Romancefest 2018: Bride Wars

Continuing with the "The Wedding Itself is More Important than Who I Marry" genre, we have BRIDE WARS in which Kate Hudson and Anne Hatheway play childhood friends who have dreamed of getting married at New York's Plaza Hotel their entire lives. When the time comes, however, the screenwriter contrives to make them accidentally book the same day, and the wars begin.

Both women go from best friends to selfish monsters as they attempt to destroy each other's upcoming weddings. Hudson plays a high powered attorney who conspires to make Hatheway's fake tan go awry, and Hatheway's an elementary school teacher who conspires to dye Hudson's hair blue and also contribute to her eating problem in the hopes that she will gain weight.

It's sad because these are likable actresses who deserve better movies to be in. Sometimes that happens, but not here. Last year I saw Kate Hudson play a similar monster in HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS, but oddly I think I may have enjoyed that movie more than this one, because at least it was offensively awful and this one's mostly just bland awful.

Spoiler warning: There's a weird subplot that kind of comes out of nowhere where it turns out Hatheway's intended (Chris Pratt before he was a super hero) is not her intended after all, and they break up. Meanwhile, they seemed perfectly fine together and although they had a couple little arguments, it wasn't anything any normal couple couldn't overcome. In fact, if Pratt didn't balk at Hatheway's terrible behavior in this movie, I'd be concerned. Instead, it's a sign he's not the man for Anne.