Bride Wars

Bride Wars

Genre: Comedy

By Columbia Pictures

Directed by: Gary Winick

Runtime: 89 minutes

Cast: OKate Hudson (Liv), Anne Hathaway (Emma), Bryan Greenberg (Nate), Chris Pratt (Fletcher), Candice Bergen (Marion St. Claire), Kristen Johnson (Deb)

I don’t know about you but I love chick flicks and I love seeing beautiful gowns, splendid dresses and gorgeous women. It is beyond my comprehension as to why so many critics dislike Bride Wars and relegate it to being childish and shallow. I for one, enjoyed the movie and had tears welling up in my eyes at several moments in this movie.

What was there to dislike about Bride Wars? We get two great and beautiful actresses in a bitchy catfight in which the best friends try to one-up the other and end up hurting each other and themselves. Refusing to relent and not wanting to play second fiddle to the other party, the childhood best of friends became arch enemies because they want to be the special one on their wedding day, which happened to be booked on the same day at the same time, same place.

One nagging feeling I had was the ease with which both parties went about their wedding preparations without the BFF. It is such a pity considering they could have so much fun preparing for the wedding together. The shadowy presence of the men in their lives as the two brides went about their business in preparing for the all-important wedding appears to be the bane of chick flicks. It’s as if the men are merely props to facilitate the occurrence of this important life-transforming moment.

Perhaps they are just too wrapped up in their emotions of being a bride at The Plaza, their lifelong childhood dream come true! Cue: *Yelps of excitement and delight!*And I’m sure this scenario must ring true in many wedding preparations where the excited bride-to-be is so in her own world that she totally forgets that the wedding is just the beginning and not the eventual fulfillment of her childhood dream?

Some may find their quarrel too petty and unbelievable. But believe me, friendships and marriages have broken up due to less petty and seemingly more trivial issues than this! I have witnessed female friendships falling apart because of an insensitive remark, due to the adamant need to be right by both parties and the “me-first” attitude. Women best friends have the knack of knowing what hurts the other the most and using it as a weapon in desperate times. So for me, Bride Wars is totally real and true in my world!

Other grouses include not having enough footage on the extravagance and the elaborateness of the wedding preparation and the splendour of this most important day of their lives. However, the focus is more on the friendship than the wedding which is all the more better.

All in all, Bride Wars was a totally enjoyable one and a half hours in the cinema where Anne Hathaway dresses in itsy bitsy clothes gyrating and oozing sex appeal while Kate Hudson gets to flaunt her Vera Wang gown in its magnificence. The dress does make the girl.