Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar : They Should ve Stayed Home Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar : They Should ve Stayed Home
Latest comedy from the brains behind Bridesmaids feels like a feature-length sketch devoted to two imaginary SNL characters, sans the laughs
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Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is designed to be difficult to dislike but if you’re not the type to back down from a challenge, it gets easier. The purposely messy, garish and disposable comedy from
Bridesmaids writers Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, who also star as the fortysomething Midwesterners of the title, is so determinedly low-stakes that to quibble with its candy-colored craving to be liked is to be a terrible killjoy. So, fine, bring it on: In the spirit of the film’s villain, who’s turned psychopathically cruel through unpopularity, we present this review, cackling mirthlessly while plotting the pointless mass-murder of innocent pleasures.