Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson, Bryan Greenberg

Liv and Emma 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 New York's ultimate bridal destinat...( read more  read more... )ion, the Plaza Hotel. Now, at age 26, they're both about to get married; they're about to realize their dreams; and they're about to live happily ever after. Or maybe not. When a clerical error causes a clash in wedding dates--they're now to be married on the same date!--Liv, Emma and their lifelong friendship are put to the ultimate test. Liv, a successful lawyer who is used to getting what she wants, including the perfect job and the perfect man, won't settle for anything less than the perfect wedding she has dreamed of for years. Emma, a schoolteacher who has always been good at taking care of others, but not so much in looking after herself, discovers her inner Bridezilla and comes out swinging when her own dream wedding is imperiled. Now, the two best friends who'd do anything for each other find themselves in a no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners struggle that threatens to erupt into all-out war. .

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PG, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Gary Winick

Release Date: January 9, 2009

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DVD Release Date: April 28, 2009

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  • August 7, 2009
    Sometimes you just plain get what you deserve. As a straight 21 year old male, I had only one reason to download Bride Wars and watch it on my iPod - Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway are really, really hot. And I foolishly thought that a movie with the two of them would, if nothin...( read more)g else, have some nice shots of the two actresses hugging each other, or dancing together, or having pillow fights in their underwear and practicing french kissing. You know...the usual stuff. Alas, even a hardcore scene of the two in a threesome with yours truly couldn't save this unmitigated, embarassing, downright offensive mess of a movie. It was free, and I still want my money back.

    The sheer awfulness of the movie may surprise you. True, most "chick flicks" get bad reviews, but nothing can prepare you for just how numbingly shitty Bride Wars is. It's written and directed with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, and acted without any regard for stuff like "charm", "wit", or "chemistry". The plot and it's situations could have been effective in a black comedy, but this movie has zero comedy, and is as vanilla white as it gets. Watch the trailer, and you'll know exactly how every scene in the movie will play out.

    The film has what is probably the most inane and stupid plot conflict ever written. The two friends' weddings are scheduled on the same day at the same area - and THIS is what motivates the feud between Hudson and Hathaway? THIS is what makes them dye the enemy's hair blue, or give them super red tans, or fight with their fiances, etc? How is this even remotely a plausible problem that needs solving? I mentioned that the film is actually offensive, and indeed it is, to both sexes; to the women, because surely a modern movie can't use these two cloying, superficial, vapid, venmous, materialistic, and downright idiotic of girls as heroines? Do girls actually care this much about this stuff? I pray to God that they don't.

    Ah, but it also manages to be offensive to the poor male souls watching, whilc I'll explain after a SPOILER warning. So there's only one sane, intelligent character in the whole film, and that's the fiance of Anne Hathaway. He wisely thinks her and Hudson's feud is retarded, and actually tells her so, describing why she's acting like a child. I almost applauded. But guess what? For doing this, the movie thinks he's the VILLLIAN. They drop in a cute dude out of nowhere to be a Romantic Complication, and in the end Hathaway decides that he "only loves the girl you knew 10 years ago", doesn't like who she's become, and she dumps him for the other guy. Um, lady? He doesn't like who you've become because you're acting like a psycho hose beast. So in the end we discover that she then married the cute guy we saw one time in the movie and is gonna have his bastard child. Message delivered to female audience - if you act like a bitch and your boyfriend doesn't like it, don't try and solve your problems but just dump him for the better looking guy you know. To which I imagine every dude in the audience wisely responds with a "Are you fucking kidding me????"

    Anyways, this is truly one of the worst movies I've ever had to endure. Honest. It could've been redeemed with comedy, but sadly nothing is ever remotely funny - we hate these girls, and that makes staying in their company a truly painful ordeal.
  • June 23, 2009
    Cute movie. It definitely has its share of funny moments.
  • June 11, 2009
    I'll watch Hathaway in anything that's a given, but this film was a complete and utter mess. For devout fans only. Seriously Hudson step away from the romcoms.
  • June 5, 2009
    It was an okay movie, one of those where you already know what to expect. It's a fun movie to watch with your close female friends, defintitely a chick flick.
  • May 26, 2009
    A movie best left at the altar.
  • November 7, 2009
    omg.. its a m a z i n g.!!
  • November 1, 2009
    http://content9.flixster.com/movie/10/88/96/10889623_tmb.jpg
  • October 31, 2009
    A typical romantic comedy... Mostly.... Still enjoyable though! :)
  • October 30, 2009
    funny chick flick!!! kate hudson is rather on the plump side in this movie!
  • October 29, 2009
    Helllo divorce court....

Critic Reviews


January 16, 2009
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

Bride Wars makes Sex and the City seem like Jane Austen. full review

January 9, 2009
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

No cues are needed to understand the plot, which feels computer-generated and barely serves to sustain an hour and a half running time. full review

January 9, 2009
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

Even if you can get past the boneheaded premise, the picture feels halfhearted in its construction. full review

January 9, 2009
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

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. full review

January 9, 2009
Tom Long, Detroit News

Setting feminism back at least a century, embarrassing a potential Oscar nominee and insulting the very idea of romance, Bride Wars is every bit as awful as it sounds. full review

January 9, 2009
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader

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 ... full review

January 9, 2009
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

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 so... full review

January 9, 2009
Kurt Loder, MTV

Some of this might have passed for uproarious in a TV sitcom, although probably in an earlier decade than the one in which we're dozing through this movie. full review

January 9, 2009
Michael Sragow, The Baltimore Sun

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. full review

January 9, 2009
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

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. full review

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Comments


  • prescillahm
    February 15, 2009
    Am dying to see this movie espesially if there is Anne Hathaway in it.
  • gerardcarolan
    February 15, 2009
    lmao it was so funny
    i have to see it again
  • elegantzje
    January 30, 2009
    lol!
    sooooooooo funnnnnny i wanna c it plzzzzzzzzz
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    January 22, 2009
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    " I'm wishing would like to been thier at the theatre to watch it . & i'm 'll do it .Coz i'm would like to know how's about it funny&exciting on the film "
  • pohmlovetheleader
    January 12, 2009
    This movie was very interesting and fun-filled! I would automatically go see it again! GO SEE IT!!
  • kristyann1
    January 10, 2009
    Hysterically Chaotic!!!!!
  • alshenoy
    January 9, 2009
    i wanna see it badly!~
  • Rosepetal75
    January 7, 2009
    2 brides-to-be Liv & Emma are best friends since childhood hold their ceremony of their dream weddings at the legendary Plaza Hotel when they have each found the guys if they want to spend the rest of their lives with so, Nate (Bryan Greenberg) proposes to Liv (Kate Hudson) & Daniel (Steve Howey) proposes to Emma (Anne Hathaway)as they schedule their wedding plans is the same day as their wedding day at The Plaza Hotel to their grooms - husbands to be. Who will have to settle for second best if they could share a double weddings?

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