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Bride Wars
Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) are besties 4 EVA, with life-long dreams of the perfect wedding. Even their respective bridal engagements happen within hours. Together they plan their weddings, each to take place at New York's ultimate bridal destination: the Plaza Hotel. But a clerical error, causing a clash of wedding dates, pits the two brides against each other in a competition that quickly escalates into all-out war.
Directed by Gary Winick, who made the recent Charlotte's Web and the more closely related 13 Going On 30 in 2004.
Starring Candice Bergen, Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson, Bryan Greenberg, Kristen Johnston, Chris Pratt, Casey Wilson, June Diane Raphael
Directed by Gary Winick (TV's 'Ugly Betty', 'Charlotte's Web', '13 Going on 30')
Written by Greg DePaul, June Diane Raphael, Casey Wilson
Drama, Comedy, Romantic Comedy | 1hr 29mins | Rated (PG) | contains coarse language | Origin: USA | Official Site »
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Can you get any more chick-flick than a movie about two BFFs getting married on the same day? And I do mean “chick flick” in a derogatory way.
If you've ever seen Bridezillas on TV you'll have an idea of what you're in for. The twist is that instead of being obsessed with the big day being “all about me” these two brides-from-hell – Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, giving all brides a bad name - are “all about her” as they compete to destroy each other's wedding. The sitcom-ish premise that both their dream nuptials are accidentally booked on the same day at the same hotel and neither will change the date or venue wears thin long before we reach the reception. The idea that a wedding can change intelligent, together women – a teacher and a lawyer, no less – into deranged, sabotaging, banshees demeans all brides.
There's no romance or comedy in this alleged romcom. I got more out of Clone Wars than Bride Wars – and that's saying something. If you've seen the trailer, you've seen the “best” bits anyway.
Reviewed by Margaret Agnew - Margaret's day job is chief film reviewer for The Press newspaper, she also writes the film blog Reeling.
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Chicago Sun-Times [Roger Ebert]
pretty thin soup. The characters have no depth or personality, no quirks or complications, no conversation. The story twist is so obvious from the first shot of two characters talking that they should have been waving handkerchiefs over their heads and signaling: Watch this space for further developments. The whole story is narrated by Bergen as the wedding coordinator, who might as well have been instructing us how to carve bars of Ivory Soap into little ducks.
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FilmThreat.com [USA]
A chick flick in the purest sense--it's not about men or falling in love--and is quite funny.
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New York Times
A dopey if largely painless romantic comedy.
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NZ Herald [Francesca Rudkin]
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Anne Hathaway must be hoping her Oscar nomination for Rachel Getting Married will completely overshadow her performance in this pointless chick flick.
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Premiere [USA]
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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Urban Cinefile [Australia]
While 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.
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Variety [USA]
A shrill, mechanical comedy.
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