Bride Wars

2009 "Even best friends can't share the same wedding day."
5.5| 1h29m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 09 January 2009 Released
Producted By: Dune Entertainment
Country: United States of America
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Official Website: https://newregency.com/movies/bride-wars
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Two best friends become rivals when their respective weddings are accidentally booked for the same day.

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AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Gideon24 Under the category of silly and pointless comes the 2009 comedy Bride Wars, a film that provides sporadic laughs here and there, but strains credibility at just about every turn.Kate Hudson plays Liv and Anne Hathaway plays Emma, childhood BFF's who have both dreamed of having their weddings at the Plaza in June ever since they were kids. We then see Liv and Emma both receive marriage proposals almost simultaneously and then make a beeline to renowned wedding planner Marian St. Clair (Candice Bergen) who initially arranges separate weddings for both gals at the Plaza in June, but a clerical error finds Liv and Emma's weddings scheduled on the same day, which ignites a war between the two brides-to-be that gets WAY out of control.Clearly the inspiration for Bridezillas, there's so much that goes on here in the name of comedy that I had a hard time buying. I understand that a woman's wedding is the most important day of her life, but I would think if a woman's wedding is scheduled the same day as her BFF that, at some point, one of these women would either change the date or the venue or their wedding so that this very special day can still be their own. Is the venue and date SO important that you would destroy your best friend's day as well as your own just to have your own way?My confusion about this is addressed in the film through the two grooms- to-be (Chris Pratt, Steve Howey), who really don't understand what the fuss is about and don't get why being married at the Plaza in June is such a deal breaker. I also don't understand why the guys put up with the shenanigans that go on as long as they do.Gary Winick's direction is a little on the manic side and the screenplay by Greg DePaul and Casey Wilson (Wilson makes a cameo appearance as the bride-to-be who has stolen the date our heroines need for separate weddings) is kind of all over the place, but one thing this film does convey despite the over-the-top goings-on, is that these two women really are BFF's who would walk through fire for each other and it's interesting to see them trying to destroy each other one minute and feeling mad guilt about it the next, but does it make up for the rest of the silliness that happens here?
Stompgal_87 I remember seeing this advertised shortly before it was released and how I wanted to see it because it looked different from other wedding films I've seen such as 'Runaway Bride (best wedding film I've seen in my life so far)' and 'My Best Friend's Wedding (not quite as good as this one or 'Runaway Bride' but it still had two of my favourite actresses in the names of Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz).' I saw this with a member of staff from my former care home (going to the cinema was a regular pastime for me when I lived there) and we enjoyed it partly due to my insistence of dragging her along to see the 'girlie films.' Re-visiting this just over five years after my first viewing, I still enjoyed it although I noticed a few things differently.One complaint I have about this film is its uneven pacing. Up until the scene where Marion the wedding planner announces that Liv's and Emma's weddings were booked on the same day, it was somewhat slow. After that scene it slows down again up until Emma sends Liv several treats so that Liv can't fit into her wedding dress; Liv ruins Emma's spray tan; Emma swaps Liv's chosen highlight colour for blue and so on. That part of the actual 'wars' was swiftly paced but after that the pace slows down again until the wedding scene. In spite of the uneven pacing, the movie was brilliantly filmed, included some fine uses of still photography, was sumptuously edited (particularly the brief scenes of Emma passing the news of her engagement to her friends and Emma announcing her 'save-the-date'), and well-acted if it was silly and a little overdone in places. The incidental music was classy and charming in a similar manner to that used in 'Enchanted' and I liked some of the songs on the soundtrack such as Duffy's songs 'Rain On Your Parade' and 'I'm Scared,' Eve's 'Tambourine' and Technotronic's 'Pump Up the Jam.' The set designs were elaborate, particularly those of Marion's office and the wedding venue, Anne Hathaway was especially beautiful while the plot and script were fresh for a wedding film. I also found the opening sequence and the flashback of Liv and Emma witnessing a wedding plus playing 'weddings' themselves absolutely adorable.The writing was witty and clever in places and I liked how Emma and Liv made up during Liv's wedding (due to Emma having called hers off but still attending Liv's reception and marrying someone else a year later). I also liked how the announcements of Liv and Emma becoming pregnant and their babies being due on the same day linked to their weddings being booked on the same day, despite the ending being rather abrupt.All in all the pacing was uneven but I liked its originality and it is the second best wedding film I have seen to date. 9/10.
