Bride Wars takes the burgeoning Anne Hathaway wedding-movie subgenre from the sublime to the despicable.
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01/09/09
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
All in all, it's a good girlfriend movie and a decent date-night picture.
01/09/09
Anything you need to know to avoid wasting your $12 is in the unpromising trailer.
01/09/09
It would be depressing to think that people like this might actually exist. But it's also a little depressing to think that movies like this actually exist, so you can never be too sure.
01/09/09
Wedding comedy amuses, but has inconsistent messages.
01/09/09
It's apathy incarnate. It's the Bride of Floppenstein, a C-minus, a soggy, sad thing floating in a lukewarm limbo of sentimental mediocrity.
01/09/09
If anyone asks you if you want to see Bride Wars, remember the right answer: I don't.
01/09/09
The idea of a revenge comedy isn't necessarily a bad one, Bride Wars simply fails at it despite having the formidable duo of Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, who in their own distinctive ways usually command the screen.
01/09/09
Top CriticHudson and Hathaway make for a great comedic pair and will keep you laughing all the way down the aisle.
01/09/09
You leave this chick flick disaster feeling like an escapee from a POW camp.
01/09/09
Yeah, Bride Wars is only a chick flick, but chicks deserve better than this.
01/09/09
As vacuous and disposable as Hollywood comedies come. I'd say it's preferable to rabies, but having never had rabies, I can't be sure, can I?
01/09/09
Bride Wars never gets off its high-concept stool long enough to explore what makes weddings so exciting and nerve-racking and treacherous. It flounders instead in juvenilia and bitchiness.
01/09/09
Top CriticBride Wars is hell at its most banal -- like watching a dull sitcom with a broken remote.
01/09/09
Bride Wars could have been a clever, incisive satire of the bloated and maddening wedding industry; unfortunately it takes an old-fashioned stance far out of place in this modern world.
01/09/09
Setting feminism back at least a century, embarrassing a potential Oscar nominee and insulting the very idea of romance, Bride Wars is every bit as awful as it sounds.
01/09/09
The film wanly tries to build a case for their two very different, yet complementary, personalities but falls back on slapstick. The filmmakers make thankfully swift work of the tale in just under 90 minutes.
01/09/09
Not knowing what to expect, the battle between Hudson and Hatheway was fun to watch but I would not waste money to see it in theatres. Wait for the rental!
01/09/09
It's been awhile since a movie has been this stridently insufferable while pulling off that moviemaking trifecta of combining bad directing, bad writing and bad acting.
01/09/09
With artifice as layered as the tiers of a marzipan cake, this resembles nothing so much as a stale Rock Hudson-Doris Day comedy: you know that eventually the combatants will recognize they love each other the most.
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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