Candice Bergen does her best to carry this insubstantial, insulting film, but it's not nearly enough.
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01/08/09
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
The timing of this picture's release is unfortunate, as is the picture itself.
01/08/09
Movies thrive on smackdowns. "Clash of the Titans." "Alien vs. Predator." "Freddy vs. Jason." Rocky vs. Apollo Creed. And now, Bridezilla vs. Bridezilla.
01/08/09
That poor Vera Wang gown has to carry the movie, and that's too much to ask of any dress. Right now, the Wang is probably calling up the green gown from Atonement, asking how to get fixed up with a better script. I wish it luck.
01/08/09
Two shallow women friends become enemies in this unappealing comedy.
01/08/09
A shrill, mechanical comedy dedicated to the proposition that a wedding that doesn't take place at the Plaza Hotel is scarcely worth having at all.
01/08/09
Top CriticUnless skirmishes in the bridal registry department or catfights in yards of tulle sound like fun, opt for peaceful resistance to Bride Wars.
01/08/09
finds sharp laughs in the nooks and crannies of the formula
01/08/09
Bride Wars takes every ugly stereotype about women and weddings and dumbs them down even further.
01/08/09
...only Hudson has been stumping the talk shows on this one. Hathaway appears to be hiding in her closet until it blows over and everyone gets back to remembering her previous film.
01/08/09
Predictable, lazy and as overprocessed as Kate Hudson's hair, this thoroughly joyless movie also possesses a deep nasty streak, making it loathsome when it might have been merely annoying.
01/08/09
Gary Winick directs way too broadly for this thing to ever have a chance and any semblance of reality or believability is just tossed out with bridal bouquet.
01/08/09
Bride Wars is being released early in January, typically a stomping ground for bad movies. In this way, it has been perfectly placed.
01/08/09
You couldn't give this Bride away. Pedestrian comedy of friends at war balances on a petty framework, with shallow, unlikeable and archaic characters.
01/08/09
Hathaway and Hudson, both natural charmers, are reduced to female stereotypes in this outdated comedy.
01/08/09
Here's the biggest problem with Bride Wars: As simple as the premise is, we don't buy it for a moment.
01/08/09
They're real, dimensional humans, not wedding-obsessed fembots.
01/08/09
The movie ends with the door wide open for a sequel; one can't imagine anyone involved jumping at the thought.
01/08/09
The charming and gifted Hudson and Hathaway are totally wasted in this lame retro comedy, which is seemingly a critique of the wedding process and industry, but in actuality ends up endorsing and embracing every element related to lavish nupitals.
01/08/09
Bride Wars is also a missed opportunity for a crackerjack comedy, dropping any hint of mean-spirited delight to kitten play with mundane nuptial wish-fulfillment and half-realized romantic nonsense.
01/08/09
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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