( EW.com ) -- Just a year or so ago , girls behaving `` badly '' — really raunchy , really messed up on drugs , really promiscuous and narcissistic — seemed to be a revolutionary flavor in movie comedy . To see how quickly it 's become the new normal , check out two current high-profile indie comedies . `` Bachelorette '' follows a bride-to-be and her three friends over the course of one endless , drunken , hapless bachelorette party . The movie would like to be `` Bridesmaids '' meets `` Superbad '' meets a very special episode of `` Snooki & JWoww . '' `` For a Good Time , Call ... '' tells the tender tale of two roommates who team up to launch a phone-sex line . Whatever their virtues or flaws , each of these movies makes the dirtiest episode of `` Sex and the City '' look like Doris Day fluff . `` Bachelorette , '' a sloshed-night-before-the-wedding comedy , is a movie that 's every bit as caustic and high-strung as its damaged-princess heroines . It opens in L.A. , where the sweet plus-size Becky ( Rebel Wilson , who was Kristen Wiig 's Cockney freak of a roommate in Bridesmaids ) informs her best friend , the platinum-blond ice queen Regan ( Kirsten Dunst ) , that she 's engaged , an announcement that Regan greets by just about choking on her salad with jealousy . That 's what a petty vixen she is . Most of `` Bachelorette '' takes place six months later , in Manhattan , on the eve of Becky 's nuptials , the perfect occasion for a bachelorette party that spins out of control . But this is n't a daffy clockwork farce like the Hangover films . It 's a revved-up pageant of naked feminine dysfunction , a comedy of values about young women who do n't have any . Toronto : Watching stars watch 'Looper ' Regan , the maid of honor , is joined by Becky 's two other childhood friends : Gena ( Lizzy Caplan ) , a gothy motormouthed train wreck , and Katie ( Isla Fisher ) , a terminally insecure ditz . These two spend the movie snorting enough cocaine to give an elephant a heart attack . As for Regan , she does n't need drugs — she gets high on hating others , and on hating herself , too . The entire movie is an overdose of wrecked party-girl masochism . The three bridesmaids end up tearing Becky 's humongous wedding dress asunder , and so they go out on the town , dragging the increasingly sorry garment around with them , trying to find a way to repair it even as it 's assaulted by various bodily fluids . `` Bachelorette '' is expertly shot and paced , with a script that 's as cutting as a serrated knife . It was written by its director , Leslye Headland ( who based it on her Off Broadway play ) , and her dialogue has a nasty misanthropic zing that ups the ante on `` Mean Girls '' and `` Heathers . '' Each of the trio has a guy she 's passively pursuing ( they 're played by James Marsden , Kyle Bornheimer , and the always droll Adam Scott ) , and the encounters with them are funny in a merciless , this-is-a-woman's-brain-on-drugs sort of way . There 's a rush in seeing actresses this charming take on characters who are this disagreeable . Yet if `` Bachelorette '' takes the form of a romantic ensemble comedy , it 's purged of any true romantic feeling . You 'll laugh , maybe a lot , but you wo n't feel great about it in the morning . 'Breaking Dawn 2 ' : Watch VMAs trailer . Where the characters in `` Bachelorette '' seem to be pining for an innocence they never had , the two heroines of `` For a Good Time , Call ... '' manage to outdo them in raunch and still come off as sweetly ingenuous . The movie , directed by Jamie Travis , is crudely shot and about as thin as a mediocre sitcom , yet its central situation is disarmingly funny — and , after a while , oddly winning . Lauren ( Lauren Miller ) , laid off from her publishing job , moves in with Katie ( Ari Graynor ) , a distant acquaintance she has despised since college ( the feeling is mutual ) . Neither one of them can really afford to live in New York City on her own . Katie , like the Lena Dunham character on HBO 's `` Girls , '' calls herself a `` writer , '' but she pays the rent by working for a phone-sex service , and that 's something she 's got a gift for . It 's Lauren who gets the idea of starting their own dirty-talk line . This is basically the kickoff for a high-concept farce , but it 's not just the matter-of-fact explicitness that 's funny . It 's the way that talking like lusty `` tramps '' on the phone liberates these two . Lauren Miller ( who co-wrote the script ) has a demure sneakiness , but it 's Ari Graynor 's movie — she 's like Kate Hudson possessed by the spirit of Bette Midler . And all the better off for it . Bachelorette : B For a Good Time , Call ... : B . See full article at EW.com . CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
` ` Wedding '' follows a bride - to - be and her three friends over the course of a bachelorette party . ` ` Bachelorette '' is a sloshed - night - before - the - wedding story . ` ` For a Good Time , Call ... '' tells the tale of friends who team up to create a safe - sex line .