Filmdrunk’s Vince Mancini is less-than-eager for the premiere of Bridesmaids, a movie he calls “The Hangover with Labia” — much like Matt’s WarmingGlow article called Garfunkel and Oates “Flight of the Concords — But American and With Women.” Mancini makes a point of saying that he’s been “chugging coffee and snorting lines of negativism all morning,” which is why he’s decided to forgo “a well-earned rant” on the film. But I’d kind of like to hear it because the only censure he does seem to air is that it’s just a lzy re-write of a successful movie, but this time starring women. But is this really such a surprise? After all, No Strings Attached and Friends with Benefits are the same damn movie — at least Bridesmaids is offering us a gender switch.
But I can’t help but wonder if it doesn’t have something to do with the fact that it is a gender switch — that there’s something inherently lamer about a movie starring women rather than men and that …
