Bride Wars (2009)

So this movie was on TBS a few weeks ago, and my wife and I flipped to it to watch the last 15 minutes of it. I had never seen it before, but my wife had. She quickly walked me through the storyline of this Oscar-nominee, right up to the point where Anne Hathaway is walking down the aisle when a home movie of her acting drunk was projected above the alter. I guess this was all Kate Hudson's doing, and, since Kate Hudson was getting married across the hall at the same hotel, and walking down the aisle at the same time, Anne Hathaway decided to run over to Kate Hudson's wedding and beat the tar out of her. I have to admit, it was pretty entertaining. However, Anne Hathaway stopped beating up Kate Hudson when she realized that they were best friends. Makes sense. Anne Hathaway then got up and dumped her fiance at Kate Hudson's wedding. I guess beating up your best friend at her wedding can really make you realize that you don't love the man who proposed to you.Anyways, the biggest mystery for me was, if they are best friends, don't they have mutual friends? And if so, which wedding did their mutual friends attend? To me it seems terrible to make your friends choose sides and miss one wedding. And that, to me, makes Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson two of the worst human beings to ever live on this planet.The only reason my wife and I watched was to get to the last part where bother Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson meet for lunch a year later and reveal to each other that they are both pregnant, and their babies are due on the same day!!!!! (cue screaming) While this may seem improbably to the casual movie-goer (wedding on the same day AND a baby on the same day??!?!?), this scenario is actually quite common. According to the internet, it happens to pairs of best friends approximately 700 times every year. So I am glad that a movie was finally made to bring this common problem to the mainstream. With increased awareness, we can stamp out this problem for good. Thanks to Bride Wars, lives will be saved. Huzzah!Anne Hathaway was also in the movie "Interstellar".

Two friends accidentally arrange their weddings for the same day which leads to them falling out and trying to sabotage each others day. Bride Wars had the potential to be funny but unfortunately this one fails on every level. It isn't remotely funny, the characters are awful and the dialogue and the plot boring. Even though it's a relatively short film it seems to drag on and on. The acting from the two leads is very poor but whether this can be blamed solely on the actresses or the awful script is up for debate. Anne Hathaway probably comes out with more credit but Kate Hudson is just terrible. Neither of the characters is remotely likable and in a film like this, that is a critical flaw. Both come across as spoiled and vindictive and it is impossible to have any sympathy with either.I thought I might enjoy this but it is one of the poorest romantic films I've seen, lacking any sparkle at all. Avoid.

I have no idea why this movie got sooo many bad reviews! This movie was funny, warm and sweet at times, and very well acted. Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway represented their roles great here! Also, Chris Pratt, Candice Bergen, and Kristen Johnson are here, and were all entertaining. Kristen Johnson was especially hilarious here in my opinion. The dance off sequence was very cool and entertaining. Also, all the wild antics that the 2 stars engage in throughout the movie are cool to see. The dialogue was pretty good, not great, but still not bad at all. Me and my whole family laughed and had a lot of fun with Bride Wars, I have no clue why so many people didn't do the same. Yes, it's no cinematic masterpiece, and yes, it can be a little bit cliché at times, but what's so bad about that? Overall a 7/10 for Bride Wars, bottom line is, it's a lot of fun!

Starring: Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson These two FEMME-FATALES, in distress, are desperate to boot. However, they have been desperate as the film notes quite cutely from the beginning of the film, to get married from the time that they were six, and best rich buddies who frequented the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria together with their moms for tea and brunch-time. The two quite adorably played "bride and groom" games, though not with any inappropriate over-tones, in the attic of one of their parents' house, when around the same age; coached by their moms that marriage was the best way to go (as if there were any other way; the film takes an old-fashioned view-point), the two are remarkable in their steadfast belief that, indeed, marriage is the best way to get someone to rely on you, and you on they, forever and ever, 'till death do us part. The quaint old phrase, "something old something new, something borrowed something blue" is used to show the film's exquisitely doll-like vision of marriage; in this day and age, with things not turning out perfectly as they should half the time, it is a wonder that they pulled together this altogether believable, yet somewhat superficial film, for our times. The girls grow up to be somewhat selfish, busy professionals, one of them a supposed lawyer who spends half the time talking on her phone; while the other is a middle- school teacher (Anne Hathaway), and the one friend opines that "middle school is a jungle" sympathizing with her friend who has to deal with rowdy almost-teenagers. In addition, we find that, the two, while tightly bonded in their beautiful friendship, share jealousy issues whenever the topic of marriage, which brought them together in the first place, is broached. When the brunette protagonist gets engaged before her blond one (played by Kate Hudson), then it is clear that there is a storm on the horizon. Besides the fact that both ideally want to get married at once, to lessen the jealous tension, they both know how badly, and, to be honest, how downright desperate they are to prove someone wants to marry them, each other really is. Liv and Emma are the names of these two beauties, who truly want to get married (other aspirations in their lives aren't thoroughly explored; this is a film about weddings, after all); and then we learn who is more desperate when the "friends" cast threatening glances at one another, almost claw at each other's faces to grab the suspected engagement ring away when it appears that one of the girl's boyfriend's has left them a ring in a Tiffany box (it turns out that the ring was a booby trap; set up so that the girl would think that she was about to be asked to be married, her fiancée tricks her later into thinking that he actually wasn't proposing, but then chides her for her "poor faith" because, yes, all along, he had been planning it, but was doubted that her impatience, which wasn't a virtue, would allow her to wait long enough to get into the right mood and the right moment). Is this clear? Anyway, she literally jumps up on him like an "inappropriately in-love" monkey who is showing off that she can do gymnastics for the first time, and then they are officially engaged (with this ring, I thee wed, are almost the words one can hear off into the distance). Anne Hathway's beau plans the romantic event somewhat differently; he creatively offers the girl of his dream her beautiful ring (and her best friend asks her all about it; what carat is it? Is it wide? What color is it? Weight, length, and luster? Brand? Country of origin? And so on...) in a fortune cookie, and after some confusion about who takes which cookie (as she doesn't know the significance of this ritual at this particular time), later on following up the act with the traditional, resounding words to every woman's ears: "Will you marry me?" The two hug then, and, might I add that they are a better-fitting, match-made-in-heaven couple than most, including that of Liv and her beau (they seem ill-paired, and not a good match, at all). So there you have it, two desperate women, who appear to have it all, suddenly both have husbands; now, what's the problem?! What more could they want, right? Therein lies the dilemma of the movie, the plot-line, the very heart of the matter: both of them want to reserve (quite stupidly, in the eyes of many) weddings in the same place, at the same exact time. So, you have two desperate, bimbo-y girls, who won't give in; sounds like a recipe for a cat-fight, to me. Neither one wants to admit she made a mistake, and neither one wants to be later than the other in terms of getting married. It's silly, really, but somebody has to make us laugh. So, then you have the two girls tearing each other down, and an accident happens which makes Emma scream (her hair-dresser has dyed her hair blue). . . . . (She screams bloody murder, wanting to kill the one who made this glitch in her plans, though, in all reality, she can really just simmer down, because, blond dye is available to dye it back, again, honey). In the end, there are plenty more antics where those came from from the two prom-queens from hell, and we find that immaturity never ends, even when you are in your thirties and ready to settle down, apparently. I guess that what makes the film such a winner is that it follows so logically: of course, the two "bride-zillas" would be at each other's throats, because, both of them caught the bouquet at one of their SNARKY, sneaky, and competitive (and backstabbing) friend's weddings, at the very same time!!!!!