Bridesmaids

Just before.... the incident.

It's a bloody shame that so many men out there probably won't watch Bridesmaids because it's called... well... Bridesmaids.  I just don't think their tiny minds (I'm talking about the daft macho ones here) will allow them watch a film that is even named after something so girly wirly woo bags.

It's the 'Full Monty' effect - I had friends that I could never get to watch that film, even though it is really just a hilarious British comedy, just because it seemed to be about male strippers.  Yeah.  Really bad, incongruous and very funny male strippers.  Just like Bridesmaids is about really bad, incongruous and very funny bridesmaids.

I don't think that there is 'male' humour and 'female' humour - I really don't.  And I think I'm in a good position to judge as I have been both male and female before now, and that means being let in to the single sex groupings for both gangs.  The girl's night out AND the boy's night out.  And let me tell you - boys and girls laugh at the same stuff.

Someone shitting themselves is funny in any gender.  And of course, in Bridesmaids, in a pivotal scene, the hilarious horror is ramped up by the girls being in a posh bridal shop trying on posh dresses when they all suffer the effects of food poisoning.  Someone shitting themselves while wearing a posh expensive dress is very funny in ANY gender.

I suppose there could be a counter argument that Bridesmaids laughs at women in order to get men to like the film.  So it says 'hey boys - us girls are stupid aren't we?'.  I don't buy it - the women in this film are monstrous, daft, vain, crazy and funny.  But that's because they're people - not because they're women.

It is a fab, fun film and, on a more girly note, I would marry Chris O'Donnell in a shot - and you're all welcome to be my bridesmaids...