History Film / Bridesmaids

''Bridesmaids'' is a 2011 comedy starring and co-written by Kristen Wiig of ''SaturdayNightLive'' fame and co-produced by Creator/JuddApatow. Wiig plays Annie, a single, late-thirties woman stuck in a dead-end job and a dead-end relationship. She faces a new source of anxiety when her old friend Lillian (played by fellow SNL alum MayaRudolph) gets engaged to a rich guy and seems poised to leave Annie behind for her rich, fancy new friends, especially Lillian's prospective new best friend, Helen (Rose Byrne).

Designed as something of a DistaffCounterpart to ''TheHangover'' and other films of its ilk, and was a massive success.

* HypocriticalHumor:

* ShallowLoveInterest: Taken to the logical extreme -- fiancé Dougie has zero characterisation and exactly one line: "I do."

* TheVoiceless: [[ShallowLoveInterest Dougie]] shows up in two scenes in the movie and despite being mentioned a lot, only has one line: "I do."

* GreenEyedMonster: Annie's jealousy of Helen just makes everything worse for her.

* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: Lillian's wedding dress, designed by a famous designer in France, went a little too far.

* HumiliationConga: The movie might as well be called ''Annie's Humiliation Conga''. She's lost all of her money in a failed business venture, is working in a dead-end job, living with a weirdo and his weirdo mooch sister, and is in a Friends-With-Benefits relationship with the aforementioned {{Jerkass}}. And that's at the ''start'' of the movie. ItGetsWorse: [[spoiler:she goes on to lose said job and apartment, move in with her mother, drive away her best friend and a potential love interest...]]

''Bridesmaids'' is a 2011 comedy starring and co-written by Kristen Wiig of ''SaturdayNightLive'' fame and co-produced by JuddApatow. Wiig plays Annie, a single, late-thirties woman stuck in a dead-end job and a dead-end relationship. She faces a new source of anxiety when her old friend Lillian (played by fellow SNL alum MayaRudolph) gets engaged to a rich guy and seems poised to leave Annie behind for her rich, fancy new friends, especially Lillian's prospective new best friend, Helen (Rose Byrne).

* BillingDisplacement: The posters for the film ran with the bridesmaids theme, depicting all five of them (plus the bride) which was why Chris O'Dowd (Officer Rhodes) doesn't appear, despite playing an arguably more important character than Wendi [=McLendon=]-Covey (Rita) or Ellie Kemper (Becca).

--> "Did you think all these women were going to finish ''that'' cookie? Oh, that reminds me, actually, I never got to try that FUCKING COOKIE! *runs outside and starts ''attacking the cookie* "STUPID FUCKING COOKIE! Oooh, delicious!"
* CountryMatters: Annie calls one of her customers a cunt, [[spoiler:which gets her fired]].

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Annie does this on purpose to attract Rhodes' attention when he's deliberately ignoring her.

* {{Milwaukee}}: About half of the plot takes place here.

''Bridesmaids'' is a 2011 comedy starring and co-written by Kristen Wiig of ''SaturdayNightLive'' fame and co-produced by JuddApatow. Wiig plays Annie, a single, late-thirties woman stuck in a dead-end job and a dead-end relationship. She faces a new source of anxiety when her old friend Lillian (played by fellow SNL alum Maya Rudolph) gets engaged to a rich guy and seems poised to leave Annie behind for her rich, fancy new friends, especially Lillian's prospective new best friend, Helen (Rose Byrne).

* OneSceneWonder:
** Lillian's dad is in both of his scenes.
** Annie's CrazyAwesome mother as well.
** Annie's roomates count as well

* HumiliationConga: The movie might as well be called ''Annie's Humiliation Conga''. She's lost all of her money in a failed business venture, is working in a dead-end job, living with a weirdo and his weirdo mooch sister, and is in a Friends-With-Benefits relationship with the aforementioned {{Jerkass}}. And that's at the start of the movie. ItGetsWorse.

** Actually seems to be a subtle Deconstruction of one. She tells Rita she's only had sex with Kevin, but is frustrated by his unwillingness to be open sexually, even saying desperately to Rita, "And after we've showered, sometimes he's too tired, so I say I am too, but I'm not tired! I'm not tired!", and the discussion even ends with her and Rita [[LesYay drunkenly making out.]] During the Brazillian meal, Megan is saying Lillian is probably crying about marrying Dougie, "I love him, he's my brother, but he's a fucking asshole!", Becca is seen ''cheerfully nodding along'' with the statement.

* NoSocialSkills: [[spoiler:Helen (over) plans lavish parties to make up for the fact she has very few female friends.]]
* OfficerOHara: Unusual modern example of a DiscreditedTrope with Officer Rhodes, although to be fair, he's not very [[{{Oireland}} Oirish]] outside of the accent.
** Which is strange, considering that the actor is Irish. It looks more like a case of OohMeAccentsSlipping in the beginning, transitioning into NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent. Rhodes being non-American ''is'' briefly HandWaved ("I didn't know that you could be a cop here if you weren't a citizen") but the lack of explanation and generic Anglo name does suggest he wasn't originally written as Irish or even foreign.
*** For what it's worth, most Americans struggle to tell the difference between a ''genuine'' Irish accent and a strange American one.
*** The questionable accent is arguably lampshaded when John Hamm arrives to pick up Annie in his car.
--->"That cop talks weird."
** What makes this even stranger is that in ''Film/FriendsWithKids'' O'Dowd showed that he's perfectly capable of talking with an American accent.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: A jilted Rhodes snapping at Annie to get her '''her fucking tailights fixed'''! Doesn't she understand how '''badly she can hurt people'''?...[[LastSecondWordSwap with these broken lights]]?

** Annie's many attempts to get Rhodes' attention in the car.

* TheVoiceless: Dougie shows up in two scenes in the movie and despite being mentioned a lot, only has one line: "I do."

** TheVoiceless: Dougie (Lillian's fiance) gets no lines, neither does Perry. (Helen's husband).

** Our [[ChekhovsGun first glimpse]] of Helen's true nature comes when we see how her stepsons treat her.

* CluserFBomb: During Annie's tantrum at the bridal shower.

* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Rhodes.

* GetHoldOfYourselfMan: Played with. After her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech fails, Megan essentially tackles/wrestles with Annie and won't let her up until Annie slaps ''her''. It's the slap that proves to them both that Annie still has some fight left in her and is the catalyst for her [[spoiler:starting to apologize to Rhodes]].

* WakeUpMakeUp: Lampshaded in the opening scene, when Annie tiptoes into the bathroom to freshen up while Fuckbuddy is asleep, in which we discover that during sex, she wears not only a [[ModestyBedsheet blue bra]] but also pink knickers. Truly sex for film actors and actresses follows different rules and realities...

* ModestyBedsheet: A\ La Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristen Wiig keeps her bra on for sex with Jon Hamm.

* EverybodyMustGetStoned: Helen giving Annie uppers ''and'' downers to cope with her fear of flying.

* FairytaleWeddingDress: Annie is delighted with last year's designer dress. So ''this'' year's must be [[SubvertedTrope even more fabulous]], right?

Designed as something of a DistaffCounterpart to ''TheHangover'' and other films of its ilk, and was a massive success. One of the few Apatow comedies to pass the BechdelTest with flying colors.

* PrecisionFStrike: Annie at the bridal shower, which then transitions to a ClusterFBomb.