Universal / 2011 / 131 Minutes / Unrated
Street Date: September 20, 2011
Overall Grade 
Highly recommended
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne and Terry Crews
Director: Paul Feig
Plot Synopsis: The delightful Kristen Wiig, who's shone in dozens of supporting roles and on Saturday Night Live, hits a bull's-eye with her first lead role in Bridesmaids. Annie (Wiig) isn't doing so well; her bakery failed and she keeps sleeping with a good-looking louse (Jon Hamm, Mad Men), but she's always had her best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph, Away We Go) to buoy her up… until Lillian gets engaged. Annie becomes maid of honor, but another friend of Lillian's--the rich and lovely Helen (Rose Byrne, Get Him to the Greek)--wants to take over that position. Misadventures with bad Brazilian food, dress fittings, an unfortunate flight to Vegas, and a sympathetic traffic cop (Chris O'Dowd from British TV comedy The IT Crowd) follow, with increasingly hilarious results. Bridesmaids successfully balances raunchy comedy and character portrait. The embarrassing and socially catastrophic stuff, which in too many movies balloons into absurdity, is here kept in check just enough to allow Annie and the other characters to be multidimensional people--without the movie losing its comic capacity for cringe. (Actress Melissa McCarthy, of Mike & Molly, works miracles with a character than in most hands would be pure cartoon.) Wiig's enormous appeal keeps Annie sympathetic, even as she becomes more and more of a train wreck. Bridesmaids is both smart and dumb, raunchy and earnest, and altogether enjoyable.
Disc Features:
- Audio Commentary
- Line-O-Rama (HD, 12 min) — Broken into two parts, this pieces together the funniest improvised lines from the movie.
- Cholodecki's Commercial (HD, 1 min) — An amusing amateur TV spot from the jewelry store where Annie worked.
- Extended & Alternate Scenes (HD, 9 min) — Five sequences with more screen time of mom and the weird roommates.
- Gag Reel (HD, 4 min)
- Deleted Scenes (HD, 8 min)
- Made of Honor: Behind the Scenes of Bridesmaids (HD, 32 min) — With lots of BTS footage, including rehearsal videos, and interviews of the cast & crew throughout, this short making of piece is a standard overview of the production and working with the cast.
- Blind Date (HD, 2 min) — Along with the blind date deleted scene, we get another very funny sequence with Paul Rudd yelling obscenities called "Dave-O-Rama."
- Roommates (HD, 17 min)
- Cholodecki's (HD, 21 min) — A longer collection of deleted & alternate takes, including another TV commercial, featuring Annie's jewelry store boss.
- Drunk-O-Rama (HD, 4 min) — An assortment of alternate takes with Kristen Wiig acting drunk on an airplane.
- Pep Talk (HD, 3 min) — A pretty amusing series of improvised lines from the tennis match scene.
- Annie vs. Helen (HD, 7 min) — A shorten version of the rivalry between the two characters.
- Hold On (HD, 5 min) — Essentially, an extended cut of the movie's wedding sequence that acts like a contemporary music video for Wilson Phillips.
- Extended & Alternate Scenes (HD, 45 min)
- Gag Reel (HD, 6 min)
- Deleted Scenes (HD, 8 min)
20th Century Fox / 2010 / 528 Minutes / Unrated
Street Date: September 20, 2011
Genres: TV-series
Starring: Ed O'Neill, Ty Burrell and Eric Stonestreet
Plot Synopsis: Winner of six Emmy® Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Modern Family is a refreshingly hilarious look at what it means to be a family in today’s hectic, unpredictable world. While fledgling fathers Cameron and Mitchell struggle with learning the ropes of parenthood, long-time parents Claire and Phil try to keep the spice in their marriage amid the chaos of raising three challenging children. Meanwhile, family patriarch, Jay, has more than his hands full with his sexy, spirited wife, Gloria, and her precocious son. Still, no matter the size, shape or situation, family always comes first in this laugh-out-loud, critically acclaimed hit.
Disc Features:
Disc 1
- Deleted Family Interviewsn (HD, 4 min.)
- Deleted/Extended Scenes (HD, 10 min.)
- "Strangers on a Treadmill" Table Read (HD, 37 min.)
- Mitch's Flash Mob (HD, 3 min.)
- Deleted Family Interviews (HD, 5 min.)
- Deleted/Extended Scenes (HD, 11 min.)
- "Imagine Me Naked" Music Video (HD, 4 min.)
- Deleted Family Interviews (HD, 2 min.)
- Deleted/Extended Scenes (HD, 1 min.)
- Gag Reel (HD, 8 min.)
- 'Modern Family' Holidays (HD, 13 min.)
- Waiting for Oprah (HD, 4 min.)
- Chatting with Steve Levitan (HD, 4 min.)
- At Home with 'Modern Family' (HD, 6 min.)
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