Bride Wars

Plot synopsis:
The movie begins with a montage of shots of wedding items from a scrapbook box then a voice over from Candice Bergen tells the story of two girls (Emma and Liv) who went to the Plaza Hotel with their mothers for lunch in June and saw a wedding. They then fell in love with the idea of having their weddings in June at the Plaza when they got older. One of the things they picked up at the wedding was a hair barrette, which was dropped by the bride. Emma and Liv started a scrapbook box of wedding items including the barrette and even practiced getting married in their attic with Liv always acting as the bride. It then moves to present day where they are both 26.Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) are shown at a wedding of a friend with their respective boyfriends Daniel (Steve Howey) and Fletcher (Chris Pratt). At the wedding they critique it and say how they would change it and then go after the bouquet and a screen shot shows their intensity of trying to get it. Candice Bergen continues to voice over about their behavior.Liv is a up and coming tough Associate lawyer who is used to getting her way and Emma is a teacher who works with a colleague, Deb (Kristen Johnston) who continually mooches her time while doing very little. That night, while Liv and Emma are going through clothes in Liv's closet they discover a Tiffany ring box, which Liv is very excited about in thinking it's an engagement ring from Daniel. Emma keeps her from opening it, and suggests she not tell anyone yet and that Daniel should see her when she opens the ring. While at the bar that night, Liv has told everyone she is engaged, including her brother, Nate (Brian Greenberg). While celebrating, Liv becomes upset and goes outside where Emma comforts her in the fact her parents are not there to see how her life has turned out.Emma and Fletcher are eating Chinese for dinner when they open their fortune cookies, where she finds an engagement ring and says yes to his proposal. She calls Liv who is happy, but also seems a bit upset she was not first in getting engaged. The next day they are running in the park and Emma says she already has an appointment the next day with premiere wedding planner Marion St Claire (Candice Bergen) as they just can't work with anyone but her. Liv then rushes to Daniel's office and asks about the ring and if they are going to get engaged. He takes the ring out of his pocket and talks about how she is always one step ahead of everyone and if she had just waited for that evening he was about to propose, so they get engaged.The next morning Liv and Emma go to Marion's office and ask about June dates at the plaza. Marion says there are three spots left, 2 on the 6th and one on the 27th. Liv takes the 6th, as it was her parents anniversary. As they are leaving, they tell the incoming bride that there is only one date left in June at the Plaza. While out dress shopping, Emma finds a Vera Wang dress which Liv then tries on and chooses. Emma has decided to wear her mother's dress. While shopping, Marion calls to tell them their weddings were booked on the same date, June 6th. They ask about switching with the other bride and then get her name from the secretary (who was fired for screwing up). They chase the bride around a department store while she is scanning for wedding gifts. Being unsuccessful, they then start to talk about who has to move their date and neither wants to compromise. Their fiancés suggest a double wedding and they don't want to share the date. As tensions begin between the two, they agree to not make any decisions until it is figured out. While Liv and Daniel are out looking at invitations, Daniel talks to Fletcher. When Emma asks about Liv, Fletcher comments they were out doing their save the date cards. Emma gets upset and sends out a mass e-mail, which is poorly typed, to her entire address book, except for Liv, telling them all to save the date of June 6th. Liv and Emma are being thrown a joint bridal shower and get into an argument over Emma's e-mail and their behavior.They both continue with their wedding planning by making deposits on their date at the plaza, ordering invitations, picking out cakes, and not speaking to each other. Their friends refuse to take sides, so they have to find maid of honors and they both start calling really old friends and cousins with no luck. Liv hires her male assistant to be her maid of honor and Emma reluctantly asks Deb who says she will then need more help at school if she is going to be her maid of honor.Liv and Emma then begin a series of pranks on each other. Liv steals Emma's dream DJ for her wedding, darkens Emma's spray tanning to make her orange, she sends an alternative dance instructor to their wedding dance lesson who runs them ragged and plans to tamper with their video at the wedding by showing one from their spring break trip. Emma sends Liv cookies and