They’ve also been roommates since Barb’s husband died and Star’s husband left, sleeping in twin beds in the same room, Bert and Ernie–style. Barb and Star are lifelong best friends, who work together at Jennifer Convertibles (you know, the couch store) in a Midwestern strip mall.
(It also made a lot of money.)īarb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar doesn’t seem destined to set off anything so earth-shaking it’s really just here to have a good time and get a tan. That film generated a lot of chatter about women-centered comedy, especially of the gross-out variety. Mumolo and Wiig’s last team effort, a decade ago, was the smash hit Bridesmaids. Those ladies are played, respectively, by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, who also wrote the film (directed by Josh Greenbaum). The sing-songy title announces the movie’s tone: This is a tale of two middle-aged ladies who go to Florida for some fun in the sun and, inevitably, some adventures. Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo in Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.
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Like last year’s odd but entertaining Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar suffers a little from not being able to watch it in a room full of people primed to giggle and snort-laugh their way through its jokes.
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So, Bill and Ted: Meet Barb and Star, the dynamic duo at the center of one of the stranger and more delightful modern comedies to hit - well, normally I’d say the “big screen,” but the movie is not launching into a big-screen-friendly era. The characters are stranger the situations are more implausible the jokes are more off-beat, more aimed at a niche audience. Studio comedies from the 1990s are, on balance, significantly weirder than the dwindling number of comedies on offer thus far in the 2020s (up to and including everything that stars Will Ferrell).
After I watched the Bill and Ted movies last year for the first time (I know!), I wrote about how much I appreciate that kind of sweet kookiness in comedies - the sort of story ideas you simply can’t imagine a filmmaker pitching today, let alone a studio executive greenlighting.
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