'Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar' Director Breaks Down Those Surprise Cameos (Exclusive)
Author: John Boone
Updated: 7:30 AM PST February 16, 2021
The best scene in
Bridesmaids, by most accounts, is the airplane sequences, in which Kristen Wiig's jilted maid of honor gets zoinked out, has her fear of flying stoked by her seatmate (played by co-writer Annie Mumolo) then commandeers the P.A. to shout about a colonial woman on the wing. Take that absurdity and stretch it to 100-or-so minutes, add more wigs and zany non sequiturs, and you're somewhere in the ballpark of
Mumolo and Wiig star as Barb and Star, respectively, culottes-loving best friends who leave their Midwestern bubble for an adventure to the Florida coast, where they fall in lust, ride a banana boat and thwart a megalomaniac villain's murderous plot. It's the type of silly for silly's sake comedy that's rarely made anymore, a relentlessly goofy and delightfully earnest romp with endlessly quotable one-liners and starring a murderers' row of scene stealers.