Bridesmaids (2011)

Our second trip to the cinema in 2 days found us laughing ourselves silly once more, this time at live-action 'chick flick' Bridesmaids. In recent years 'chick flick' has become a dirty word, mostly used for desperately unfunny vehicles for the likes of Jennifer Aniston, but Bridesmaids bucks the trend by being a flick about chicks that is uproariously hilarious with a refreshingly unromantic flavour. 

Rather than your usual girl moons over boy set up, Bridesmaids concerns itself with the jealousy engendered by Annie's (Kristen Wiig) new rival for her best friend Lillian's (Maya Rudolph) affections, namely rich bitch Helen (Rose Byrne). When Lillian gets engaged, life-long best friend and maid of honour Annie feels threatened by Lillian's new friend Helen, the rich trophy wife of the fiance's boss. There is a romance thrown in in the form of Chris O'Dowd's Irish cop, and it's nicely done, but the real fun is to be had in Wiig's performance and the antics of the other bridesmaids, each and every one a comic masterpiece.

I laughed a lot in this movie, and I came out feeling as smiley and joyful as when I left Kung Fu Panda 2. Full of character humour, gross out vomiting (a priceless scene involving food poisoning in a wedding dress shop) and moments of flat-out hilarity like Annie's drugged up state on an airplane, Bridesmaids ticked so many boxes, none of which were marked 'dull'.