Metacritic reviews

Bride Wars pretends to be a satire of wedding mania, but since there's virtually nothing else to the movie, the satire comes depressingly close to endorsement.

Bride Wars is pretty thin soup. The characters have no depth or personality, no quirks or complications, no conversation.

A step backward for Hathaway, Bride Wars is one more step into the quicksand for Hudson, who's spent the nine years since ""Almost Famous wandering the rom-com wasteland in search of an exit strategy; this movie, which she exec produced, ain't it.

A dopey if largely painless romantic comedy.

Bride Wars really does not capture the mood of the moment. It comes from a different time, a different planet.

Like moussed hair and inverted-pyramid shoulder pads, this sloppy, sloppy slapstick is an artifact from the 1980s.

A shrill, mechanical comedy.

A girlie romantic comedy with tired slapstick pranks but not an ounce of self-respect or intelligence.

Predictable, lazy and as overprocessed as Kate Hudson's hair, this thoroughly joyless movie also possesses a deep nasty streak, making it loathsome when it might have been merely annoying.

The first big-studio movie released in 2009 has a damn fine chance of being the worst. Bride Wars isn't just chick-flick hell for guys, it should numb the skulls of moviegoers of all sexes and ages.