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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Twentieth Century Fox
Salesrank: 343
Released: April 28, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 04/28/2009 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Pg
Description of Bride Wars:
How important is the perfect wedding? Emma (Anne Hathaway) and Liv (Kate Hudson) have been best friends since childhood and each has always dreamed of an extravagant wedding at the Plaza hotel. When both friends get engaged in the same week, they rush to the exclusive wedding planner Marion St. Claire (Candice Bergen) to book the perfect weddings at the Plaza hotel. The reservations get mixed up and both weddings end up scheduled on the same day and, since there are no other suitable openings available at the Plaza, the friends find themselves in the impossible situation of having to decide who will sacrifice her long-held dream and change venues. It turns out that neither woman is willing to give up her plans for a perfect wedding and the friends turn against one another in a hilarious battle that results in everything from blue hair to rumors of pregnancy and embarrassing home videos accompanying one bride's walk down the aisle. Can even a life-long friendship survive the emotional turmoil of two weddings gone wrong? Bride Wars is an amusing look at the trials of friendship and love that's sure to inspire laughter and perhaps even a tear or two. --Tami Horiuchi
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Bride Wars Reviews:
Absurd Sitcom Reveals Itself as a Disposable, Pre-Adolescent Fantasy Farce 
2009-11-26 - I am so far removed from the target audience of this cartoonish, estrogen-heavy 2009 farce that it became a challenge to sit all the way through its blissfully brief 89-minute running time. The by-the-numbers screenplay by Greg DePaul, June Diane Raphael, and former SNL regular Casey Wilson could have been a sharp satire on the excesses of wedding-related commerce or a black comedy about competitiveness among the superficially entitled, either approach of which I would have praised. Sadly, it's neither, and as limply directed by Gary Winick (13 Going on 30), it seems targeted squarely to privileged pre-adolescent girls because the two principals reflect the obsessive, childish mindset of that age. Their emotional immaturity and sitcom-level behavior become draining.
This contemporary parable focuses on childhood best pals Liv and Emma, which of course in this movie's simplistic terms, means they are opposites in every possible way. Liv is the wealthy, über-ambitious lawyer and naturally the less sympathetic one, while Emma is a doormat struggling to make ends meet as a middle-school teacher. To meet the plot's dimensions, it is Liv who has the perfect boyfriend, all understanding and patience, while Emma has a live-in boyfriend who apparently has issues with her budding emancipation. Waiting in the wings is Liv's brother who is made to look so ideal that the screenplay might as well telegraph the resolution. The plot turns on a consultation with Manhattan's leading wedding planner Marion St. Clare, whose administrative assistant erroneously double-booked Liv's and Emma's wedding on the same June day at the Plaza Hotel. The rest of the movie is about how they one-up each other with fraternity-level pranks until the inevitable conclusion.
Kate Hudson (who also co-executive produced) seems to becoming a worse actress with every movie, as she plays almost every scene as Liv with the subtlety of a mime artist. I don't recognize any of the talent she showcased as free-spirit groupie Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous nearly a decade ago. Anne Hathaway comes across marginally better as Emma, but that's like saying the Roadrunner has slightly more credibility than Wile E. Coyote. As Marion, Candice Bergen keeps playing the same role over and over again that I'm starting to wonder if a decade as Murphy Brown was a fluke. Kristen Johnston delivers the film's one truly sardonic note as Emma's fellow teacher-turned-maid of honor. The three men are mere background filler, although Bryan Greenberg (Prime) looks to be making an attempt at a dimensional character. At least cinematographer Frederick Elmes (The Namesake) gives the movie the appropriately polished sheen. The 2009 DVD contains three deleted scenes, all excisable, and an extended commercial for designer Vera Wang, whose wedding gowns are spotlighted in the film.
Bride vs. Bride 
2009-11-20 - "Bride Wars" tells the story of two lifetime BFFs, Emma (Anne Hathaway) and Liv (Kate Hudson, with really bad bangs). The young women get engaged right around the same time and happily begin to plan their dream weddings at the Plaza together. Unfortunately, a mix-up with the wedding coordinator causes both weddings to be booked on the exact same day. Once that happens, Emma and Liv's friendship is all but forgotten. The cat claws come out as both girls begin feuding and try to sabotage each other's weddings.
This is a total girl movie that's not brilliant by any stretch of the imagination, but it has some funny moments, and any woman who's ever been involved in wedding planning will appreciate it on some level. I enjoyed it.
Bride Bores
2009-11-18 - This movie could have been a HUGE hit.Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway and everyone in the film are great,but the movie is so boring.This has to be one of the worst films for 2009.
Should've been PG-13
2009-10-25 - This movie was OK. It wasn't as good as I had expected. I was a little frustrated because of some of the scenes and topics of discussion through out the movie. They each lived with their boyfriends/fiances, too. There were a couple of references made about them sleeping with different guys. There was a scene that was in a strip club that should've made it PG-13. There were scenes showing people drinking alcohol. The story line was pretty good, but I think it could've been better without the sex & alcohol.
Lots of fun 
2009-10-06 - Kate and Anne are perfect for the roles. I cracked everytime a joke is at the right time.Anne is extremely sweet and so is Kate but in a different way.Very funny scenes it is worthy as a romantic comedy.I would think about marriage in a different way...Funny.
