Bride War

Objective Rating (How much merit I think it deserves):
4/10
Subjective Rating (How much I personally like it):
4.5/10


Just as a point of reference for the ratings, 5/10 is a neutral point of indifference. 10 is... pretty perfect, I guess. And 1 is absolutely horrid. I'm not a person for extremes, so I would rarely use 1 or 10's. Unless there is absolutely no other number to describe the film.

Okay, Bride War. First of all, kudos for the filmmakers to get Anne Hathaway to star in the movie. I don't think I would have even sat down to watch the movie if I didn't see her name attached. In my head, she's a pretty respectable actress who's trying hard to break away from her early Princess Dairies image of... well, a princess. So far, she's succeeding pretty spectacularly, which is so tricky for so many actresses. My first movie review was actually for "Rachel Getting Married," in which Hathaway also stars. She's very... versatile in her attempt to lose the goody-two-shoes association.

But not such a good move to take on a movie like Bride War. From Kate Hudson, we kind of expect this kind of chick flick that is a no-brainer pretending to have a message. They are not that deep and don't even make that much sense a lot of times. Don't get me wrong, I've watched many a Kate Hudson movie. They are fun, she's pretty and blond and... what other reasons do you really need? Oh, the leading actor is usually good-looking enough. But really, I've come to expect more from Anne Hathaway.

The story's kind of all in the title. Two best friends since childhood want to have a dream wedding at the same location. Through some freakish double-booking accident (just lesion out the reasoning part of your brain and it'll be all right), they end up having to get married on the same day. They start to get more and more competitive and start sabotaging each other's wedding (Ha ha ha... okay not that funny).


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Things don't work out so well. Both weddings are kind of ruined. They realize what they have done and how much of the bigger picture they are missing and make up. Oh, and one of the two weddings actually fall apart because the couple finally realizes they don't want the same things anymore and shouldn't be together.


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I do find some fo the bridezilla antics amusing, but only to a degree. The whole thing is too cliched and too unrealistic at the same time. Yes, everyone gets nervous for their wedding and yes, it sucks to marry at the same time as your best friend (unless you are marrying each other...?), but really? Blue hair, really? Orange spray tan, really? (It's starting to sound like Seth Meyers on SNL's Weekend Update) No, really.

The movie does have some tender moments and some great fun, so I can't completely fault it. If you are just looking for some weak laughs and not too much brain power on a girls' night (or boys' night? If you have really feminine taste?), this would be the movie. And oh, of course it has a happy ending so don't worry about getting depressed afterwards.