It would be a major mistake to think that Bachelorette is simply a rip-off of Bridesmaids with a healthy dose of Mean Girls stirred into the mix. This comedy clearly marches to its own beat.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2021

You don't have to relate to their bad choices to understand the bizarre nature of female friendships. Screw The Hangover; Bachelorette is where it's at.

| Aug 13, 2021

The film is simply unbelievable; it's ruined not by the actresses or the script, but by the tone -- and not just ruined: destroyed, mashed into a pulp.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 8, 2018

The comedy's anarchic tone is refreshing but it leaves little room for heart. You'll laugh, but you might feel a bit hollow inside.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2017

Bridesmaids it's not.

| Mar 7, 2017

We always want women behaving badly, don't we? And damn, are Dunst and Co. good at it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 9, 2017

This isn't Bridesmaids, it's HurlyBurly for women pushing 30.

| May 12, 2015

Bachelorette strives to recapture the close-to-the-knuckle comic mayhem that made Bridesmaids a surprise hit, but the essential sweetness that underpinned the earlier film's gross-out gags is sadly lacking.

| Sep 7, 2013

The edginess is just window dressing. The message is as schmaltzy as anything you'd find in a kooky rom-com.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 22, 2013

Bachelorette is very much its own bitter brew, using the comic framework of a botched, coke-fuelled hen night to examine the stinging self-loathing exposed in three women by another's happiest day.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2013

Give me a nice Audrey Hepburn film any day.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2013

Retains that edge regularly removed from more commercially amenable comedies, and the cast make merry-ish ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2013

Gleefully caustic comedy that sticks an elbow in the face of the usual chick flick conventions ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2013

Not good.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 15, 2013

It flips in and out of its tone too many times. Nevertheless it does have a sourness and a wretchedness that make some moments startlingly real and vivid.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2013

It cuts to the quick with toxic glee, confronting us with a trio of the worst friends you could possibly want at your wedding.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2013

It's hard to feel anything but vacuity after watching, regardless of Dunst's commendable and animated turn at crushing the nuptials dream.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 15, 2013

This is simply one of the best of its druggy-slackers-go-bananas genre. And such beautiful women haven't been allowed to be so funny since Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2013

The cast tear through the film with bug-eyed glee, with Fisher and Caplan perfect as the two worst friends a girl could ever have.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2013

No amount of zingy putdowns from Dunst or coke lines from Caplan can hide the fact that this film is fluffy at heart (and no worse for that).

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 12, 2013