First Vista Del Mar, now Hollywood!
12.02.2021 - 18:38 / hollywoodreporter.com
After setting a new gold standard for the female buddy comedy with the 2011 smash Bridesmaids, Kristen Wiig and co-writer Annie Mumolo reunite on both sides of the camera to riff on a model popularized in the 1980s and '90s. Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar is so indebted to fluffy pleasures like Outrageous Fortune and Romy and Michele's High School Reunion that you almost expect a Touchstone Pictures logo to pop up.
First Vista Del Mar, now Hollywood!
Paul Feig has never struggled to get big-name stars for his films. Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy, Anna Kendrick, and many more have starred in his films over the years.
Fans might be enjoying Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar, but it won’t be eligible for some big recognition.
Film School Rejects, Thompson is actually the next best thing to Freeman if you can’t score the real actor, because Thompson’s impression of Freeman is so on point.
Kristen Wiig has finally shared the names of her twins almost a year after welcoming them via surrogate. In the end credits for her new comedy,, the little ones' first names are listed in the «Special Thanks» section. The listing reads, «Avi, Luna & Shiloh.» Wiig recently revealed her longtime love, Avi Rothman, is now her husband, meaning Luna and Shiloh are likely the names of their twins.
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.
It’s safe to say that 2020 was a rough year (career-wise) for Jamie Dornan after he was slated for his Irish accent in Wild Mountain Thyme.
Kristen Wiig has revealed her kids’ names eight months after they were born.
Kristen Wiig is gearing up for the release of her new comedy flick Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar and that’s not all that she’s releasing.
Kristen Wiig welcomed twins into the world last year via surrogate and we finally have learned their names, one year later.
Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorJamie Dornan is happy to get silly, even showing up for an interview sporting a bikini t-shirt, swag from his new film.
If America currently howls in psychic pain, broken and divided, suffering from various emotional, spiritual, political crises, hemorrhaging each day in existential agony from the soul-crushingly bleak, relentlessly interminable horror that is life during a pandemic and the failure of leadership to see us through it, let me submit to you that American comedy is also lost and in deep crisis.
Bridesmaids” premiered a decade ago and became an undeniable box office smash.
Jamie Dornan is opening up about his early career as a model and his time spent as a reality TV contestant!
Watch Video: 'Barb & Star' Trailer: Watch Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo Awkwardly Flirt With Jamie DornanAfter the furniture store they work in shuts down, the women decide it’s time to shake things up, so they take a friend’s suggestion and travel to Vista Del Mar, a Florida island that’s a vacation paradise for travelers over the age of 45.What they don’t realize is that a mad scientist (also Wiig) plans to get her revenge on the town by unleashing a swarm of killer mosquitos during the annual
There's a tiny oasis on the west coast of Florida where the men wear Tommy Bahama from head to toe and women of a certain age stroll around poolside in tube tops and full jewelry.It's a “middle-age Nirvana” where crabs talk and you can eat veal-stuffed manatee while wearing your evening culottes and sip tropical drinks served in a mini-aquarium.This oasis is called Vista Del Mar and it's the whacky invention of Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, who co-wrote and co-star in “Barb and Star Go to Vista
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticOn “Saturday Night Live,” sketch characters arrive, connect with the audience (or not), and hit occasional sustained peaks of popularity, becoming laugh-riot fixtures and old friends. For a while, starting in the ’90s, the highest honor you could bestow upon an “SNL” character was for him or her to be given their own spin-off movie.