As a raunchy wedding farce taking the insecure maid of honour as its subject, Leslye Headland’s corrosively funny debut was always going to face comparisons to Bridesmaids. That’s unfair, and not just because Headland’s original play predates that 2011 hit.
Bachelorette is very much its own bitter brew, using the comic framework of a botched, coke-fuelled hen night to examine the stinging self-loathing exposed in three women by another’s happiest day.
Kirsten Dunst is on scorching form as the Type-A personality who can scarcely accept that her less attractive best friend (Rebel Wilson, playing it atypically straight) has beaten her to the aisle; Isla Fisher and Lizzy Caplan provide riotous support as her more ragged cohorts.
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