Watching a teenage girl lose her boyfriend of 3 weeks is a lot less scary than watching a woman in her late 30 losing her boyfriend of three years. The film relies on the fact that as adults we all realize that the teenage girl is probably better off being “back on the market” where her twenty-year-older self enters a “bad market.” There are already many film in the Getting-Ready-for-a-Wedding genre. Except for the last 15 minutes the film is banal and boring compared to even such light fare as Four Wedding and a Funeral. If you want to see an initially funny and the deep film about marriage, see the splendid Barney’s Version. The writer Mordecai Richler uses a plot line in Barney’s Version that I once had developed but now no longer can claim as mine: Boy waits long time to marry. Has found great spouse. But at the wedding he meets someone who he instantaneously recognizes as the person he should have married. Bridesmaides never reaches such deep waters.
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