chocolate supposedly from Daniel so she will gain weight and not fit her dress, puts an unflattering photo in their hometown paper about their wedding and changes Liv's hair highlights to blue. They both continue to drive their fiancés nuts with their intensity and fighting. Emma and Fletcher seem to have the most conflict.Liv is attending her bachelorette party at a strip club with three friends when Emma shows up and steals the show with a dance off and swinging on a rope. Liv is upset to lose to Emma and drinks several shots. The next day she is very late to work and shows up with blue hair to present a brief which she has fallen behind on, her boss is unimpressed and she is removed from the case. Emma meets Nate while he is heading to get his tuxedo and he makes a comment to her that he waited around too long.Emma and Liv seem to be missing each other, as they don't have a friend to talk to. Liv sees Emma running at the park, but she can't hear her over her ipod. Emma calls Liv at work, but she does not get through to her, as her assistant can't hear her due to her office sign being moved.The big day arrives and Emma and Liv are getting ready and Emma's dad visits Liv to wish her well and tells her that her parents would be proud. Liv feels bad and decides to switch Emma's movie back to what it should be, instead of the spring break she had substituted. She asks her assistant to switch it back, but he drops the CD in the flowers on purpose so it does not get changed. Emma's Dad comes to see Emma and gives her the scrapbook box they had as girls. He takes out the barrette and puts it in her hair, but Emma says it should have been Liv's. Both girls want to see each other, but it is time for them to walk down the isle. Their eyes meet in the hallway as they are about to enter their rooms and they smile slightly. As Emma enters her ballroom, the video plays of her on spring break. She gets really mad and runs into Liv's wedding and tackles her from behind. They flight and then say they can't do this anymore. As Emma gets up, Fletcher is very mad at her for ruining their wedding and he insults Liv. Emma stands up for Liv and says she wishes she were more like Liv. Emma tells Fletcher maybe they should not get married as he fell in love with who she was 10 years ago. They break up, and he leaves. Emma then takes the barrette of her hair and puts it in Livs; she then walks Liv down the isle. At their reception, Nate asks Emma to dance.It then flashes ahead to one year later, and Emma meets Liv for breakfast. Emma has returned from her honeymoon with Nate. Liv suggests that they toast, but Emma says she is not drinking and Liv says she is not either. They are both pregnant and due on March 3.

Tags: comedy, entertaining, romantic, flashback

Review:
Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) are two life-long best friends who've dreamed of a June wedding at the Plaza since they were kids.
Apparently, if you're a woman and live in Manhattan, the ultimate dream of your life is to get married at the Plaza in June, so when best friends Liv (Kate Hudson with a Paris Hilton/Britney Spears haircut) and Emma (Hathaway) get asked the fundamental question by their beaus, they immediately try to book the right place and date.
What started as a potentially entertaining critique of materialism and shallowness is revealed to be a poorly executed farce, with a succession of lame jokes instead of a plot (then again, one of the screenwriters is best known for performing on Saturday Night Live, where the skits have no connection whatsoever, so that may be an explanation) and two atrocious caricatures instead of leading ladies.In fairness, no one ever expected any true brilliance from Hudson, given the last really good movie she appeared in was Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous in 2000, but surely someone could have told Hathaway you just don't choose something this bland after working with Jonathan Demme (or Ang Lee, for that matter).
Yet judging by the reactions of those around me, I got the feeling that what I was experiencing wasn't exactly gender exclusive.The story here, which revolves around two best gal-pals Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) as they try to cope with their simultaneous weddings, is one that is likely to get a few chuckles from females, but less so with their male counterparts.
With little romance to back up the meagre plot, dull, dry characterisation coupled with non-existent chemistry between either the friends and their partners, or even themselves, the vast majority of Bride Wars turns ugly, rather quickly; the movie pushes that this cat fight between Hudson and Hathaway is meant to be fun and airy with plenty of laughs, but it's too transparent and formulated to even move beyond dry caricature.It doesn't help at all that the majority of the performances from the main cast are border line negligible.
