The role of the wedding ceremony is sometimes also referred to as the “hardest part -time job in the world”. After all, she is not only primarily responsible for the organization and success of the hen party, the bride also advises when buying the dress for the most important day of her life and at the wedding itself ensures that bare-lying nerves are spared and actually already blank-out schedules are still being adhered to. But all of this can hardly afford all of this (played by “Senior Year” star Rebel Wilson) in the “Bride Hard” action comedy, after all, she also has the toughest full-time job in the world: as an undercover-cia agent.
The job is so secret that not even her best friend Betsy (Wilson's “Pitch Perfect” Co-Star Anna Camp) can experience something-and so (mis) interprets the prospective bride Sam's lack of brewery use as a lack of interest. Betsy's disappointment is also heated by Virginia (Anna Chlumsky), her sister -in -law in Spe, who would like to plan Betsy's wedding. When Sam then leaves the hen party in Paris early in order to solve a organic monkey alone, she is finally fired as a maid of honor. Unsightly, but Sam is just a lone fighter. Unfortunately, their CIA colleagues see it the same way and initially take the female answer to Rambo.
When it comes very hard, then maid of maid of dare Sam (Rebel Wilson) also reaches the tank fist!
So suddenly Sam has enough time to take part in the impressive wedding of her best friend. However, this is suddenly interrupted by a group of mercenaries, which takes the rich guests hostage. So Sam gets the chance to show her best friend what kind of maid of honor is actually in her …
From here on “Con Air” director Simon West gives its viewers, which the title based on the “Stirb Slow” saga (in the original yes “Die Hard”) promises: a collection of winking action scenes in high heels in front of wedding backgrounds! In addition to large -caliber weapons, the wedding cake, alcohol maneuvers, flirting and fireworks are used to combat the mercenaries for songs such as “It's Raining Men”. This is sometimes amusing, but often simply silly – and above all, a central gag is pretty good at some point over the term of 105 minutes.
It would have been better to take a role model on “True read”
Anyone who feels over an hour for over an hour how Rebel Wilson takes up with 27 muscle men will get their money's worth in “Bride Hard”, who awaits humor à la “Bride Wars” or “Bridal Valley”. Although all actresses play relaxed and confidently, the chemistry between the friends is missing. The punch lines are also rarely ignited and the wedding craze is not skilfully taken on the shovel, which is also due to the fact that there is no too much contrast between the existence of agent and the maid of ceremonial.
There would have been significantly more potential for comedy if Sam, for example, comes back from a particularly dangerous mission to the over-the-top, emotional hen party. How stressful can a world rescue be compared to a wedding? Instead, your job is simply ridiculed and because Sam seems to be invulnerable, the action scenes also lack any tension. Here the film could have taken an example of “True Lies” with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis, because there the conflict between the profession and private life of a secret agent is worked out much better (and above all funnier).
Overall, one would have wanted more chemistry between the maids in “Bride Hard”.
In “Bride Hard”, on the other hand, it seems more like Sam's fault that she does not get her private life and her job under a hat, which looks particularly surprising in a script from a woman, in this case Shaina Steinberg (“Chase”). James Bond is somehow never asked how he can do it with his work-life balance. In general, some things do not fit together: On the one hand, the huge property of the married family – somewhat progressive – is criticized, but on the other hand, the mercenaries are only shown as an unscrupulous bad guys, which can simply be slammed.
Jokes are made at the expense of thick people and sexuality only goes in one direction: the women want to “spoil” their men. But there are also modern twists, so friendship is about romantic love in this film about romantic love and the message of the film is timelessly good: Together we are stronger than alone – whether at work or private. So dear maid of honor: Ask for help – even if the wedding of your bride is certainly not quite as blatant as this.
Conclusion: If you want to fight in high heels, you get a lot, the other narrative strands were negotiated better in other films – from “Die Slow” to “True Lies”.