I just saw Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway?s new movie Bride Wars. The previews for this movie I first saw when I went to see Twilight and had been waiting for it to come out. I went today and while it had competition with ?Unborn,? it had a decent amount of people in the theater. Now I don?t know about ?Unborn”,? but Bride Wars got a audience applause after it ended. That?s got to count for something.
While It was a good flick and I would watch it again, I had some issues with it, so don?t read beyond if you do not want to be spoiled.
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Bride Wars is about 2 childhood best friends who from a young age dream about getting married in June at The Plaza. They both end up getting proposed to at the same time (not exact same time but within days), and then begin to plan their weddings. All is good at the start until a mix up with the wedding planner and their weddings end up booked on the same day. Well of course a bride can’t share their wedding day (as these two both do not like that option), so all hell ensues. Kate’s character Liv, and Anne’s character Emma begin a round of tricks, sabotoges, etc to ruin the others wedding. There is candy, tan lotion, a strip club, blue hair all involved and more. What I liked as well in this movie was the guys. Casted as Liv’s soon to be, Daniel who was Steve Howey who played Van on Reba, and Fletcher who was played by Chris Pratt who played Bright on Everwood as Emma’s soon to be.
Now the relationships with the couples seem genuine and really fit one another. So when we start to see Fletcher and Emma get into fights over her behavior it seems out of place for me. It was not the good relationship that seemed forced, but the bad part when they start to get into more arguments. There is also a seen where Emma and Nate (Liv’s brother) played by Brian Greenberge of One Tree Hill, meet on the streets and go rent a tux together you start to think… WTF? Its obvious that Nate likes her, and disturbingly you see that Emma likes him too. So with all the backstabing and fighting going on between the two for a precious wedding day you kind of go WTF is she doing all that then, if she seems to like Nate. I was dissapointed… in the end she does not marry Fletcher. Fast foward a year and she is meeting Liv (because they make up after a roll on the floor at the weddings), for lunch or something. The cheesiest ending ever… we find out they are both preggers… and not only that… DUE ON THE SAME DAY! Come on… we all like happy endings, but not stupid endings. Although these issues bother me, I would see this movie again, it is hilarious.
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