It obviously about brides and whatever stuff they love and need, and from what I can figure most of the women (including the 4 women that dragged me there) in the theater enjoyed it.I do agree it is an original idea and does give esp the males out there the sheer intensity of how important this occasion is for women, and also to a certain extent why women may make good friends but the worst of enemies.Overall I give it a 6 on 10 due to a lot of predictability and clichés but I did like the chemistry of the 2 leads stars, the others characters seemed rather bland in fact entirely devoid of personality.Perhaps the only scene for men to enjoy is the bachelorette party - you 'll see - ;) Hathaway looks smokin' hot..
Thereby the are confronted with different problems and even try to ruin each others wedding."Bride Wars" doesn't really stand for movies I usually watch.
The jokes are even a bit dumb and absolutely not funny.Summing up I think that "Bride Wars" is a motion picture made more for girls who also have bright thoughts about their wedding..
Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway are lovely women and both try their best with poorly developed characters but when it comes to the chemistry it never catches fire, and in more ways than one I blame the script and direction for that.
Despite a vaguely absurd sounding premise (two best friends, both engaged on the same day, are forced to fight for their ideal wedding venue, causing a rift and fighting between one another), the film retained promise, with 'sad but true' kernels of profundity (how easily a friendship can be thrown to the winds and the common theme of the superficial flashiness of weddings overcoming the feelings involved, among others) which could have resulted in a satisfactory satire in the hands of a capable director or careful, intricate script.
Unfortunately, Bride Wars could not be more sorely lacking on either front, and as such, the film as a whole quickly descends into being more of a disaster than either protagonist's pending weddings, with the rare successful trace of broad satire often undermined by the screen writing's tendency to cave to easy, sap- fraught cliché and plot-be-damned circumstance, making even its occasional high points feel deflated and redundant.
Anne Hathaway rules the screens this month in Singapore, with three movies hitting the screens - Rachel Getting Married, Passengers, and now teaming up with Kate Hudson for my second wedding theme movie of the day, Bride Wars.
Alas this film by director Gary Winick had the trailer to thank for in letting every cat out of the bag that there's little surprise left when the girls have a go at each other.Liv (Hudson) and Emma (Hathaway) are best friends since young, where they were subconsciously programmed that they must be each other's maid of honour, as well as to have their weddings at New York's swanky The Plaza in June.
Nobody is getting any enjoyment out of this tripe.Emma and Liv, played by Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson respectively, are lifelong best friends who both share a dream.
In Manhattan, the lawyer Liv (Kate Hudson) and the school teacher Emma (Anne Hathaway) have been best friends since their childhood.
Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson are in the "Bride Wars" in this 2009 comedy about two best friends who, due to a scheduling mistake, end up with the same date for their wedding.
No wonder weddings are a dreaded event if "Bride Wars" be the case, as there's not much to be laughed about in this mirthless chick flick about two best friends trying to sabotage each other's matrimonial preparations when their wedding dates were accidentally booked on the same day at their much-sought New York City's Plaza Hotel.
As if getting past the overly contrived premise isn't enough, the film's lackadaisical direction that centers on the increasingly cartoonish brushes between its shrill and dunderhead protagonists prove too much to salvage for the combined charm of Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway.Hudson and Hathaway play Liv and Emma, childhood buddies who gush from having been proposed to by their boyfriends and the prospect of having their dream wedding at the ritzy locale but instantly turn bitter rivals upon realizing that due to a scheduling foul up, only one of them can proceed.
Such single-minded skirmish merely reduces its characters into irritating dunces when it's supposed to be the source of humor.Hudson and Hathaway may be charming women but no thanks to Gary Winnick's lifeless direction of a hackneyed script, both actors are reduced to annoying females in a drab romantic comedy which has an easy resolution obvious at the start, but won't go there before piling up on the slapstick with such airheaded vigor and patching them up with compulsory schmaltz.
