Trailer: Friends With Kids
Mimi ON Jun 05, 2012 AT 2:08 pm
Friends With Kids
We’ve just got our hands on the first trailer for Friends With Kids, the new comedy starring Adam Scott, Jon Hamm (yum), Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Chris O’Dowd (who’s just been nominated for a BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award), Megan Fox and Edward Burns. Written by and starring Jennifer Westfeldt, long-term girlfriend of Jon Hamm, they don’t have kids..this is a clue.
You might recognise Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Chris O’Dowd from Bridesmaids as they all featured heavily in that comedy as well. However this film is about a close-knit circle of friends at that moment in life when children arrive and everything changes. The last two singles in the group observe the effect that kids have had on their friends’ relationships and wonder if there’s a better way. They decide to have a kid together – and date other people.
I saw this film at the Toronto Film Festival last year and really loved it, it’s very funny. There are big laughs and unexpected emotional truths as this unconventional ‘experiment’ leads everyone in the group to question the nature of friendship, family and, finally, true love.
Funnier than Bridesmaids and not just another lame romcom. I also high-fived writer Jennifer Westfeld after the movie, very distracted that she was standing next to my dream man, her boyfriend, I almost slapped her in the face, well that’s my excuse. Grrr, not jealous at all.
It’s in cinema’s in the UK June 29th
Watch the trailer below:
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i think discussions of a polbisse bridesmaids sequel being included in an article about ANOTHER bridget jones sequel is apropos. that was a film that was remarkably endearing, cute, funny, and, i think, genre defining at the time in the same way that bridesmaids is now. the first bridget jones sequel was atrocious, and nearly identical to the original film, but without many of the aspects that made it a good film. why can’t we just let a good thing be a good thing? i want to look back at bridesmaids fondly in five/ten years, which is something i can’t really do with bridget jones anymore, and even the hangover, because of its wretched sequel.
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