I hope I'm wrong and Clegg really will tame the Tories - but I'm braced for this movie turning into One Shotgun Wedding and a Bloody Long Funeral.

Her brilliantly deadpan turn as a dispirited store clerk makes you wonder why she hasn't taken some more adventurous career choices to offset the endless slew of rom-coms.

Unfortunately, with its pummeling array of jokes, Bridesmaids suffers the eternal fate of so many stellar comedies — it's routinely dismissed as too enjoyable, too successful, to be 'great'.