If I had a list of films I regret seeing in the theater this one would be one of them.When a girl who I was friends with asked me to go see this movie I agree because I was being a gentleman and we did have a good time at the theater.But seeing it on TV a few months later turn out be what I was thinking seeing the film.
It just the same old song and dance we have seen in many chick flicks but this one is just pretty much take it to a whole new level.Casting Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson did get some people to come to the theaters but just what did it have to take for them to get cast in this film.It just amazing to me how some times a movie would just paste someone's name to the poster of the movie and expect them to get help sell tickets Nothing about this movie just feels right there is one funny punch line in the film but that's it other than that the film just feels broken The story of the film is nothing we haven't seen before nor do the characters try anything to be creative.
I don't bash chick flicks but this film was clearly just made not to be serious let alone to make a lot of moneyIt just goes to show that even two big name actresses are not even enough to make the movie worth your time, while they did work well together in the movie the rest of it just feels like it should have been left well enough alone.
Bride Wars, a movie about two inseparable friends since they were kids who dreamed of having their weddings at the Plaza in June but start a fight to destroy each others wedding when the date is set on the same day.
Anyone can enjoy a good light hearted chick flick i personally miss the how to loose a guy in 10 days kind of movies there what make us feel happy ....with everything going on in the world why shouldn't we have the right to make a film like this?
Hudson and Hathaway play childhood best friends Liv and Emma, who always dreamed of getting married at the Plaza Hotel in New York.
Hudson, although seemingly having a bad hair movie, is at her quirky and spirited best playing the strung too tight Liv. What "Bride Wars" misses is more quiet time between gags, so Liv and Emma can just be.
With a good director in Gary Winick and two big stars in the leads (Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway) this film should have been great.And to be fair it has it's moments, but about half way in the whole friendship of the girls is thrown away and they resort to doing very silly things.While its lovely to see these two glamorous women do lots of slapstick and physical comedy (maybe the reason they both signed on to do this film), the film has such a thin premise that it runs out of steam quickly.A shame, this could've been great..
In Manhattan, the lawyer Liv (Kate Hudson) and the school teacher Emma (Anne Hathaway) are friends since forever who've dreamed their wedding at the Plaza since they were kids.
Live (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) are best friends and want to be the maid of honor in each other's wedding.
Worse is that it stars Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, two of the smartest and funniest actresses of their generation, as life-long friends who stage a mean-spirited spite war when they find that their respective weddings are booked on the same day, in the same place, at the same time.
Handled with care, I could probably go with that premise but when the climactic moment has one bride tackling the other in the aisle during the ceremony, I had long since checked out.Hudson and Hathaway are Liv and Emma, lifelong BFF's who have dreamed of their weddings since they were little girls, staging their ceremony in front of the mirror.
The guys seem to be props that are set up so the girls won't look stupid going solo at their own wedding.After being proposed to on the spot, Emma and Liv seek out the most sought-after wedding planner in New York, Marion St. Claire (Candice Bergen) who is suppose to resemble the kind of hard-assed business woman that Meryl Streep played in 'The Devil Wear Prada'.
Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson star in this romantic comedy about two best friends fighting for their wedding day which is booked on the same date but do the two brides make the movie a hit or is it all doom and gloom for the grooms?
The acting was okay, Anne Hathaway did a good job playing as the quiet Emma but Kate Hudson became quite annoying forty-five minutes into the movie as the bossy perfectionist Liv. The writing is same-old, same-old and has been done better a thousand times before but this isn't really a bad entry into the rom-com genre.
The plot wasn't really very creative and was very predictable from the start, two best friends both have big dreams about getting married, both get engaged on the same day and both weddings are booked on the same day so the two brides fight about it.
Kate Hudson becomes very annoying very quickly taking the bitchy role of Liv. Fans of romantic comedy movies will like this but if you're looking for a laugh-out-loud comedy, look the other way.Read more reviews on: www.dudedazzmoviereviews.wordpress.com.
This movie is simply about two girls, best friends since childhood, who by accident have their weddings scheduled on the same day at the same place.
