Bride Wars (2009)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Thanks for the memories!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

With a good director in Gary Winick and two big stars in the leads (Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway) this film should have been great.And to be fair it has it's moments, but about half way in the whole friendship of the girls is thrown away and they resort to doing very silly things.While its lovely to see these two glamorous women do lots of slapstick and physical comedy (maybe the reason they both signed on to do this film), the film has such a thin premise that it runs out of steam quickly.A shame, this could've been great.

I have no idea why this movie got sooo many bad reviews! This movie was funny, warm and sweet at times, and very well acted. Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway represented their roles great here! Also, Chris Pratt, Candice Bergen, and Kristen Johnson are here, and were all entertaining. Kristen Johnson was especially hilarious here in my opinion. The dance off sequence was very cool and entertaining. Also, all the wild antics that the 2 stars engage in throughout the movie are cool to see. The dialogue was pretty good, not great, but still not bad at all. Me and my whole family laughed and had a lot of fun with Bride Wars, I have no clue why so many people didn't do the same. Yes, it's no cinematic masterpiece, and yes, it can be a little bit cliché at times, but what's so bad about that? Overall a 7/10 for Bride Wars, bottom line is, it's a lot of fun!

Bride Wars stars Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway as two brides-to-be who go to great lengths to have a wedding in June. This is the setup for a dirty war between the two friends in which they try sabotage each other's wedding. It's a cliché but then again this is obviously what people call a chick flick. Unfortunately, this war turns out to be rather uneventful. There's nothing too mean here so the worst thing that Hudson's Olivia does to Hathaway's Emma is to make her tan turn bright orange. Emma then tampers with Olivia's hair dye to turn her hair a shocking blue-white colour. The film is actually appealing though it's at best average on all fronts. Forgettable Hollywood products like Bride Wars usually get released in January. I guess the one reason to watch the film is to see Hudson and Hathaway working together. In addition, the relationships that the two women have with their fiances are handled well. One should watch the interesting Unscripted video with the two actresses on the internet in which they ask each other questions. Hathaway mentioned that she starred in Bride Wars because it includes a fight between the two brides. In conclusion, the film is light entertainment. There's nothing original about it, and it's a chick flick through and through. I must admit that I watched it because of Anne Hathaway.

Starring: Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson These two FEMME-FATALES, in distress, are desperate to boot. However, they have been desperate as the film notes quite cutely from the beginning of the film, to get married from the time that they were six, and best rich buddies who frequented the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria together with their moms for tea and brunch-time. The two quite adorably played "bride and groom" games, though not with any inappropriate over-tones, in the attic of one of their parents' house, when around the same age; coached by their moms that marriage was the best way to go (as if there were any other way; the film takes an old-fashioned view-point), the two are remarkable in their steadfast belief that, indeed, marriage is the best way to get someone to rely on you, and you on they, forever and ever, 'till death do us part. The quaint old phrase, "something old something new, something borrowed something blue" is used to show the film's exquisitely doll-like vision of marriage; in this day and age, with things not turning out perfectly as they should half the time, it is a wonder that they pulled together this altogether believable, yet somewhat superficial film, for our times. The girls grow up to be somewhat selfish, busy professionals, one of them a supposed lawyer who spends half the time talking on her phone; while the other is a middle- school teacher (Anne Hathaway), and the one friend opines that "middle school is a jungle" sympathizing with her friend who has to deal with rowdy almost-teenagers. In addition, we find that, the two, while tightly bonded in their beautiful friendship, share jealousy issues whenever the topic of marriage, which brought them together in the first place, is broached. When the brunette protagonist gets engaged before her blond one (played by Kate Hudson), then it is clear that there is a storm on the horizon. Besides the fact that both ideally want to get married at once, to lessen the jealous tension, they both know how badly, and, to be honest, how downright desperate they are to prove someone wants to marry them, each other really is. Liv and Emma are the names of these two beauties, who truly want to get married (other aspirations in their lives aren't thoroughly explored; this is a film about weddings, after all); and then we learn who is more desperate when the "friends" cast threatening glances at one another, almost claw at each other's faces to grab the suspected engagement ring away when it appears that one of the girl's boyfriend's has left them a ring in a Tiffany box (it turns out that the ring was a booby trap; set up so that the girl would think that she was about to be asked to be married, her fiancée tricks her later into thinking that he actually wasn't proposing, but then chides her for her "poor faith" because, yes, all along, he had been planning it, but was doubted that her impatience, which wasn't a virtue, would allow her to wait long enough to get into the right mood and the right moment). Is this clear? Anyway, she literally jumps up on him like an "inappropriately in-love" monkey who is showing off that she can do gymnastics for the first time, and then they are officially engaged (with this ring, I thee wed, are almost the words one can hear off into the distance). Anne Hathway's beau plans the romantic event somewhat differently; he creatively offers the girl of his dream her beautiful ring (and her best friend asks her all about it; what carat is it? Is it wide? What color is it? Weight, length, and luster? Brand? Country of origin? And so on...) in a fortune cookie, and after some confusion about who takes which cookie (as she doesn't know the significance of this ritual at this particular time), later on following up the act with the traditional, resounding words to every woman's ears: "Will you marry me?" The two hug then, and, might I add that they are a better-fitting, match-made-in-heaven couple than most, including that of Liv and her beau (they seem ill-paired, and not a good match, at all). So there you have it, two desperate women, who appear to have it all, suddenly both have husbands; now, what's the problem?! What more could they want, right? Therein lies the dilemma of the movie, the plot-line, the very heart of the matter: both of them want to reserve (quite stupidly, in the eyes of many) weddings in the same place, at the same exact time. So, you have two desperate, bimbo-y girls, who won't give in; sounds like a recipe for a cat-fight, to me. Neither one wants to admit she made a mistake, and neither one wants to be later than the other in terms of getting married. It's silly, really, but somebody has to make us laugh. So, then you have the two girls tearing each other down, and an accident happens which makes Emma scream (her hair-dresser has dyed her hair blue). . . . . (She screams bloody murder, wanting to kill the one who made this glitch in her plans, though, in all reality, she can really just simmer down, because, blond dye is available to dye it back, again, honey). In the end, there are plenty more antics where those came from from the two prom-queens from hell, and we find that immaturity never ends, even when you are in your thirties and ready to settle down, apparently. I guess that what makes the film such a winner is that it follows so logically: of course, the two "bride-zillas" would be at each other's throats, because, both of them caught the bouquet at one of their SNARKY, sneaky, and competitive (and backstabbing) friend's weddings, at the very same time!!!!!