‘Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar’
As someone who loved the wacky mid-budget comedies of the 2000s—Hot Rod, MacGruber, Anchorman, to name a few—perhaps it’s no surprise that I adored Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar, the new bonkers film from Bridesmaids writers Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo. While the Film Twitter part of my brain was whispering that the movie was uneven, the happy-making part of my brain simply did not care. Barb & Star is just pure, unadulterated fun. No one is reconciling with the death of their dad or wrestling the neverending dread of existence in this movie. It’s just two middle-aged women on their first vacation (Wiig and Mumolo), one gorgeous himbo (Fifty Shades star Jamie Dornan), a couple of musical numbers, and a banana boatload of extremely silly jokes. I haven’t laughed this hard in months.