Bride Wars is pretty thin soup. The characters have no depth or personality, no quirks or complications, no conversation.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
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 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 Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
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 Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
Like moussed hair and inverted-pyramid shoulder pads, this sloppy, sloppy slapstick is an artifact from the 1980s.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Betsy Sharkey
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 Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Bride Wars is about as funny as a cringingly awkward wedding toast.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
It's both slack and bloated; I've been to Catholic wedding masses that had more zip. I think it clocked in at fewer than 90 minutes, but it seemed to last longer than most marriages do.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
Predictable, lazy and as overprocessed as Kate Hudson's hair, this thoroughly joyless movie also possesses a deep nasty streak, making it loathsome when it might have been merely annoying.Read Full Review »
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