Review: Bride Wars

I basically watched this so I could take part in the Mark Kermode challenge to find ten films worse than Bride Wars released this year. After watching Bride Wars its hard to imagine that feat being made possible. The main problem with Bride Wars is that most of the characters are so one-dimensional that its hard to care. Anne Hathaway is a pushover and Kate Hudson is driven and they have to learn not to be. Their grooms are interchangeable while Hudson's brother played by Jake from One Tree Hill is a walking chiseled-jaw. In fact the only likeable character is the teacher played by Kirsten 'Third Rock from the Sun' Johnson who we're supposed to think is a self-involved slob but is actually the only person to show some depth. The worse character in the whole piece is the wedding planner/narrator played by Candice Bergen who claims that women are dead before they get married. It's like feminsim didn't even happen.

The so-called comedy sequences involving blue-hair and an oompa-loompa-esque spray tan are horrendous. Lessons are learnt at the end, but most of those lessons are learnt by the audience about ten minutes into the film. An ambigous ending means that a sequel possibly entitled Baby Wars could be next. I sure hope not. Deoid of any humour or emotion this certainly isn't a romantic (or any other) comedy. Unless you're watching it to take part in the Dr. K challenge avoid it like Swine Flu.