It's said that even the sweetest-tempered of women can become a little crazy when it comes to planning their weddings.
In Bride Wars, Emma (Anne Hathaway), a primary school teacher, and Liv (Kate Hudson), a lawyer, have imagined being each other's bridesmaids since they were tiny. But when New York's most sought-after wedding planner makes a colossal blunder and books both of their nuptials on the same day, the best friends turn into Bridezillas.
The plot follows a fairly predictable chick-flick route. Emma is the underdog of the pair, always looking out for others, but never herself. When she gets engaged before her friend, the competitive Liv near-forces her boyfriend to propose so she can better Emma's wedding.
What follows is a sequence of events chronicling the extreme lengths to which the former soul mates go to try to upstage and undo the other. As expected, there's a bit of a twist and everything ends happily ever after.
Bride Wars is a perfectly watchable movie, but it could have been better. While Hathaway is excellent as a downtrodden girl who realises her worth, Hudson looks like she's 'acting' throughout. And the end-credits montage of flashback photos makes the producers look cheap, not creative.