marriage doesn't suck

We just watched Bridesmaids on HBO OnDemand at my parents' house. Hilarious. However, it's the latest in number of otherwise comedies that insist on uniformly painting marriage as a horrible dungeon while still wanting the audience to root for the protagonist to find happiness by...what else? Getting married.

In this movie, each of the bridesmaids shares that their married lives are terrible. The only exception is the groom's sister, who proceeds to share that the groom is a "let's face it, a complete asshole." So now the bride is going to be in a terrible marriage.

OK, I get it, Bridesmaids is not Film. It's not Cinema. It's not even Comedy. It's comedy. With a lot of gross out humor. So I'm not expecting deep character growth, or even meaningful character arcs. But how about at least one person with a normal marriage. And I don't mean a perfect marriage. Or a boring a marriage. It could even be a sub-par marriage. Or one that is good most of the time, but has some low points. It would at least draw some contrasts, and make for an interesting movie. But in the absence of doing so, what are we left to infer from this fairly consistent (Old School, I Love You Man) record is that marriage blow goats.