Eighty-eight minutes and 14 seconds of pure, unadulterated piffle.
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01/15/09
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 CriticI now pronounce you mildly amused!
01/14/09
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 Critic[A] funny, self-consciously frothy piece of good-natured escapism.
01/16/09
Top CriticA movie best left at the altar.
01/22/09
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 CriticYou could do worse in Hollywood's dumping ground.
01/09/09
I have a request of Hollywood: Please stop now. If you can't come up with a funnier bridal comedy than Bride Wars, leave the subject alone.
01/09/09
A paean to friendship and conspicuous consumption that is just simply wrong. On a number of levels.
01/17/09
As romantic as the dollar dance and as funny as the quips from a hokey wedding DJ.
01/07/09
The movie ends with the door wide open for a sequel; one can't imagine anyone involved jumping at the thought.
01/08/09
Bride Wars tosses out stereotypes about female materialism and cattiness with all the giddy gusto of a newly married woman flinging the bouquet at her single girlfriends.
01/07/09
Bride Wars takes the burgeoning Anne Hathaway wedding-movie subgenre from the sublime to the despicable.
01/09/09
Even if the slapstick were brilliantly choreographed, the movie's view of marriage, women and, for that matter, men would probably sink it to oblivion.
01/09/09
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
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
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04/23/09
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
Anne Hathaway has a few shining moments in this bridal face-off but getting to the altar is still a tiring slog.
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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