Bride Wars

Release Year: 2009

Director: Gary Winick

Review:  Full disclosure: as a male I'm probably not the core demographic for this movie.  That being said, this is still a terrible film.  We all know the familiar fantasy of little girls and their weddings.  In this case Emma(Anne Hathaway) and Liv(Kate Hudson) are best friends who have been planning their wedding at New York Cities famous Plaza Hotel since they were six years old.  It just so happens they get engaged at the same time, and because of a clerical mistake both are booked to have their weddings at the hotel at the same day with no chance at a different date.  Neither one is about to give up their dream wedding, and instead resort to sabotage to try and get back at the other one.  It's a charming tale of two women so self absorbed that they are willing to destroy a life long friendship over a wedding venue.

I realize that weddings are important, but the lengths these two supposed friends go to to ensure the perfect wedding is just disturbing.  Rather than actually paying any attention to their spouses wishes they only care about what they want.  Completely caught up with their own shallow desires, they are cruel and vicious to one another to the point where I can't understand how they were ever friends.  It wasn't enjoyable watching two shallow, self-centered characters, essentially have a tantrum for the entire movie.  There is little redeemable from this mess, and any moral lessons the film does impart are not earned.
Rating: 1.5/5