WMR #6 - Bride Wars

The week of 5/9 was quite the "Kate Hudson Bride Movie" week.  It started off with:

Bride Wars: 2009 

Week of 5/9

This movie is about two best friends from childhood, Liv (Kate Hudson) who's the outgoing one and Emma (Anne Hathaway) who's the pushover. From their earliest school years, they have envisioned their wedding(s).  They would pretend to act it out where Liv was always the bride and Emma the groom. This symbiotic relationship would continue until their real wedding plans showed them what they were really like - until Emma realized how parasitic the relationship really was.

The friends before the war.

 We revisit the two as adults when they both (coincidentally, of course) become engaged at the same time. Since they both have had the same dream wedding location, "The Plaza", they just happen to pick the same wedding planner (Candace Bergen). And...oh no!...there are only 3 slots left at "The Plaza" - 2 on the same date and 1 on a different date. OK...no problem...Liv picks first and Emma gets the date left over.  But again...oh no!...A mixup! The two girls are scheduled to have their wedding(s) ON THE SAME DAY! And both of them refuse to find a different venue. Thus, conflict ensues.

The two go crazy and start sabotaging each other - Emma feeds Liv all kinds of sweets so she gets fat, Liv messes with Emma's spray tan, Emma dyes Liv's hair blue and finally, Liv plays a video of Emma when she was trashed on Spring Break.



I'd much rather have the blue hair than the terrible orange tan.



Emma's fiancé (Chris Pratt - "Andy" from the show Parks and Rec) begins to get mad because she's not the sweet, laid back girl he fell in love with. And both Emma and Liv begin to miss the bestfriend they'd always had. Eventually, when they can sabotage no more, it all comes to a spectacular end when Emma runs screaming into Liv's wedding ceremony and the two begin wrestling on the floor in classic cat-fight style.

This leads to a shocker(!) ending where the two end up becoming friends again. Liv gets married and Emma surprisingly (for reals this time) does not.  And yet it's still happily ever after for the two girls.



The friends after the war.

My opinion: this movie review can be summed up with one question:

Since they were best friends and have the exact same wedding dream, why couldn't they have combined their weddings and had one really awesome joint wedding of 400 people?

Emma and Liv's reaction(s) makes brides-to-be look completely self-centered and crazy about their weddings to the expense of everyone around them (including their grooms). But I don't really believe that. I mean, how many people (girls) really would want to risk a friendship of 20+ years for one day? Sure, my wedding is important but it's definitely not important enough to lose friends over.

Oh...and I think Anne Hathaway is damned funny looking - her eyes are too far apart and her mouth too big. So I'll give this 2/5 stars since there were some entertaining moments and because I'm glad that they were back to being friends in the end. And Kate Hudson is kinda cool.

I'll let Math weigh in in the comments since I'm posting from MD today. Interestingly, this weekend I also watched part of 27 Dresses and Made of Honor, but I'll wait to review those when Math and I can watch them together (hope I don't talk too much!). :) Up next: Something Borrowed ("Kate Hudson bride movie" #2).

 

Wedding Movie List:
1). Father of the Bride  2/5
2). My Big Fat Greek Wedding  4/5
3). The Wedding Singer
4). Made of Honor
5). The Wedding Crashers
6). Four Weddings and a Funeral
7). 27 Dresses
8). My Best Friend's Wedding
9). Bride Wars 2/5
10). The Wedding Planner
11). Bridesmaids 1/5
12). Muriel's Wedding
13). Runaway Bride
14). You Again 1/5
15). Something Borrowed 

16). I Love You, Man 4/5

17). The Hangover