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Nearly 10 years after their Oscar-nominated smash-hit comedy
Bridesmaids made its way into theaters worldwide, Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo are back for their second screenwriting collaboration with the wacky, surrealistic new comedy,
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, which also stars Mumolo and Wiig in the title roles. With a supporting ensemble that includes Jamie Dornan, Damon Wayans Jr., Vanessa Bayer, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Phyllis Smith, and a few surprise celebrity cameos, this is an appropriately star-studded cast. If you re wondering where or how you recognize all the high-profile people involved with this movie, we re here to help.
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar Director Breaks Down Those Surprise Cameos (Exclusive)
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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 wi
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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.
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“…Go to Vista Del Mar” plays by its own rules of absurdism and rides that wave all the way to shoreAlonso Duralde | February 11, 2021 @ 6:00 PM Last Updated: February 21, 2021 @ 1:57 PM
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Barb and Star do indeed go to Vista Del Mar in “Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar,” but viewers are advised to put their maps away and let the movie follow its own deranged path. A goofy and absurdist comedy in which anything can happen, and it usually will, Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo’s long-awaited follow-up to the 2011 hit “Bridesmaids” absolutely plays by its own rules.
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