REVIEW: Bride Wars

Bride Wars – 2/10
How does Kate Hudson manage to still get work? Her filmography is appalling, and Bride Wars will no doubt cement her as romantic-comedies worst leading lady. Bride Wars central premise is that all women care about is the wedding day and will do anything to make it the –oh my god, best day ever!
The two unlikeable best friends, Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, have always dreamt of the perfect day they will marry their prince-charmings, as a chocolate box flashback to childhood illustrates. They are both proposed to at the same time and both book their weddings at the Ritz. After an unspecified mix-up, only one wedding can be held, so bride wars are held, hilarious set ups for Anne and Kate to sabotage each other’s big day.
If dying someone’s hair blue or making someone’s tan very orange sounds absolutely hilarious, then perhaps Bride Wars is not so bad. However, if that sounds more like you’ve been framed level of hilarity, perhaps it is best to avoid Bride Wars. Awful performances, especially from Hudson, undistinguishable male leads, the almost inevitable cameo of Candice ‘I play the stern older glamorous woman’ Bergen and incredibly sexist displays of womanhood, would a fully qualified lawyer and teacher really be that stupid, self involved and shallow? There is of course a lot of dress, wedding porn, pleasing on the eye, but does not make up for the boring, unimaginative, lazy and offensive script, poor comic delivery or the depressing feeling it will awaken in the audience. Did feminism ever happen? The audience’s poor response and lack of laughter summed up the experience. Poor use of a cheesy voice over – really? Is it necessary for a narrator to explain what is happening or is it a means of making sure the audience has not fallen asleep or knocked themselves unconscious?