The trailer looks interesting, I have never seen Kate Hudson in any film before and she looks fun, so I decided to see the film.Two girls want their dream weddings at the same place same date so they tried to sabotage each other to make her wedding better than the other.I expected some bitchy fights but their tricks to each other is like watching two 5-year-olds fighting over a doll in kindergarten.It is nice to see them friends again in the end but thought I'd get to more drama.
If the story was real life Kate would have won the battle of the brides.It is a fun DVD I rented but I wouldn't buy it as I don't see it a great movie (it's just a chick flick) to add to my collection.
This was one of the funniest I have seen in years as Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway start off as close, inseparable friends whose friendship dissolves into war when they find out that their weddings have been scheduled on the same date at the same location.
Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway touched me with their believable performances as two best friends who shared a dream together and ended up with their friendship triumphing over petty superficiality and disputes.
This evil bridal empire stars Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway as Liv & Emma, childhood friends who become bitter rivals when their weddings are scheduled on the same date & time at their fantasy wedding hotel site.
I went to see Bride Wars to the cinema because there was not any other option,since I had already seen all the movies which were been exhibited at the cinema I went.Bride Wars is an atrocious and pathetic "comedy" which enormously bored me; but I had somewhat predicted the movie would cause that reaction on me,because it bares some resemblances with the sadly popular TV programme Bridezillas.If someone is lucky enough to have never seen an episode of Bridezillas (I have only seen the first one),that programme shows the extremes to which some women lead into for having the most spectacular and memorable (translation : vulgar and of an extreme bad taste) wedding in history...or,better said,on that week.Bride Wars could have easily been an episode from that pathetic TV programme.Besides,the level of quality of both (which is minimum) is more or less at the same level.If you have seen the trailer of this film...well,you have already seen the movie.The characters completely lack of any development and the conflict is extremely stupid.I think this movie is made for the female spectators because the "troubles" they have to face would be irrelevant for the men.So,although I found it as an irritating movie,I think some women will feel identified with the things the movie shows.But,that is not an excuse for presenting a so poor story.There is not a scene on this movie which is not predictable.And if all that bad elements were not enough,we have a disastrous direction.The main problem from this movie is that the it completely lacks of intelligence,good humor or credible performances.I usually like the work of actresses Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway and,although they have some likable chemistry when they are together,they do not have too much else to do.Bride Wars is a pathetic movie.Do not make the same mistake I did and do not waste money on this piece of crap..
Bride Wars is a movie about two best friends that become rivals when they schedule their respective weddings on the same day.
That was "Bride Wars", movie where Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson play best friends forever who turn out enemies simply because they were forced to marry on the exact same date.
This movie is beneath them and there is no reason for them to do it and for them to lower themselves as actors to do this film.Bride Wars is about two best friends since childhood.
I think one of the reasons this movie disturbed me though was due to the fact that there are women like this, one's that are so beyond obsessed with their wedding they don't even realize they're getting married.
It takes an astounding amount of effort to make women like Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway unwatchable, but Bride Wars accomplishes it.
The movie starts off with Emma (Anne Hathaway) and Liv (Kate Hudson) planning to have their dream weddings at The Plaza in June.
Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson play life long best friends whom get engaged and schedule June weddings until a screw up leaves only one opening.
Emma Allen (Anne Hathaway) and Olivia 'Liv' Lerner (Kate Hudson) are best friends whom getting marry.
Liv and Emma are best friends who since childhood have planned every detail of their respective weddings.But a clerical error led to them to complicated events in this romantic comedy entitled,Bride Wars.The film stars Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway together with Candice Bergen, Bryan Greenberg, Chris Pratt, Steve Howey and Kristen Johnston.
What we have here are some fine actors who made a movie of a pitifully trivial story, and the funny parts aren't really that funny.From childhood Kate Hudson as Liv and Anne Hathaway as Emma were best friends.
Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson play Emma and Liv, two twentysomethings who have been inseparable best friends since childhood.