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.