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Reviews Counted:130
Fresh:16
Rotten:114
Average Rating:3.4/10
Consensus: Bride Wars takes the already wearisome concept of battling bridezillas, and makes it thoroughly insufferable via a lazy script and wholly detestable characters.
Theatrical Release:09-01-2009
Synopsis: Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) are best friends who since childhood have planned every detail of their respective weddings. At the top of their bridal "must have" list: a ceremony at... [More]
Starring: Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Kristen Johnson, Bryan Greenberg
Director: Gary Winick
This comedy about female best friends whose bond is shattered when their weddings fall on the same date occasionally displays a desire to explore the nature of friendship and love, but unfortunately such moments of insight take a backseat to increasingly
It’s hard to warm to these superficial women who learn the error of their ways in such an unconvincingly hasty fashion.
Top CriticAnne Hathaway has a few shining moments in this bridal face-off but getting to the altar is still a tiring slog.
Top CriticWhen did chick flicks become so suffused with hatred for womankind? Surely a movie about girls and aimed at girls shouldn’t make us feel so bad about being girls?
Top CriticOur deepest condolences to Hudson as the ironically named "Liv". Her dead eyes and rouged cheeks suggest she's bypassed the wedding and gone straight to the funeral.
Top CriticThe movie makes a ridiculous ass of itself, but as a run-for-the-hills endurance test for straight men everywhere, it’s almost fascinating.
Top CriticA jaw-clenchingly unfunny insult to both sexes and everyone’s intelligence, it redefines the term ‘bridal shower’.
Even at this early stage of the year, Bride Wars is certain to rank among the ten worst releases of 2009.
Imaginative it ain’t but, in all, it’s an agreeably girly accompaniment to a box of Maltesers. You might also want to take along some earplugs.
If you see anyone trying to flog this as a dodgy DVD in the pub, report them to the police. It really is criminal.
A story so ludicrous and soft-centred that none of the actors has much of a chance, and both comedy and romance seem stifled at birth. Everyone concerned seems to have given up halfway through. You can’t blame them.
Watchable comedy, enlivened by strong performances from Hudson and Hathaway and a decent script that isn't afraid to make the central friendship the most important relationship in the movie.
A lively tone and sharp performances help bring this rather thin comedy to life
One week into 2009 and we already have a contender for worst film of the year.
reptilian, hateful stuff, biologically engineered to disrespect--with maximum efficiency--the precise demographic to which it targets itself.
It's like the Whack-a-Mole of everything reasonable people hate about so-called 'chick flicks.' [Blu-ray]
Guys, this one's for the ladies.
Enough to make one yearn for the rich complexity of Home Improvement.
It's a movie that mistakenly believes that we should want to like these people.
There are no pleasant surprises in this partly-Boston-shot Gary Winick film.
January 19, 2009:
Having its wedding cake and eating it too, this malevolent catfight catastrophe in chick flick lite clothing, satirizes that nuptial consumer orgy, while gorging on the excesses of matrimonial materialism. 
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January 17, 2009:
Rotten Meta Better Movie Reviews: Having its wedding cake and eating it too, this malevolent catfight catastrophe in chick flick lite clothing, satirizes that nuptial consumer orgy, while gorging on the excesses of matrimonial materialism.
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January 14, 2009:
Exclusive photos from composer Edward Shearmur's scoring session to Bride Wars
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January 09, 2009:
UK Critics Consensus: Indifference For Defiance, Whilst Slumdog Millionaire Shines
A trip to the cinema is a sure-fire way to beat the January blues, but which film should you be shelling out to see? Vying for your pennies this weekend we have Daniel Craig in... More...
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