Bride Wars (DVD, 2009, Checkpoint; Sensormatic; Widescreen)

As always, Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson are good actors, but I was disappointed by this film. The ladies play lifelong best friends who have always dreamed of being married at the Plaza and being each others' maid of honor. When the wedding planner messes up and books their weddings on the same day at the same time, I found the resulting evil tricks they play on each other in hopes of getting the other to change her wedding date to be immature, cruel, and more sad than amusing. Hudson's character is a lawyer; you'd think she could successfully sue the wedding planner. Someone proposes the idea of a double wedding, but Hudson dismisses it without giving a logical reason, which leaves the impression she is too selfish to share the spotlight. It is also unbelievable that Hathaway would run down the aisle at Hudson's wedding and wrestle her to the ground, no matter what Hudson has done. If this is the way best friends behave, I'll take my chances with my worst enemies! The smarmy commentary at the end, that best friends will stick by you no matter what and are ultimately closer than spouses, feels tacked-on and rings false...after the way these girls turned on each other, who's to say it won't happen again? This was NOT the worst film I've ever seen, but the characters' behavior was too over-the-top for me to feel much sympathy for them.