Bachelorette DVD Review



Title: Bachelorette
Script / Direction: Leslye Headland,
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan, Isla Fisher, Rebel Wilson
Run Time: 91 minutes
Released: October 7th, 2013

Writer/Director Leslye Headland adapted her own stage play of the same name to bring Bachelorette to the screen. Starring the talents of Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan, Isla Fisher and Rebel Wilson) four school friends who meet up years after graduating for Becky’s bachelorette party.

Bachelorette DVDRegan (Dunst) is a career woman, in her 30s, she’s not really living up to her dreams or talents. She’s unhappy. Becky (Wilson) is getting married to her boyfriend, Dale. Gena (Caplan) is cynical and grumpy and the drug-taking party girl Katie (Fisher).

They all meet up for the bachalorette party in New York. The bachalorette party is a disaster and the three girls go off on a drinking and drugs spree, without the bride-to-be who has gone to bed. The girls go to the wedding dress shop to see the wedding dress but it gets torn as the girls try it on. Now they must race against time to dis-arm the nuclear bomb and save New York..... oh sorry I mean, fix the dress and save the wedding...... oh who cares?

The four lead actresses are all better than this material and deserve to be in better movies. Dunst, especially, is really slumming it here but Caplan has shown she is above this type of trashy material whilst Fisher who is only just below her normal level is still too good for Bachalorette.

The script is sloppy as is the lacklustre direction. I can’t see how this would have made a good stage play and although it seems as though it would more easily translate to film, it doesn’t. It’s fairly boring and it simply doesn’t seem like the girls are having much fun. Not surprising, neither will you watching it. Rent The Hangover instead.

Author : Kevin Stanley