In the end, the movie owes its mild success to Anne Hathaway, who makes it watchable.
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01/09/09
Bride Wars (2009)
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Reviews Counted:129
Fresh:16
Rotten:113
Average Rating:3.4/10
Consensus: Bride Wars takes the already wearisome concept of battling bridezillas, and makes it thoroughly insufferable via a lazy script and wholly detestable characters.
Theatrical Release:Jan 9, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $58,637,818
Synopsis: Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) 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... [More]
Starring: Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Kristen Johnson, Bryan Greenberg
Director: Gary Winick
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Reviews for Bride Wars
Top CriticThe writing in Bride Wars is brittle and backbitey, and so are the characters.
01/09/09
In these recessionary times, it's not just misogynistic to assume that intelligent women turn into feral dogs at the sight of a Tiffany gift box, but it's also beside the point.
01/09/09
Even if you can get past the boneheaded premise, the picture feels halfhearted in its construction.
01/09/09
Top CriticBride Wars is a retrograde comedy that makes women look like shallow, scheming, selfish creatures who worship consumerism and fret about their hips.
01/09/09
How bad can a movie be, with Goldilocks Hudson and Cinderella Hathaway? So excruciating that Hudson's sunshine can't warm it and Hathaway's rose redolence can't mask its stink.
01/09/09
Top CriticAren't we [women] adorable in all our irrational shrieking harpy juvenile shallow materialistic glory? We so are!
01/09/09
Bride Wars takes the burgeoning Anne Hathaway wedding-movie subgenre from the sublime to the despicable.
01/09/09
All in all, it's a good girlfriend movie and a decent date-night picture.
01/09/09
Top CriticAnything you need to know to avoid wasting your $12 is in the unpromising trailer.
01/09/09
Top CriticIt would be depressing to think that people like this might actually exist. But it's also a little depressing to think that movies like this actually exist, so you can never be too sure.
01/09/09
Wedding comedy amuses, but has inconsistent messages.
01/09/09
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.
01/09/09
If anyone asks you if you want to see Bride Wars, remember the right answer: I don't.
01/09/09
The idea of a revenge comedy isn't necessarily a bad one, Bride Wars simply fails at it despite having the formidable duo of Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, who in their own distinctive ways usually command the screen.
01/09/09
Hudson and Hathaway make for a great comedic pair and will keep you laughing all the way down the aisle.
01/09/09
You leave this chick flick disaster feeling like an escapee from a POW camp.
01/09/09
Yeah, Bride Wars is only a chick flick, but chicks deserve better than this.
01/09/09
As vacuous and disposable as Hollywood comedies come. I'd say it's preferable to rabies, but having never had rabies, I can't be sure, can I?
01/09/09
Bride Wars never gets off its high-concept stool long enough to explore what makes weddings so exciting and nerve-racking and treacherous. It flounders instead in juvenilia and bitchiness.
01/09/09
Top CriticLatest News for Bride Wars
January 19, 2009:
Having its wedding cake and eating it too, this malevolent catfight catastrophe in chick flick lite clothing, satirizes that nuptial consumer orgy, while gorging on the excesses of matrimonial materialism. 
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January 17, 2009:
Rotten Meta Better Movie Reviews: Having its wedding cake and eating it too, this malevolent catfight catastrophe in chick flick lite clothing, satirizes that nuptial consumer orgy, while gorging on the excesses of matrimonial materialism.
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January 14, 2009:
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January 09, 2009:
UK Critics Consensus: Indifference For Defiance, Whilst Slumdog Millionaire Shines
A trip to the cinema is a sure-fire way to beat the January blues, but which film should you be shelling out to see? Vying for your pennies this weekend we have Daniel Craig in... More...
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