Bride Wars - Best Enemies

What weddings can mean to women, men will probably never really understand. Especially in the USA, women seem to think of nothing else from childhood but to stand in front of the altar all in white one day. For Liv and Emma, the two main characters in the new comedy "Bride Wars - Best Enemies", the wedding is the most beautiful and important event in their lives. Too bad that of all things it comes to a very unpleasant mishap.

However, everything was perfectly planned. Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) were going to get married at the beautiful Plaza, both just a few weeks apart, as they had wanted for years. But then the friends find out that their weddings fall on the same day due to a booking error. This, of course, is a no-go. In order to guarantee the perfect wedding, one of the two women would have to back out of the date and thus forgo getting married at the Plaza. But neither perfectionist Liv, nor good-natured Emma, who has sacrificed herself for everyone so far, is willing to make that sacrifice. And so a crude catfight soon begins between the once best friends, with both women seemingly willing to go to extremes...

Director Gary Winick, who scored a minor respectable hit with the comedy "30 over night", moves into fairly well-trodden territory here. All wedding and gender clichés are served here. The fact that the women are constantly loud and shrill and have to screech wildly at every opportunity simply cannot and must not correspond to reality. In addition, the gags are all too predictable to ignite. The two main actresses may have a lot of charm and talent, but the script rarely gives them the opportunity to show these qualities to their full potential.

But maybe you shouldn't expect too much depth and originality from a casual wedding comedy like this. More important is the question of whether the target audience inclined to this genre, which is likely to consist primarily of young women, will be well entertained. And here the answer is - at least for long stretches - yes! Even if the whole action is a bit too loud and hectic and a very high recognition value hovers over everything, the fight between the two brides-to-be remains entertaining and amusing enough in enough moments to justify a visit to the cinema - provided, of course, there is a certain weakness for loose US comedies. And then, but only then, the following applies: well worth seeing with reservations!

Original title: Bride Wars

Directed by Gary Winick

Length: approx. 90 min.

FSK: o.Al.

An article by Frankfurt-Tipp