Bachelorette

Finally women are receiving equal opportunity when it comes to making crude comedies. With 'Bridesmaids' last year we now get another similarly themed film.
I think it is great that women are now having the chance to prove they can be just as crass as their male counterparts. It is a long time coming and something that I look forward to. And I mean 'forward to' as so far we have not had a decent crude comedy featuring a mostly female cast. I was not impressed with 'Bridesmaids' last year because like most Judd Apatow produced films it was too long and boring for a comedy. Now we get this one which is the right length but was still not funny. This time around the problem is the characters. The one thing that 'Bridesmaids' proved was that you can have likable female characters and still be rude and crude. Leslye Headland, the writer/director of 'Bachelorette' does not think the same thing. The three lead characters of Regan, Katie and Gena are not very nice women. Their motives are not very nice either. I'm not sure exactly why they are friends with Becky to begin with. All they seem to do is make fun of her and belittle her for her weight. Regan seems to be the one closest to Becky and is the most resentful of Becky. Which makes me wonder how Becky can not notice how much these women hate her. You can make the argument that Regan is nice enough to sacrifice a lot of her time to help Becky get ready for the wedding but her motive for doing it, out of spite, does not seem like a good reason. Gena was the only character of the trio that I liked because I liked her plot of trying to get back with an old boyfriend. The crude behavior also needs to come from an innocent place. Good women who stumble into bad behavior it more endearing than bad women making bad behavior.
I love the fact that Kirsten Dunst is doing a comedy but I just wish she made a decent one. She plays the bitch character really well though. Lizzy Caplan is great as Gena, the only nice character. Isla Fisher does play the continually drunken woman well but it is not a nice character. Rebel Wilson is excellent as Becky. I love how Rebel is becoming so popular in movies at the moment.
You can have unlikable characters in films but they have to be handled in a special way. You need to understand why they are so unlikable. Sadly Leslye Headland does not understand that.