We braved the holiday crowds last night to catch Bridesmaids. I need to see it again because the sold-out crowd was laughing so loud I’m sure we all missed half the dialogue. It’s every bit as funny as the rave reviews have claimed. I love Kristen Wiig.

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I was cold sober when I saw Bridesmaids so I’m pretty sure there’s extra stuff in the trailer, but maybe I missed some things. (see also: loud laughing audience).

I hope the wild success of bridesmaids encourages everyone to see another recent Kristen Wiig movie, the criminally under-appreciated Paul. When we saw Paul we were the only ones in the theater. No, I’m exaggerating – I think there were 2 other people there.

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Paul, incidentally, co-stars Jason Bateman, who is apparently in 90% of the movies being released in 2011. Two trailers before Bridesmaids featured Bateman, which was just confusing, since neither trailer was distinctive or particularly interesting so they just blended together into one long, uninteresting and deeply confusing movie trailer.