Review: Batchelorette
Bachelorette (MA15+) 2.5 stars Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, Lizzie Caplan, Rebel Wilson Director: Leslye Hedland You'll like this if you liked: Bad Teacher, Young Adult, Observe and Report It takes a lot to make me laugh out loud in a movie. Bridesmaids tipped me over the edge. So too the upcoming Pitch Perfect thanks to Rebel Wilson's scene-stealing turn as Fat Amy and some hilarious left-field one-liners (the film opens in December). Sadly, however, I was squirming uncomfortably in my seat all the way through Bachelorette, Leslye Headland's debut feature about three girls who are invited to the wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school. Where Bachelorette differs from the runaway hit that was Bridesmaids - a film that proved women are just as adept at writing smart comedy as men - is that the gross-out is just a little too gross, the language a little too crass and the jokes, well, they're frankly just too mean to be funny. Bachelorette is based on H...