The first problem: The plot “is described as revolving around women competing to plan a friend’s wedding party.” Wow, women getting catty about something wedding related? That sounds slightly… unoriginal. So let’s hope there will be some sort of fresh approach, and that it will come nowhere near the heinousness of Saturday Night Live alum Casey Wilson’s unwatchable Bride Wars.

The second problem: The increasing backlash against Kristen’s alleged spotlight-hogging on SNL. The writers have been using her rubber face and knack for impersonations in almost ever sketch this season, and there is such a phenomenon as “too much of a good thing.” Will we already be tired of her schtick by the time the movie comes out?

But it’s not all bad news. Judd Apatow and Paul Feig created Freaks and Geeks, which became something of a cult classic, so clearly they know how to spot a good thing. (Not to mention Apatow’s success with Knocked Up, Superbad and the rest.) And despite Kristen’s hilarious/exhausting performances on SNL every week, she’s yet to break out. It’s about damn time she’s headlining a project.

Apatow, Feig reteaming on Wiig pic [Variety]

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I know, I know, Katherine Heigl is America’s next sweetheart.  The poster girl for the romantic comedy, whose star is steadily on the rise and joining the ranks of such epic sweethearts and Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan.  The only difference between these starlets?  Julia and Meg don’t suck.  Now, I’m sure many of you out there are brimming with anger and overflowing with love for Heigl, but don’t tell her that just yet.

This is the same woman that pulled her name out of Emmy contention because she did not feel the writers gave her “good enough” material to work with and then slammed the Grey’s Anatomy producers for making her work long hours, when it was them who were working around her promotional schedule for The Ugly Truth.  And to top it all off, she bit the almighty hands of Judd Apatow and (my boyfriend) Seth Rogen, saying that Knocked Up was “sexist” and “portrayed women as shrews.” Katherine, have you forgetten that these are the men that pulled you out of television obscurity to make you a star?  I have not seen The Ugly Truth, nor do I intend to because I have half a brain, but I’m willing to bet that a movie about a “hopeless, single woman’s search for love” not only plays up sexual stereotypes, but it also sounds boring… and stupid.  That’s the ugly truth.

And that’s for cutting up Seth Rogen.  Ain’t no one talkin’ smack about my man.

Image Credit:  Fame Pictures

Sources: Vanity Fair and TVSquad

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