First Thing Women Want

“Hotshots” looks at a movie!

Bride Wars - Movie PosterBRIDE WARS is a silly chick flick that is NOT a romantic comedy, just a comedy.

However, the only people laughing in the audience when I attended were women, and some of them were laughing hysterically. (No pun intended.)

Starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, the story is about two best friends from childhood for the past 20 years who have been inseparable ever since they saw a wedding together at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.

So, all their lives they have dreamed and planned to have their own weddings at the Plaza and that each of them would be the maid of honor for the other one.

And then the complications ensue.

They both get engaged at about the same time, and so they meet together with Marion St. Claire, the most sought-after wedding planner in Manhattan, played by Candice Bergen.

Earlier, they had criticized a wedding, one of them saying, “It ain’t June,” and the other one adding, “And it ain’t the Plaza.”

So, they settle on two of the only three available dates in June, which is 3-1/2 months away, and here is where the complications ensue.

Marion’s assistant mistakenly books them both on the same date, and let the forced comedy for women begin.

I know what you’re thinking: “Are there any men in this movie?”

Yes, there are. Two fiances, a brother, and an assistant, but except for the assistant, the men are so nondescript that you can’t even tall them apart, and they have almost no role in the story.

And any men in the audience will start losing interest when the two women start fighting with each other. You see, guys would just split the check down the middle, have two separate weddings, order pizzas, and turn on the ball game.

Now, men would ask what is so funny about two brides fighting. Or sympathetic about their making up?

But then the movie isn’t over when you think it’s over. We get an added scene that is a ho-hum setup for a sequel.

BRIDE WARS is a chick flick times 2 that is apparently all about the first thing women want, which in the end might not be anything more than leading to a sequel that would be a chick flick times 4 about the second thing women want and named BABY WARS.

I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”