28 Jan 2009

Bride Wars

Director: Gary Winick

Starring: Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson, Candice Bergen, Bryan Greenberg

Release: 2009-01-28

If you're a sucker for bridal magazines, then you'll go goo-goo ga-ga over the stunning Vera Wang wedding dresses and the Tiffany ring that Kate Hudson wears in Bride Wars. Unfortunately, they're also among the few interesting things you could actually find in this hopelessly lame chick flick.

Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway play best friends who have always dreamed of having the perfect wedding held in June at New York's renowned Plaza hotel. When their boyfriends propose to them at approximately the same time, they rush to book their wedding dates - only to be told that there is one slot available for June.

Best friends now turn into bitchy foes screaming and pulling each other's hair out - as if there were no other good hotels in Manhattan

Directed by Gary Winick (Lipstick Jungle), Bride Wars trots out all the typical scenes of girls sabotaging each other at the tanning booth, the beauty salon and the dance studio, using all-too-familiar gags of ultra-fattening biscuits, chocolates, etc - you get the picture.

At different points in the movie, the characters call each other "bitchy", "obnoxious", "pathetic", "crazy" "basket cases". But we can't help but apply the same labels at this cheap and mean-spirited movie that largely depict women as shrill, shallow shrews.