Frothy and frivolous

SILLY FILM : Bride Wars.

Bride Wars

Genre: Chick flick
Director: Gary Winick
Cast: Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway and Candice Bergen
Storyline: Best friends turn foes over the perfect wedding location
Bottomline: A-listers cannot save this inedible confection

This film, like all those other silly inconsequential ones, is guaranteed to give chick flicks a bad name.

`Bride Wars' is as shrieky, busy, talky as `Confessions of a Shopaholic,' `Sex and the City,' `He's Just Not That Into You,' `27 Dresses' and countless others. What are these two gorgeous women and wonderful actors, Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, doing in a wretched film like this? Here they play best friends, Liv and Emma, who have been dreaming of their wedding day in New York's Plaza Hotel since they were little girls.

Due to an error, both weddings are scheduled the same day. The best friends turn bitter enemies, all hell breaks lose till D-Day when Emma and Liv, all gorgeous in their bridal best, suddenly realise the error of their ways.

Talents wasted

The movie is grating, irritating and not in the least funny. Kate Hudson has incredible comic timing and to see her wasted in this sicklysweet confection is as much a crime as seeing Hathaway making funny faces as schoolteacher Emma.

There are a lot of designer clothes, saccharine, sweet pop songs, glitter, lace and Vera Wang. The men simply stand around mumbling things while Candice Bergen, who has turned into the patron saint of all things pink and girlie, provides a portentous voice over as the wedding planner. If ever there was an avoidable movie, it is this.

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