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Movie Overview
Cast
• Kate Hudson
• Anne Hathaway
• Kristen Johnson
Director
• Gary Winick
MPAA Rating
PG - for suggestive content, language and some rude behavior
Bride Wars (2009)

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OFCS Rating: 15% Rotten
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D
"Bride Wars is also a missed opportunity for a crackerjack comedy, dropping any hint of mean-spirited delight to kitten play with mundane nuptial wish-fulfillment and half-realized romantic nonsense."  BrianOrndorf.com  Brian Orndorf

D+
"With a title like "Bride Wars" you'd expect some explosive comic moments of wedding sabotage and subterfuge, but instead you get a clunky formula romantic comedy, even by Hollywood standards."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

1.5/5
"It's a movie that mistakenly believes that we should want to like these people."  DVDTalk.com  David Cornelius

2/4
"...a hopelessly predictable comedy whose positive attributes are ultimately outweighed by its negatives."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

1/4
"Bride Wars is being released early in January, typically a stomping ground for bad movies. In this way, it has been perfectly placed."  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

D+
"Hathaway should be embarrassed, and Hudson should ask Hathaway what it's like to still be capable of feeling embarrassment."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

F
"You leave this chick flick disaster feeling like an escapee from a POW camp."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

1/5
"Two shallow women friends become enemies in this unappealing comedy."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

1.5/4
"There's more cheer to be gained from staring outside at a bleak and desolate winterscape in the twilight of a shortened day than paying good money to endure this example of cinematic offal."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

2.5/5
"As Hathaway and Hudson plan their perfect days and plot to destroy each other, like a gown-clad version of one of those old Mad magazine Spy vs. Spy comics, Bride Wars pauses to ask the very important question of what happens when you focus on your weddin"  Redbox  James Rocchi

"Parental Content Review"  Screen It!  Jim Judy

"While it may be tempting to write off 'Bride Wars' as harmlessly mediocre, this race to the altar also falters by trafficking in female stereotypes."  ReelTalk Movie Reviews  John P. McCarthy

3/5
"You could do worse in Hollywood's dumping ground."  7M Pictures  Kevin Carr

D
"...only Hudson has been stumping the talk shows on this one. Hathaway appears to be hiding in her closet until it blows over and everyone gets back to remembering her previous film."  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

"Aren't we [women] adorable in all our irrational shrieking harpy juvenile shallow materialistic glory? We so are!"  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

1/4
"Never quite bitchy enough to be enjoyable."  TheMovieReport.com  Michael Dequina

C
"Movies thrive on smackdowns. "Clash of the Titans." "Alien vs. Predator." "Freddy vs. Jason." Rocky vs. Apollo Creed. And now, Bridezilla vs. Bridezilla."  Beliefnet  Nell Minow

1/4
"The most lamentable thing about the dismal Bride Wars is the total absence of fatalities."  Slant Magazine  Nick Schager

1/5
"After last year's "27 Dresses," 20th Century Fox has decided to once again make another bridal-themed movie aimed at female audiences who are in the mood to see a movie but have no apparent desire to see a good one."  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

3/5
"A lively tone and sharp performances help bring this rather thin comedy to life"  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

"Enough to make one yearn for the rich complexity of Home Improvement."  Projection Booth  Rob Humanick

D
"All it takes is a bride scorned to turn a stock movie character into a raving caricature of emotional instability."  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  Sean Axmaker

3/5
"finds sharp laughs in the nooks and crannies of the formula"  Filmcritic.com  Sean O'Connell

4/10
"The funniest Bridezilla moments are in the trailer; if you've seen that, you've seen the movie."  SSG Syndicate  Susan Granger

4/10
"A paean to friendship and conspicuous consumption that is just simply wrong. On a number of levels."  Antagony & Ecstasy  Tim Brayton

0/4
"reptilian, hateful stuff, biologically engineered to disrespect--with maximum efficiency--the precise demographic to which it targets itself."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw
OFCS Rating: 15% Rotten
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