ironhorse_iv I think an important question to ask is - do you think women actually liked this movie, because it's seems like a lot of women don't. Oh course base on this movie, a woman's ultimate goal in life is to get marriage! It's the only thing that can validate her as a person, even if she has a successful and lucrative career! Keeping a childish dream wedding fantasy in mind into adulthood is completely healthy and not a psychosis at all! And of course after marriage all women have to look forward to is having babies! This movie definitely panders to the lowest common denominator. Popular media is obsessed with convincing people that all women care about is "romance" or their definition of it, getting married, having babies, and looking pretty. Things targeted to women almost always depict self-absorbed, vain, spoiled idiots who only care about getting a man and having some sort of fairy-tale wedding. Years and years of women being defined by marriage and the generations since the Genesis of feminism being raised on Disney Princesses and sexist toys. Not all women are obsessed with the perfect wedding and not all women are like the characters that the two main actress plays. Emma Allen (Anne Hathaway) and Olivia 'Liv' Lerner (Kate Hudson) are best friends whom getting marry. Olivia "Liv" Lerner, a successful attorney who is used to getting her way, and won't settle for anything else yet it is shown that she is supposedly protective and extremely caring of Emma. Yeah right, writers. Emma Allan, a middle school teacher slightly has a meek nature and "gives in" to avoid conflict. I get that they were trying to establish Emma was too eager to please and needed to be more assertive about the things she wanted but that angle really only works when the character isn't acting like a petty jerk. Both been planning every detail of their weddings, since first witnessing a wedding 20 years ago at the Plaza Hotel. Therefore, they both have made it a lifetime priority to be married in the same location in June. The montage of power point photos of them planning it is annoying. They schedule their weddings with New York's most famous wedding planner, Marion St. Claire (Candice Bergen). She plays little to the plot, but serves as the narrator of the story which also can do without, as there is no needed for it. A clerical error happens, and they are scheduled to have a wedding on the same day which has cause some conflict. Both will not compromise losing the June date. Eventually, the two women declared war and begone to sabotage each other's wedding hints the movie title card. The movie is over the top, the notion that a passionate female friendship can turn ugly only because of one date in a heartbeat is, sadly, unrealistic. The "true friendship" in this movie is questionable at best. I mean, they claim that they are grand BFFs, but the minute they can't get their ideal wedding they turn on each other? What type of friendship is that? Two supposedly inseparable lifelong friends doing cruel vindictive things to one another for essentially no real reason and when one of the would-be husbands points out just how ridiculous this behavior is this suddenly makes him an un-supportive, un-seeing, insensitive stick in the mud and the relationship collapses. That's a rotten message: implying that a man's role in a marriage is to blandly indulge and support their spouse in all things even when their spouse is essentially hurting themselves. It makes Emma's fiancé seem like a controlling jerk, when in truth Emma is the one making a fool out of herself. The two main guys can be seen as almost equally offensive (but not quite as much), blank, two-dimensional characters. Whose entire existence hings on working and pleasing their to-be wives. They also seem to have flaws so minimal and small they're ridiculous. I half expected them to just come out and reveal that they were artificial cyborgs made to please ridiculous, mean-spirited, and selfish fake woman stereotypes. Perhaps there would have been potential if they truly went for the dark comedy/satire route, but those types of films generally require endings that aren't happily ever after. It seems, however, that the script intends the audience to identify with the protagonists and even feel warmfuzzies about them at the end. Most do not; actually, I'm pretty sure almost anyone anywhere would find the characters appalling, not to mention probably insulting. This women are not heroes, victimizing a poor woman in a Bloomingdales store scene and the following scene where they're being kicked out the front entrance and have an argument outside. Just doesn't sound like really qualify as good publicity for Bloomingdales or womanhood. The film might have been if the writers had explored a potential lesbian subtext suggested by scenes. And the only thought that kept ringing through my head is why these two women aren't married to each other? They are the only people on Earth that I think could stand one another Seeing how this movie was directed by a man name Gary Winick, the movie is so rife with disparaging female stereotypes, yet the story was written by a woman no less. She equally to blame. It is lucky for us that this movie didn't do well at the box office as that part at the end was clearly sequel baiting. They were on purpose setting up a 'conflict' over the day they'll be having a baby or some type of baby shower 'war'. That sequel idea had a abortion.
megan-417-263558 I have read a few reviews on this film saying that it's silly, stupid and basically just a waste of time to make. Personally, I don't agree. True, it has it's bad moments, some that are unrealistic, but doesn't every movie have that? I enjoyed it quite a bit, but even I have to say I've seen far better.Two girls, who have been best friends since they were little, are in a battle as they don't want their wedding on the same day. If they're not sharing it (as it's mentioned at one point) then why the fighting? Okay, they each want to have the other at their wedding, but if they're as close friends as everyone thinks, then can't they just think 'Ok, neither of us want to have our wedding in three years' (the other date mentioned). 'Let's just have it separately, and we can reminisce after' (is that the right word)I like it because, in a way, it's realistic and I enjoy films like that. I like the actors cast in it, I like the plot and everything, it's a good film. But only Deb, Emma and Liv have really strong characters, like every film should have, and that gets rid of the shine that this would have if it was better thought out. So Emma's a doormat, Liv's a brat and Deb's a pain in the neck. But once the fight gets rolling, the two friends are just one person set in two bodies. All the men are EXACTLY the same in this, and I can't see anything too weird in the wedding organizer. So, all in all, it's the type of film you'd watch on a rainy day when you're bored with nothing to do. It's only just enjoyable to keep you on your seat until the very end, but it vanishes from you're mind as as soon as it stops. Not the type of film you'd obsess over.