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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
Director Gary Winick has long since abandoned his cool cred from Tadpole and 13 Going on 30 and given himself over to the dark side of making glossy amusements that are about as deep as staring into a snow globe.
In the end, the movie owes its mild success to Anne Hathaway, who makes it watchable.
The writing in Bride Wars is brittle and backbitey, and so are the characters.
In these recessionary times, it's not just misogynistic to assume that intelligent women turn into feral dogs at the sight of a Tiffany gift box, but it's also beside the point.
Even if you can get past the boneheaded premise, the picture feels halfhearted in its construction.
Bride Wars is a retrograde comedy that makes women look like shallow, scheming, selfish creatures who worship consumerism and fret about their hips.
How bad can a movie be, with Goldilocks Hudson and Cinderella Hathaway? So excruciating that Hudson's sunshine can't warm it and Hathaway's rose redolence can't mask its stink.
Aren't we [women] adorable in all our irrational shrieking harpy juvenile shallow materialistic glory? We so are!
Bride Wars takes the burgeoning Anne Hathaway wedding-movie subgenre from the sublime to the despicable.
All in all, it's a good girlfriend movie and a decent date-night picture.
Anything you need to know to avoid wasting your $12 is in the unpromising trailer.
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.
Wedding comedy amuses, but has inconsistent messages.
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.
If anyone asks you if you want to see Bride Wars, remember the right answer: I don't.
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.
Top CriticHudson and Hathaway make for a great comedic pair and will keep you laughing all the way down the aisle.
You leave this chick flick disaster feeling like an escapee from a POW camp.
Yeah, Bride Wars is only a chick flick, but chicks deserve better than this.
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?
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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