Bride Wars

What it’s about:

Childhood friends Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) have dreamed of having their wedding at the Plaza Hotel in New York since they were six years old. Both recently engaged, their dream is set to become reality thanks to wedding planner extraordinaire, Marion St. Claire (Candice Bergen). After a mix-up, the best friends' weddings are scheduled for the same day! A bitchy battle ensues as each tries to get the other to move her wedding date.

What we thought of it:

"This is a real girls-night-in movie. Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway play Liv and Emma respectively with a youthful charm: They've got the chick-flick role down pat!

When two best friends end up having to share their wedding day, the ensuing drama is unstoppable. Expect backstabbing, ridiculous pranks and the eventual development from bitch to blushing bride."

Predictable movies should get predictable reviews like the one above. They don’t deserve the effort of deconstruction and critical comment. The only revelation here is that the wedding movie desperately needs to evolve.

It’s sad that after the greatest New York wedding movie of 2008, Sex and the City, there comes this pale, run-of-the-mill afterthought that will never match up to SATC's originality, style and substance. The focus of Bride Wars is supposed to be on the bridal rivalry, but every evil action is sugar-coated with wedding trivialities. So you can be a bitch, as long as you’re tanned, manicured and coiffed while doing it!

From the obvious choice of designer Vera Wang for Liv's wedding dress to the sentimental blue hairpin they picked up at the Plaza all those years ago, every wedding cliché is milked for all it's arbitrary worth. While their sabotage efforts are indeed hilarious, gags aren’t enough to make this a movie you’ll hire ten years from now when taking a trip down chick flick memory lane with your gal pals.

If this is the way wedding movies are going to continue, I’d like to speak now and never hold my peace.