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BACHELORETTE (2012)Movie Reviews
Comedy about three best friends asked to be bridesmaids for a girl they used to ridicule in high school. Cast:Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, Rebel Wilson, James Marsden, Adam ScottDirector:Leslye HeadlandRelease Date:September 7, 2012DVD Release:March 19, 2013From:The Weinstein CompanyRating:RLength:1 hr 31 min
Bachelorette (2012) played in key cities to mixed reviews. • Peter Keough wrote in the Boston Phoenix, "...subverts expectations with its mordant honesty and its hilarious balancing of sensitivity and scatalogy... the best ensemble cast of the year..." • And Claudia Puig wrote in USA Today, "It's a poor man's 'Hangover' and a humorless, toxic 'Bridesmaids' wannabe." More Reviews Below...
Alynda Wheat, People: MODERATE(cg) "Becky's bridal attendants are druggy mean girls who mock her, ruin her dress, then try to fix it. Frankly, I can't even see why they're pals."(See all of Alynda Wheat's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 53 words, 09/06/12
Mary Pols, Time: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...half the fun is seeing just how awful this trio can be to each other... As the enticingly malicious froth Leslye Headland has built up deflates, so does the movie."(See all of Mary Pols's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 946 words, 09/07/12
Charles Thorp, Us Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...riotous... Be warned: The flick is massively mean-spirited. The gals hire a male stripper who calls the bride 'pig face'!"(See all of Charles Thorp's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 97 words, 09/06/12
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: VERY GOOD(cg) "There's a rush in seeing actresses this charming take on characters who are this disagreeable. You'll laugh, maybe a lot, but you won't feel great about it in the morning."(See all of Owen Gleiberman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 383 words, 08/31/12
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...shows no mercy in mixing mirth and malice.... Sadly, 'Bachelorette' is a comic cocktail that goes heavy on the bitters. That's no way to end a wedding."(See all of Peter Travers's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 172 words, 08/31/12
Claudia Puig, USA Today: WEAK(cg) "Talented actors are wasted in a film that induces more cringes than chuckles... It's a poor man's 'Hangover' and a humorless, toxic 'Bridesmaids' wannabe."(See all of Claudia Puig's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 502 words, 09/06/12
James Berardinelli, Reel Views: POOR(cg) "...so bad it makes me want to go into seclusion and never see another film.... appears incapable of recognizing the difference between what's funny and what's simply crude."(See all of James Berardinelli's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 874 words, 08/31/12
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (9 Reviews)
Stephen Holden, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...viciously funny... comes at you with the crackling intensity of machine-gun fire. Maybe the safest way to watch it is by peeking out from a behind a sandbag."(See all of Stephen Holden's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 802 words, 09/07/12
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: POOR(cg) "What's off-putting about this movie is how desperate the filmmakers are to exploit other people's ideas.... this movie is absolutely empty at its core."(See all of Elizabeth Weitzman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 386 words, 09/07/12
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "...billed as a comedy, but it's really a lipstick-smeared drunken tragedy. The humor is so caustic you won't know whether to laugh or cry... it's one giant pity party..."(See all of Betsy Sharkey's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 689 words, 09/07/12
Sara Stewart, New York Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...delivers a steady stream of enjoyably bad-to-worse antics, and gleefully amoral performances from Andrew Rannells ('Girls') and James Marsden..."(See all of Sara Stewart's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 446 words, 09/07/12
Roger Moore, Chicago Tribune: MODERATE(cg) "...a pretty serious squandering of major-league movie talent... We don't invest in anybody... It's a tease for a movie the filmmaker couldn't deliver."(See all of Roger Moore's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 461 words, 09/07/12
David Edelstein, New York Magazine: GOOD "...isn't what you'd call fun -- it's not 'Bridesmaids 2'.... But lovely women doing genuinely ugly things makes for a potent combination."(See all of David Edelstein's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 464 words, 08/31/12
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: WEAK(cg) "When the three main characters are so thoroughly unlikable, who are we supposed to root for, other than the person responsible for bringing us the closing credits?"(See all of Richard Roeper's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 687 words, 09/07/12
Chris Packham, Village Voice/LA Weekly: MODERATE "...a plot that recalls the 'into the night' genre of the 1980s... old-school picaresques in which humble figures are swept into the gulf stream of an unstoppable event..."(See all of Chris Packham's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 776 words, 09/05/12
KEY CITIES (6 Reviews)
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: POOR(cg) "...a sour, only fitfully funny affair... feels like it's about four women who, not even all that deep down, can't stand one another. It's easy to see why."(See all of Michael O'Sullivan's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 562 words, 09/07/12
Kristin Tillotson, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: MODERATE(cg) "...who cares if no lessons seem to be learned?... 'Bachelorette' commits only one crime, but it's a make-or-break offense -- it's just not quite funny enough."(See all of Kristin Tillotson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 519 words, 09/07/12
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD(cg) "...full of drugs and sex and sharp, funny dialogue that I'm not allowed to type for a family news organization.... Dunst is the realest, rawest thing in the film."(See all of Wesley Morris's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 657 words, 09/07/12
Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...a rip-off of 'Bridesmaids'... But it's more like a gender-bent 'The Hangover'.... it has its own charms, and its own problems."(See all of Stephen Whitty's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 519 words, 09/07/12
Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: MODERATE(cg) "...if Headland never quite gets the balance right, ya gotta admire her bold juxtaposition of overdose-resuscitation gags with lessons on self-loathing and bulimia."(See all of Amy Biancolli's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 351 words, 09/07/12
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: VERY GOOD(cg) "...the fact that Leslye Headland is able to provide glimpses of our worst selves amid all the raunchy humor is surprising and impressive."(See all of Connie Ogle's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 569 words, 09/07/12
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PRESS (8 Reviews)
Chris Packham, Village Voice/LA Weekly: MODERATE "...a plot that recalls the 'into the night' genre of the 1980s... old-school picaresques in which humble figures are swept into the gulf stream of an unstoppable event..."(See all of Chris Packham's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 776 words, 09/05/12
Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...subverts expectations with its mordant honesty and its hilarious balancing of sensitivity and scatalogy... the best ensemble cast of the year..."(See all of Peter Keough's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 146 words, 09/06/12
Keith Phipps, AV Club: MODERATE(cg) "...gets enough right as a movie that it's almost possible to look past the crippling flaw at its core: Spending time with these people is hellish."(See all of Keith Phipps's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 668 words, 09/06/12
Cynthia Fuchs, Pop Matters: POOR(cg) "The violence, the inebriation, and the sex -- had with exes and potential exes -- are all what you expect.... You've seen this movie before."(See all of Cynthia Fuchs's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 826 words, 09/07/12
Alison Willmore, Movieline: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "There's something to admire in its initial flag-planting outrageousness, even if it goes too far and then sheepishly pulls back to a more conventional conclusion."(See all of Alison Willmore's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 867 words, 09/06/12
R. Kurt Osenlund, Slant: VERY GOOD(cg) "...what smoothly pilots the viewer through the movie's peaks and valleys is its fabulous triple-threat of leading ladies... best in show is most definitely Isla Fisher..."(See all of R. Kurt Osenlund's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 614 words, 09/04/12
MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: POOR(cg) "...nasty and petty... unspeakably pitiless... These women are self-centered and selfish, manipulative people who revel in their assholishness..."(See all of MaryAnn Johanson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 739 words, 08/30/12
HIGHBROW PRESS (5 Reviews)
Stephen Holden, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...viciously funny... comes at you with the crackling intensity of machine-gun fire. Maybe the safest way to watch it is by peeking out from a behind a sandbag."(See all of Stephen Holden's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 802 words, 09/07/12
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "...billed as a comedy, but it's really a lipstick-smeared drunken tragedy. The humor is so caustic you won't know whether to laugh or cry... it's one giant pity party..."(See all of Betsy Sharkey's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 689 words, 09/07/12
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: VERY GOOD "...a rapier-sharp, fast-paced comedy of manners, less concerned with delivering big laughs than with exploring its characters and their complicated interactions."(See all of Andrew O'Hehir's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 646 words, 01/24/12
MOVIE INDUSTRY (4 Reviews)
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: WEAK "...a shrill, wedding-themed snipefest that seems determined to elevate backstabbing bitchery to the level of art. It doesn't quite get there."(See all of Justin Chang's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 819 words, 01/24/12
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...the establishing scenes have terrific energy and humor... the tonally inconsistent movie steadily acquires an odor of toxicity as the laughs become more mean-spirited."(See all of David Rooney's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,125 words, 01/24/12
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "...billed as a comedy, but it's really a lipstick-smeared drunken tragedy. The humor is so caustic you won't know whether to laugh or cry... it's one giant pity party..."(See all of Betsy Sharkey's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 689 words, 09/07/12
Stephen Holden, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...viciously funny... comes at you with the crackling intensity of machine-gun fire. Maybe the safest way to watch it is by peeking out from a behind a sandbag."(See all of Stephen Holden's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 802 words, 09/07/12
23.1 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
Bachelorette (2012)'s reviews are separated by an average 23.1 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
Bachelorette (2012) (33 reviews) Roll over dots for each review
Coverage:Bachelorette (2012)'s reviews cover 73.6% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 19,222 words involume (average is 20,194 words). Length:The film's reviews average 582 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
Reviews Broke 8 Days Before Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
Bachelorette (2012)'s reviews on average broke 8 days before opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is Bachelorette (2012)'s opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
Bachelorette (2012) (33 reviews, click on bars for reviews)
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