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Bride Wars

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3.5 User Score:

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Based on 30 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy  |  Romance

Written by: Greg Depaul
Casey Wilason
June Raphael

Directed by: Gary Winick

Release Date:
Theatrical: January 9, 2009
DVD: April 28, 2009

Running Time: 89 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG for suggestive content, language and some rude behavior

Starring Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson, Candice Bergen, Kristen Johnston, Bryan Greenberg, Steve Howey, Chris Pratt, and Michael Arden

Liv and Emma 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 New York's ultimate bridal destination, the Plaza Hotel. Now, at age 26, they're both about to get married; they're about to realize their dreams; and they're about to live happily ever after. Or maybe not--when a clerical error causes a clash in wedding dates - they're now to be married on the same date! - Liv, Emma and their lifelong friendship are put to the ultimate test. Now, the two best friends who'd do anything for each other, find themselves in a no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners struggle that threatens to erupt into all-out war. (20th Century Fox)

What The Critics Said

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88

Premiere Olivia Putnal

Sometimes the only funny stuff is in the trailers, but not so here. Kristen Johnson was especially adept at stealing some scenes.

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70

Film Threat Stina Chyn

A chick flick in the purest sense--it's not about men or falling in love--and is quite funny.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Reyhan Harmanci

If you came to see two pretty girls in wedding dresses wrestle, you won't be disappointed.

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50

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Bride Wars is pretty thin soup. The characters have no depth or personality, no quirks or complications, no conversation.

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50

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Bride Wars pretends to be a satire of wedding mania, but since there's virtually nothing else to the movie, the satire comes depressingly close to endorsement.

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40

LA Weekly Robert Wilonsky

A step backward for Hathaway, Bride Wars is one more step into the quicksand for Hudson, who's spent the nine years since ""Almost Famous wandering the rom-com wasteland in search of an exit strategy; this movie, which she exec produced, ain't it.

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40

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

A dopey if largely painless romantic comedy.

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38

Boston Globe Ty Burr

A chick flick that makes its chick characters - and by extension its chick audience - look like hateful, backward toddlers, and there is something wrong with that.

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38

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

Bride Wars really does not capture the mood of the moment. It comes from a different time, a different planet.

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38

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

Like moussed hair and inverted-pyramid shoulder pads, this sloppy, sloppy slapstick is an artifact from the 1980s.

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38

ReelViews James Berardinelli

It represents a missed opportunity on every level. As a black comedy, it fails. As a satire of the bloated wedding industry, it fails. As a drama about friendship triumphing over all, it fails.

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30

Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall

With artifice as layered as the tiers of a marzipan cake, this resembles nothing so much as a stale Rock Hudson-Doris Day comedy.

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30

Variety Todd McCarthy

A shrill, mechanical comedy.

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30

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

No cues are needed to understand the plot, which feels computer-generated and barely serves to sustain an hour and a half running time.

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30

Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey

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.

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25

USA Today Claudia Puig

Bride Wars is about as funny as a cringingly awkward wedding toast.

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25

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

An insipid comedy in which the women are shallow, acquisitive, backstabbing, selfish harridans.

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25

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Exceedingly lame.

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25

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

A girlie romantic comedy with tired slapstick pranks but not an ounce of self-respect or intelligence.

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25

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

Bride Wars has possibly the worst comedy idea since "Springtime for Hitler," with almost no room for redeeming camp.

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25

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

The movie pretty much blows.

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25

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

By comparison, Bride Wars makes "Sex and the City" seem like Jane Austen.

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25

TV Guide Perry Seibert

All in all, that's not a bad premise for a lightweight chick flick, but director Gary Winick and an army of three screenwriters can't come up with a single fresh comedic idea.

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20

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

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.

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20

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

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.

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20

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

It's both slack and bloated; I've been to Catholic wedding masses that had more zip. I think it clocked in at fewer than 90 minutes, but it seemed to last longer than most marriages do.

