Movie Reviews: Bride Wars

[Matt]

Fox should probably not have invited critics to the Bride Wars wedding, although several of them express sympathy for the actresses playing the brides, Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times comments that they "are good actors and quick-witted women, here playing characters at a level of intelligence approximating Hal 9000 after he has had his chips pulled." Similarly Betsy Sharkey remarks in the Los Angeles Times: "For Hudson and particularly Hathaway, both fine actresses, you hope they will really think twice before committing to another Bride Wars by any name." Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia Inquirer goes further: "How bad can a movie be, with Goldilocks Hudson and Cinderella Hathaway?" she asks. "So excruciating that Hudson's sunshine can't warm it and Hathaway's rose redolence can't mask its stink. It's the rotten -- and possibly, poisoned -- apple of fairy-tale movies." As for Candice Bergen, who plays a wedding planner in the movie, Lou Lumenick in the New York Post comments that she "seems intensely bored as the wedding planner of both women -- and she will have plenty of company in the audience."

Not my type.

[Unbreakable]

Wow. It must be bad. I'm going to move this to news.

[Kino]

Yeah I read that too. Thinking it would be a good movie.

[Bartle]

Dang, that sounds bad, but I've heard a lot of horrible stuff about the movie.

[G.K.S.]

This is the first time I heard of this movie.

[Matt]

^ Trailer looks horrible, too.