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Currently Reading Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar Review: Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo Are Perfectly Daft As Middle American Fuddy-duddies on Vacation
In their first script since Bridesmaids, the two actresses have given themselves a modest but winning vehicle.
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Director: Josh Greenbaum
With: Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo, Jamie Dornan, Damon Wayans Jr., Vanessa Bayer, Fortune Feimster, Phyllis Smith, Reyn Doi, Ian Gomez, Michael Hitchcock, Kwame Patterson, Wendi McLendon-Covey.
On “Saturday Night Live,” sketch characters arrive, connect with the audience (or not), and hit occasional sustained peaks of popularity, becoming laugh-riot fixtures and old friends. For a while, starting in the ’90s, the highest honor you could bestow upon an “SNL” character was for him or her to be given their own spin-off movie. That era faded (in 2010, “MacGruber” drove a stake through its heart), but that wa
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Kristen Wiig and Bridesmaids co-writer Annie Mumolo reteam in this screwy comedy about two Nebraskan friends who pack their best culottes and hit a Florida resort for midlife singles.
After setting a new gold standard for the female buddy comedy with the 2011 smash
Bridesmaids, Kristen Wiig and co-writer Annie Mumolo reunite on both sides of the camera to riff on a model popularized in the 1980s and 90s.
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar is so indebted to fluffy pleasures like
Outrageous Fortune and
Romy and Michele s High School Reunion that you almost expect a Touchstone Pictures logo to pop up. An unapologetically delirious frolic in which lifelong friendship is tested by romance, adventure and the mass-extermination plan of an archvillain, this disarming escape to turquoise waters and a seafood buffet will be just what many folks need right now.