Bride Wars 3 Disc Blu-ray Edition
Bride Wars takes best friends and turns them into bitter competitors to get the wedding of their dreams only to have them realize that they both only want to be friends.
Film making 10/25
Cinematography 15/25
Audio 20/25
Bonus Features 5/25
Total 50/100
Bride Wars stars Kate Hudson as Liv and Anne Hathaway as Emma, best friends since childhood that dream of the perfect wedding and almost get it. Both Emma and Liv want the perfect wedding at the most expensive and luxurious hotel in New York with all the trappings.
They have dreamed about their wedding and when Liv thinks her boyfriend is going to pop the question she tells all her friends. Thing is he hasn’t asked her yet but Emma has a surprise for her, she is getting married so Liv confronts her boyfriend and he tells Liv that he was going to propose after all.
Both Liv and Emma go to the best wedding planner in New York to get the best for their weddings and a mix up with the wedding planner ends up with both weddings at the same time. While they both want to go to each other’s wedding they have dreamed about the day they get married at the Plaza and cannot get any openings for years except the same day.
When they both decide they are going to have their wedding in spite of missing the others they spend the rest of the movie feuding and sabotaging the others grand event. Sneaking into the others preparations and coloring hair blue and turning a light tan into a deep orange is just some of the things these bridezilla’s do to each other.
Friends of both women don’t understand why they are so out to get the other and end up joking about which wedding or reception they are going to attend. Their fiancé’s don’t understand about their feud as they are more interested in just getting on with things and not the consuming fight.
Emma attacks Liv as she walks up the aisle after Liv switched DVD’s of a recording from a past party where Emma was whooping it up instead of the montage that Emma had planned to show as she walked up the aisle. Both girls fight in front of the guests and the grooms both stand and watch them go at it because they are sick of the feud.
Emma confesses to her groom that she does not really want to get married to him, she just wanted to get married and had just been holding on to her boyfriend for that. He understands when she explains that they have really grown apart and Emma ends up walking Liv down the aisle.
The movie thankfully ends with Emma marrying Liv’s brother and they laugh and joke about it, not very funny but an appropriate end to a much overhyped movie. I have to say I was really disappointed in Bride Wars and understand the movies bad ratings.
This film was hyped a lot and all the scenes that really make the film funny, not many, are seen in the previews and theatrical trailers. Every laugh and funny moment like the blue hair and orange tan are shown in the previews so there really is not much left after you have seen the previews.
Bride Wars is a film made from all those bridezilla stories taken to their logical conclusion when two friends can’t be grownups and do the right thing. The whole premise that the two women, really acting more like kids, can’t get what they want in their wedding location so they ruin their friendship is ridiculous.
The film is not that great and actually a disappointment after all the previews and hype surrounding the theatrical release. I guess what you see is really what you get in some cases and this film really does have nothing more than what you see in the previews.
The 3 Disc Blu-ray edition does include several bonus features and one that is unique and fun but in a film that is not worth purchasing much less renting it is kind of redundant. The 3 Disc set includes a Blu-ray disc, a DVD version and the digital copy for computer or other mobile device with most of the bonus content on the Blu-ray.
The Blu-ray edition has a nice price tag popup track that shows the running cost of the weddings when they shop or get the costs of things during the film. This is the kind of additional features that make Blu-ray worthwhile but not in this case, not much can help this film.
The Blu-ray also has deleted scenes, a sort of gag reel, a couple of making of features, an interview with both Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway and more. The making of features are your typical features included in films and the interviews are from the Fox Movie Channel with the two stars of Bride Wars.
The bonus content is alright but when the film is not that good and even not worth renting so the bonus you do get doesn’t mean anything. Bride Wars is not all that funny and not all that original so there really is not much reason to bother with it.