A Bridal Disaster

There are bad films, and there are worse films, then there are some films that are so bad, that they are actually good. Bride Wars is such a film, this train wreck of a disaster is an epic tale about two brides, the story spells disaster when their weddings are scheduled on the same day, as they always dreamed of having june wedding at the plaza, anyone else rolling their eyes yet? The film has Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson in its leading roles, and has a metascore of 24.

The film is unintentionally laughable, and thus rather entertaining, the overall premise of the film is that two brides, who each dreamed of having june weddings at the plaza hotel, have their weddings scheduled on the same day by bureaucratic error, thus these lifelong friends become mortal enemies in an attempt to shatter the wedding dreams of the other with such inventive traps as hair dye and spray tan, does anyone actually believe that they make a tan called blood orange?

One of the many problems of this film is that neither of its main characters are at all likeable, much less three dimensional. Hathaway plays Emma Allen, a teacher who only seems to be come engaged for the sole wish of getting married at the plaza, in fact each of the main characters remark 'where are our divorces'. Hudson plays an equally unlikeable character, Liv Learner, a lawyer who utters phrases that are too hokey for even a John Grisham novel, and who is so unlikeable that Stan Lee would describe her as too hideous to play a comic book villain.

This film contains character twists that are so ridiculous that in even an average movie, one would question the integrity of the characters, this movie is so heinous, that even in the first five minutes, one questions whether the characters have any integrity, in fact one is even pushed to question whether the characters have any emotions. The one redeeming factor of this movie is that it is not boring, somehow the filmmakers manage to add enough twists and turns, which story-wise add little in the way of character development, yet which are engaging and at times a little inventive.

Overall this is a cheap and ludicrously commercial forgettable comedy, it gives two dimensional characters, and has numerous plot holes and thoroughly unlikeable characters. Yet it is also a little fun and on the plus side, its better than every single Adam Sandler movie. In short don't buy it, but if you can watch it for free online, and have nothing more useful to do, then its not a completely horrendous way to spend an hour and a half, just don't take it too seriously. Rating: C+

 
Emma: [to Liv] Your wedding's gonna be huge, just like your ass at prom.
Liv: Your wedding can suck it.