- 10
...a beguilingly witty and heartrending comedy...
—Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly
- 10
...easily the funniest film of 2011 to date, and it will be hard for any other movie to eclipse it. In a year where worthwhile films have been few and far between, here we have the year's first eminently re-watchable picture, a movie that will leave audiences rolling in the theater aisles and later become a mainstay on TV screens, being viewed again and again on Blu-Ray and delighting channel-surfers when it pops up on cable. It's a classic in the making.
—Jason McKiernan filmcritic.com
- 9
...one of the best comedies of the year...
—Peter Paras E!
- 9
From the first overheated moments of Bridesmaids...it's clear we're in for that rarest of treats: an R-rated romantic comedy from the Venus point of view.
—Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times
- 8
...seems to be a more or less deliberate attempt to cross the Chick Flick with the Raunch Comedy. It definitively proves that women are the equal of men in vulgarity, sexual frankness, lust, vulnerability, overdrinking and insecurity.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 8
The movie is smart about a lot of things, including the vital importance of female friendships. And it's nice to see so many actresses taking up space while making fun of something besides other women.
—Manohla Dargis New York Times
- 8
Bridesmaids is being touted as a female version of The Hangover. That's an unfair bar to set, given how easily these ladies sail over it. [23 May 2011, p.37]
—Alynda Wheat People
- 7
...deftly navigates the ins and outs of platonic-pal sentimentality while recognizing and reveling in the sublime pleasures of gross-out nastiness, which...the film ultimately and effectively claims as not just the province of guys'-guy comedies.
—Nick Schager Slant Magazine
- 7
Many of the chaotic set pieces...work against Bridesmaids' often smart, highly class-conscious deconstruction of female friendship and competition.
—Karina Longworth Village Voice
- 7
Kristen Wiig is an indisputable goddess of comedy. And this rowdy fem-friendship movie she stars in and wrote with Annie Mumolo is infused with the Wiig brand of wicked mischief.
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
- 7
Those looking to get a raucous laugh should say "I do" to Bridesmaids.
—Claudia Puig USA Today
- 7
It's no surprise that Bridemaids sputters, coughs, and lurches, but it's a winning shambles, buoyed by a sharp, balanced comedic ensemble and some truthful observations about how close friends adapt when their lives fall out of step.
—Scott Tobias Onion AV Club
- 7
Wiig's natural and savvy instincts to go easy, and let the audience come to her, serve her and Bridesmaids well.
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 5
...an uneven, overlong, emotionally involving and discreetly ambitious film...
—Todd McCarthy Hollywood Reporter
- 4
...a sluggish, charmless misfire in which even the most appealing players -- including Chris O'Dowd as an Irish-accented cop -- must try too hard to make anything close to an engaging impression.
—Joe Leydon Variety
- 4
By the time two hours had dragged by, I felt a lot like I had sat through a five-hour wedding.
—Lou Lumenick New York Post