give it fusion of the sphere of materialistic excess and idealized romantic love and the immense presence of the wedding within popular culture should come a little surprise and be arguably the single most prevalent happy end plot point and often an easy way of concisely suggest a lifetime of resolution and happiness . a such and the treatment of wedding within mainstream film tend to take on a somewhat birfucated approach and either challenge and question the reality of such a romanticized social construction and or relish in the fun and overt sentiment of the sort of wed everyone have be teach to yearn for . with this in mind and bride war become an intriguing example of hollywood prevail treatment of the wedding film subgenre while it premise initially suggest a critique and send up of the lavish excess of popular wedding and the film can ultimately not avoid cave to syrupy cliché and deliver an adore treatment to the social institution it initially promise to challenge . the film a a whole reflect this rocky tonal imbalance and which only serve to expose many of it deeper and more insulting flaw and shortcoming . despite a vaguely absurd sound premise ( two best friend and both engage on the same day and be force to fight for their ideal wedding venue and cause a rift and fight between one another ) and the film retain promise and with ad but true kernel of profundity ( how easily a friendship can be throw to the wind and the common theme of the superficial flashiness of wedding overcome the feeling involve and among others ) which could have result in a satisfactory satire in the hand of a capable director or careful and intricate script . unfortunately and bride war could not be more sorely lack on either front and and a such and the film a a whole quickly descend into be more of a disaster than either protagonist pending wedding and with the rare successful trace of broad satire often undermine by the screen write tendency to cave to easy and sap fraught cliché and plot be damn circumstance and make even it occasional high point feel deflate and redundant . otherwise the film could be use a a textbook example of lazy and sloppy screen write and a checklist of mainstream romance center ( if not outright rom com ) comedy clichés and pound into the audience head through draw out and dreary slapstick lack the necessary acerbic spark to be any sort of funny and and a particularly wearisome array of cathartic emotional speech . if there be a single positive note among the deluge of negative and the film do boast a climactic twist which manage to be slightly unpredictable and vaguely realistic both shock surprise in a film which could not be far from either quality overall . of course and this brief moment of innovation be quickly supersede by yet another sloppy and cliché inundated patch of screen writing and but for a matter of minute and the film hint at the exponentially superior film which might have result from it chaotic and sicken mess . even the musical score be woefully unoriginal and succeed only in make each increasingly banal development all the more difficult to stomach . it be a common practice in many such female gear mainstream comedy to have frustratingly underdeveloped male character and and bride war gleefully carry on such a trait and with the barely glimpsed male figure reduce to cardboard cut out and or pantomime of masculinity which fulfill only a single note of characterisation or narrative function ( the sweet guy and insensitive jock and etc . ) . one scene have kate hudson character lie in bed with her fiancé and express her sorrow at how alone she feel and completely ignore his attempt at console and comfort her while a particularly insulting moment in a film chock full of them and it also demonstrate how utterly unimportant the men in the film be whatsoever . however and a less common genre trait be to have the female character paint in just a superficial and reductionist term a the men in the story and yet bride war prove just as determine to reduce both sex to insult stereotype and include and to a worrisomely large degree and it protagonist . a such and the film only real save grace be the luminous presence of anne hathaway . despite be stick with a tiresomely familiar role ( the overly care woman who forget to look after her own need ) and hathaway refuse to succumb entirely to convention and and instead infuse her character with a spark of gutsy enthusiasm and her seemingly unquenchable trademark charisma and quirky charm the only mercifully palatable element in the film and and clearly a far good piece of act than such a film deserve . unfortunately kate hudson do not match up and make the sympathy of the viewer and intend to be evenly distribute among protagonist and feel substantially one side . while hudson be not a disaster by any mean and she simply appear to float by on autopilot and refuse to devote enough energy and warmth or comedic spark to breath life into her character and and a such come across a somewhat of a selfish and unlikeable miser and a black hole of characterisation . suppose comic relief from candice bergen a an obsessive wedding planner translate instead into only more tiresome drivel and and her contribution of a hilariously out of place narration only far draw to light the ignorant and lazy screen write and a if refuse to simply let the narrative develop on it own . but what be perhaps the most objectionable to bride war be how seemingly inoffensively bland it be and a if the filmmaker and cast could not muster up the energy to be a outlandishly terrible a most other film with as little go for them . a such and bride war be not only resoundingly poor on just about every possible front and but unenthusiastically so and make the film not only cringe worthy to watch and but also rather bore . even fan of the genre in search of light and superficial entertainment be unlikely to derive much enjoyment from such an altogether uninspired and tiresomely predictable piece of cinematic refuse . negative .