There's more cheer to be gained from staring outside at a bleak and desolate winterscape in the twilight of a shortened day than paying good money to endure this example of cinematic offal.
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01/12/09
Bride Wars (2009)
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Reviews Counted:129
Fresh:16
Rotten:113
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
Reviews for Bride Wars
While it may be tempting to write off 'Bride Wars' as harmlessly mediocre, this race to the altar also falters by trafficking in female stereotypes.
01/12/09
Plain and simple, this is a paycheck [for Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson] and a waste of their time, your time and mine.
01/10/09
Appallingly simple-minded.
01/10/09
The funniest Bridezilla moments are in the trailer; if you've seen that, you've seen the movie.
01/10/09
You could do worse in Hollywood's dumping ground.
01/09/09
The resolution of the film's dilemma is not only absurd and unbelievable, but is further humiliating to the two actresses.
01/09/09
Bride Wars could have been your typical cartoonish, early-winter wedding comedy. Although it certainly has moments like that, it's not as wacky as most of its ilk. Guess the bad news is that it's not much of a comedy.
01/09/09
Bride Wars is absolutely harmless in the worst kind of way.
01/09/09
Sex and the City for the American Girl set, but a decent chick flick.
01/09/09
With a title like "Bride Wars" you'd expect some explosive comic moments of wedding sabotage and subterfuge, but instead you get a clunky formula romantic comedy, even by Hollywood standards.
01/09/09
No cues are needed to understand the plot, which feels computer-generated and barely serves to sustain an hour and a half running time.
01/09/09
Director Gary Winick has long since abandoned his cool cred from Tadpole and 13 Going on 30 and given himself over to the dark side of making glossy amusements that are about as deep as staring into a snow globe.
01/09/09
In the end, the movie owes its mild success to Anne Hathaway, who makes it watchable.
01/09/09
Top CriticThe writing in Bride Wars is brittle and backbitey, and so are the characters.
01/09/09
In these recessionary times, it's not just misogynistic to assume that intelligent women turn into feral dogs at the sight of a Tiffany gift box, but it's also beside the point.
01/09/09
Even if you can get past the boneheaded premise, the picture feels halfhearted in its construction.
01/09/09
Bride Wars is a retrograde comedy that makes women look like shallow, scheming, selfish creatures who worship consumerism and fret about their hips.
01/09/09
How bad can a movie be, with Goldilocks Hudson and Cinderella Hathaway? So excruciating that Hudson's sunshine can't warm it and Hathaway's rose redolence can't mask its stink.
01/09/09
Aren't we [women] adorable in all our irrational shrieking harpy juvenile shallow materialistic glory? We so are!
01/09/09
Latest News for Bride Wars
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:
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January 09, 2009:
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