Bride Wars - Movies Reviews

What's it about: Bride Wars is a self explanatory chick flick about two best friends who grow up obsessing about getting married, only to realise their weddings are scheduled at the same venue!

Liv (Kate) and Emma (Anne) are BFFs who have dreamt about the perfect wedding dress that they'd wear at New York's Plaza hotel, since they were kids.

The place is the most sought- after wedding spot by single women in New York, and both Emma and Liv get booked for it on the same date.
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Unfortunately for them, a compromise isn't possible since the place isn't available for the next three years.

The girls become Bridezillas and declare an open war. Both girls now have a job at hand to make sure the other ends up either cancelling the wedding or landing up in a soup that jeopardises the situation.

What's hot: The names Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson evoke an immediate pop-sugary likeable feeling. In Bride Wars, they both play that feeling to the hilt.

There are a few scenes that add the drama element to the intense fight between Liv and Emma.

Since Liv and Emma come from opposite worlds, one an attorney and the other a grade school teacher, the situations depicting their polarised reactions to the wedding situation is hilarious.

What's not: Bride Wars goes on a suicidal path soon before it reaches the halfway mark. We know that Liv and Emma are frenemies and are expected to sabotage each other.

But the situations the writers come up with are juvenile. Why couldn't the script go beyond showing Emma's disastrous experience in a tanning salon and Liv ending up turning her hair blue.

Even the dialogues are so cheesy and predictable that you wonder if this chick flick was made to order for the likes of Pars Hilton.

Trying hard to be a Sex and the City meets Mean Girls, the film ends up getting more annoying than engaging. Both Kate and Anne are uninspiring.
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Kate clearly needs to comeback with another Almost Famous; Anne is still basking in the laurels she received for Rachel Getting Married.

What to do: With not enough wit or charisma, Bride Wars is neither catty nor bitchy. It's simply a collage of silly moments put together to cash in on the two lead actors.

Bride Wars
U/A; Romantic comedy
Dir: Gary Winick
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson
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