Bride Wars Critic Reviews
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Bride Wars is pretty thin soup. The characters have no depth or personality, no quirks or complications, no conversation.Read the full review
Bride Wars pretends to be a satire of wedding mania, but since there's virtually nothing else to the movie, the satire comes depressingly close to endorsement.Read the full review
If you came to see two pretty girls in wedding dresses wrestle, you won't be disappointed.Read the full review
A dopey if largely painless romantic comedy.Read the full review
A chick flick that makes its chick characters - and by extension its chick audience - look like hateful, backward toddlers, and there is something wrong with that.Read the full review
It represents a missed opportunity on every level. As a black comedy, it fails. As a satire of the bloated wedding industry, it fails. As a drama about friendship triumphing over all, it fails.Read the full review
The idea of a revenge comedy isn't necessarily a bad one, Bride Wars simply fails at it despite having the formidable duo of Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, who in their own distinctive ways usually command the screen.Read the full review
A shrill, mechanical comedy.Read the full review
No cues are needed to understand the plot, which feels computer-generated and barely serves to sustain an hour and a half running time.Read the full review
Bride Wars is about as funny as a cringingly awkward wedding toast.Read the full review