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20

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Hudson has, if nothing else, traded up: last winter she was stuck in "Fool's Gold."

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16

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

There may be a trenchant satire to be mined from our culture's materialism-warped wedding madness, but Bride Wars instead opts for graceless, flailing, poorly choreographed slapstick performed by characters who suggest a dumbed-down tour production of "Sex And The City."

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0

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

I'd be hard-pressed to name another recent film so deeply noxious, soul-sick, and unfunny.

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0

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

The first big-studio movie released in 2009 has a damn fine chance of being the worst. Bride Wars isn't just chick-flick hell for guys, it should numb the skulls of moviegoers of all sexes and ages.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 3.5 (out of 10) based on 41 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Matty gave it a7:
Well, it wasn't anything special, but I wouldn't call it bad. But yeah, chick flick haters, avoid. Casual chick flick fans (like me), rent it. Bigger chick flick/wedding movie/Kate Hudson/Anne Hathaway fans, see it any way you can. I think some of the bashing of this movie comes from bias and overexpectency due to Anne Hathaway's performance in "Rachel Getting Married". However, I'll admit, this is my first time seeing Anne Hathaway in a movie that I give below an 8 to (I've only seen her in The Princess Diaries 1 and 2, Get Smart, RGM, and The Devil Wears Prada).

Arielle F. gave it a6:
Okay. It's not the best movie out there, but you could get a few laughs out of it. And that's what you want from a rented movie on a Friday night, isn't it?

Tony H gave it a5:
Mildy entertaining and somewhat fun to watch but there's just not much there to make you want the movie to keep going. Perhaps a sequel, Honeymoon Wars would be more entertaining.

Jordan K. gave it a5:
This movie was truly one of the dumbest entertaining movie I have ever seen. Let's see, first the stupidity: I was expected to believe that two women are so obsessed with the idea of marriage that they would basically end a life-long friendship over the possibility of getting married at the same place on the same day. I was expected to believe that Manhattan's "best" wedding planner would make a booking mistake to cause aforementioned situation to arise, and then would tell Kate/Anne that they have to change one of THEIR dates, even though they made their reservations before the other woman who caused said booking conflict to arise. Finally, the filmmakers thought I would buy two best friends pulling increasingly idiotic pranks on each other, like Anne dying Kate's hair blue or Kate spray-tanning Anne's skin orange. If they weren't talking to each other because of the conflict, how in the hell did one know where the other would be all of the time? Creepy. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this film more than I thought I would or even wanted to. As repulsive as the two main characters should have been, the likability of Anne and Kate made them somewhat, well, likeable. Or maybe bearable is a better word, but, whatever, these two actresses are cute and clever enough to deceive me into rooting for these two idiotic characters. Also, the guys were kind of cute and cool, especially Kate Hudson's brother, played by hunky, sexy, and all around sweep-me-off-my-feet gorgeous Bryan Greenberg (from the now defunct TV show "October Sky"). I appreciated the way Anne's and her fiance's relationship had realistic misunderstandings, with a realistic conclusion, too. Finally, I must say that the power of the two female dimwits friendship did shine through at the end, even causing me to get all misty-eyed. Overall, I don't recommend you go out of your way to see this, and if you do, PLEASE do not have high expectations. I'd say it is more dumb than entertaining. But, if you are surfing through the TV and this is on, or if you can't find anything better to rent from the DVD stores/sites, you may get some brief amusement and even be a little touched by this goofy flick.

Jay H gave it a5:
The film does have some amusing scenes, but overall it's a bit too abrasive and extreme. Anne Hathaway comes off better than Kate Hudson, but both do fine. Candice Bergen is very good in a supporting role.

Mircea C. gave it a2:
This is torture.Ever since Sex and the City the movie I haven't seen something more stupid, sensless, numb and unfunny.

Jack P. gave it a0:
For every other bad chick flick, this makes any of those formulaic films I despised look like a genius. There was not a second I was not cringing, and there was not a second I was laughing.

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