Kristen Wiig Night

I fell into the world of Saturday Night Live mainly due to the hilarity of The Lonely Island and their spectacular music videos. Then I found myself trawling though YouTube videos and watching old streams of SNL. The women of SNL are incredible and perfectly imperfect - Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Molly Shannon and Kristen Wiig.

Now the reason I focus now on Wiig is that her versatility is astounding, she can be funny and charming to dramatic to crass, then there’s her vocal talents. So here in no particular order are my favourite Wiig movies.

1.      Bridesmaids (2011)

Wiig’s most commercially successful movie to date, Excluding her roles animated features such as franchises’ How To Train Your Dragon ($394m combined gross) and Despicable Me franchise ($612.5m combined gross).  She co-wrote along with Annie Mumolo her first feature length picture and what a smash it was. Hilarious and fearless, Wiig and Mumolo’s script is perfectly shameful. It shows what a great partnership Wiig and Melissa McCarthy can be. *wink*ghostbusters*wink*

2.      Skeleton Twins (2014)

A wonderful piece of dramedy that shows Wiig’s full potential and bounces off Bill Hader wonderfully as her twin brother Milo. Milo and Wiig’s character Maggie are entering a phase of crisis both struggling with their lives, after not seeing each other in 10 years they go through a turbulent reunion in which they eventually find solace. Wiig really seems to excel in seeing the comedy in tragedy and sadness, it really suits her.  A really great supporting cast with Luke Wilson as Maggie’s husband Lance and the wonderful Ty Burrell as Milo’s ex-teacher Rich.

3.      The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

Another picture that shows the scope of her talent. The object of Walter Mitty’s affection she proves herself as an actor with depth and humour, which can often be a battlefield of emotion.

4.      Friends With Kids (2012)

Not one of the best pictures of that year and pretty much straight to DVD/Streaming. But Wiig’s performance is perfection, thought largely being and ensemble comedy there are veins of drama that run through the movie and it’s in these moments of complete and utter painful heartbreak that Wiig reaches a new level. She really surpasses herself as an actress capable to true drama.

5.      Ghostbusters

Ok So I know that it’s not out yet and there’s no footage or anything, but I’ll be damned if Wiig doesn’t carry this movie. I really think an all-female cast from most of who are from SNL is an excellent. As Dan Aykroyd was an SNL cast member at the time of inception of the idea he had intended his fellow SNL buddy John Belushi to be a part of the project. SNL is part of Ghostbuster’s ectoplasm.

Worthy Wiig mentions –

Hateship Loveship (2013) (which I haven’t been able to get my hands on yet),

All Good Things (2010)

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

Wiig movies to look out for –

Welcome to Me (Out 8^th May 2015),

Diary of a Teenage Girl (18^th March 2015)

Nasty Baby (no release date found as of yet, was a contender at Sundance Film Festival)

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards (no details found as of yet, has a wicked cast so we’ll see)

And this!! Let's not forget Kristen's apperance on the 2015 Grammy's with Sia -

Keep doing what you're doing Kristen!