Kate Hudson Movie:

		List Price: $39.99		Label: 20th Century Fox Salesrank: 8710 Released: April 28, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:

Genre: Comedy
Rating: PG
Release Date: 28-APR-2009
Media Type: Blu-Ray

Description of Bride Wars (3-Disc Set) [Blu-ray]:

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 (3-Disc Set) [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Off-putting
2009-12-09 - Liv and Emma (Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway) are long-time best friends who have dreamed of weddings at the Plaza Hotel. After they both get engaged, they go to an elite wedding planner (Candice Bergen) who manages to bungle things and, wouldn't you just guess, both weddings are scheduled for the same place, date, and time. Oh, the horror!

Watching this comedy actually made me depressed. The two young ladies were so self-absorbed and shallow that their weddings - not their marriages - became the be-all and end-all of their lives and drove them to do outlandish (and possibly illegal) things. Their jealousy and drama about the Plaza, the dresses, the parties, etc. was so far-fetched that I couldn't relate. Anne Hathaway is lovely and comes off better than her co-star Hudson, but I still didn't like either one of the superficial, childish, and annoying characters.

If a fancy wedding party is your biggest goal in life, this may be the movie for you; if not, skip it.

customer service
2009-12-06 - Very good customer sservice as well as immediate shipping. I would definitely order again

~*not ridiculously comical, but pretty sweet*~
2009-12-04 - From the trailer, I was expecting something more comical than the actual movie. I can't believe it made me cry at one point! I guess it reminded me of how important it is to have a best friend.

You might want to postpone watching it until after you get married though, if anyone's hinted that you might be a bridezilla. On the other hand, it made me very glad I wasn't anywhere near being a bridezilla :P

You're nothing until your wedding...
2009-12-02 - I realize this was supposed to be a humorous take on how people go over-the-top about weddings, and, at least, in the end sanity does prevail. But I simply could not get past the theme that weddings (marriage) are the end-all be-all to a woman's life. All the girls in the movie just wanted to me married - it was their only goal. No matter what else was going on in their lives, no other accomplishments matter because they were still single.

It's an unfortunately true stereotype of a lot of women, and the wedding industry seeks to reinforce it at every turn. And yes, the movie does sort of poke fun at it, but not enough. In the end it wasn't enough to shake the foul taste of 'you must be married to be worthy' out of my mouth (which, yes, is odd, since I am married and have been for 12 years, so I'm a 'complete women' in their eyes...).

In the end it just wasn't funny enough, wasn't zany enough, wasn't original enough to be great. I was just funny enough that I didn't feel like it was a complete waste of my life, so I'd say it's a good 'have on in the background when there's nothing else on TV and you're doing something else' movie.


100%
2009-11-29 - This is a 100% chick flick. My wife and I alternate movie picks and this unfortunately was her pick. There are many girl friendly films I do end up enjoying, but this was not one of them. This is really a shallow concept that might work great as a half hour sitcom, but stretched out over a full length film it just comes off badly. Two best friends who have always dreamed of having a fantasy wedding get engaged at the same time and by accident have their weddings booked on the same day. Getting mad, they both start sabotaging each others wedding plans. Good actresses and a good concept in theory made me have high hopes for this one. But a sub par formula script that isn't very funny sink this movie.