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01/14/09
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.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Jan 15, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $58,637,818
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
Top CriticThere's a good deal of potential squandered in this strained comedy, which suffers from lazy writing, miscalculated acting, perfunctory directing and general bad timing.
01/16/09
Top CriticWhile the premise is as flimsy as a brides' veil, Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway make this girls-only comedy about two girls, two weddings and a friendship in crisis, into a moderately enjoyable, if forgettable affair
01/09/09
Top CriticA movie best left at the altar.
01/22/09
Top CriticEighty-eight minutes and 14 seconds of pure, unadulterated piffle.
01/15/09
Top Critic[A] funny, self-consciously frothy piece of good-natured escapism.
01/16/09
Top CriticWill make you hate brides.
01/07/09
Appallingly simple-minded.
01/10/09
Mere months ago, Anne Hathaway participated in Rachel Getting Married, a film brimming with life. Now here she is in a film with virtually no life at all.
01/09/09
Bride Wars wants to have its five-tiered cake and eat it too, making toothless jokes about the absurdity of the multibillion dollar wedding industry while never letting us forget that no woman is complete without one.
01/07/09
Wedding comedy amuses, but has inconsistent messages.
01/09/09
All it takes is a bride scorned to turn a stock movie character into a raving caricature of emotional instability.
01/08/09
A crass, despicably sexist piece of Hollywood trash.
01/08/09
If Bride Wars is any indication of what's to come, please let last year linger a little longer.
02/19/09
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.
01/12/09
A paean to friendship and conspicuous consumption that is just simply wrong. On a number of levels.
01/17/09
Our 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.
01/09/09
Top CriticTwo shallow women friends become enemies in this unappealing comedy.
01/08/09
It's a chick flick; nothing wrong with that. But it's also 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.
01/09/09
Yeah, Bride Wars is only a chick flick, but chicks deserve better than this.
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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