The women's dialogue is pungently ribald but diffuse; too often, shouting and shrieking and gesticulating take the place of engaged performance.
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Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.
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A nasty little piece of work -- a phrase I use not with contempt but with grudging admiration.
Its actresses - particularly Dunst - are terrific. Headland has a nice feel for music, too, and takes some editing risks.
I don't see why women being as slobby and gross as the guys is such a feminist breakthrough -- especially since, as in Bachelorette, the slobbiness and grossness is witless.
As smart and popreferential as Headland's writing is, it's a little underwhelming when it comes to delivering on laughs.
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