreciate how bad all this talent became fumbled. Scary fuzzy special effects dizzy by meeting commercial location that makes every glossy frame seem cheap.
The sale starts with a nod to Lay’s Potato chips before the movie plugs Sunchips as well. “Bride Hard” also has the humiliating suggestion that a fantastic rich woman would make her wedding anniversary bridal makeup exclusively with Elf Cosmetics. (No shadow to the budget -friendly brand; for a long time she can hide.)
Stories about childhood friends struggling to keep in touch are empathetic by nature, but the audience remembers films such as “Superbad” and even less titles such as “Tag” for their uniqueness and specificity. Film guests didn’t need much time to watch Willis play an emotionally stunned operation in “Die Hard” to understand why he would bring down a high -rise building for his foreign wife. And yet, an inflated first act cannot save Betsy and Sam from the sense that their history is not special, and their bands do not matter.
Sure, there is a sweet home video sequence during the opening credits, and bloopers at the end to trick you into thinking you were doing well. But even the most committed cinephiles should forgive everyone who wardens their eyes from the camp and Wilson’s disastrous error. It is a matter of label as much as self -preservation and reason enough for the stars to differ from “bride hard” and take their “pitch perfect” party somewhere their talent will not be, in the bard Bellas, cut off.
Rating: D-
From Magenta Light Studios, “Bride Hard” is now in theaters.
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