Click to play videoCast: Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway
Direction: Gary Winick
There's nothing more infuriating than watching two perfectly sensible grown women behave like spoilt brats.
In Bride Wars Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway are Liv and Emma, best friends who've grown up dreaming of a June wedding at New York's Plaza Hotel with each playing maid of honor on the other's big day.
But when a scheduling error on the part of a wedding planner results in both their weddings being fixed for the same date, neither will budge. So childhood friends turn into spiteful, revenge-seeking wenches who stoop to new lows to sabotage each other's nuptials.
These antics aimed at humiliation include crashing a bachelorette party, a prank at the tanning studio which leaves one of the ladies a little too orange, a conspiracy at the hair salon which results in one girl's hair being dyed blue, and even some anonymously delivered cookies to make a rival too fat to fit into her Vera Wang dress.
It's all very tiring and not particularly funny because the writing is so uninspired and dull - there's no clever repartee, and never an engaging battle of wits between the ladies.
In the end, both Liv and Emma come off as shameful stereotypes, and it's sickening to watch them obsess over every teeny-weeny wedding detail like they were put on earth for this one day.
Both characters seem to have fulfilling careers but neither appears very interested in that. To be honest, they don't appear particularly interested in their fiancés either.
I'm going with one out of five for Bride Wars, it's predictable and boring and quite honestly, if I wanted to watch a catfight, I'd watch a real one that isn't scripted - not so poorly anyway.
Rating: 1 / 5 (Poor)
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