Let's Write Bride Wars
Watching True Beauty on Monday night, I was somewhat surprised (read: angered) by the number of commercials for Bride Wars, which opens on Friday. There were at least three commercials for the movie within a 60 minute period, possibly more but I was in and out of consciousness, so the viewing experience was essentially: Bride Wars commercial, Vanessa Minillo's dead eyes, Bride Wars commercial, Vanessa Minillo judges "scientific beauty" with her dead eyes, Bride Wars commercial, Vanessa Minillo tells someone she lacks sufficient inner beauty and turns her dead eyed gaze on the camera, two "janitors" put a framed portrait in a garbage can.
According to these plentiful commercials, Bride Wars——not to be confused with war brides, which are brides married during wartime, or bridle wars, which are wars fought in stables——is a movie about two best friends, Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway (the brides), who turn zany insane when their weddings are scheduled for the same day, leading to a series of wacky pranks (the titular "wars"). How wacky? Well, pretty obvious, paint-by-numbers movie wacky:
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(Do you think Kate Hudson's second "It's blue!" reaction to her highlights snafu was scripted? I bet it just said "[Kate ad libs horrified reaction]" and "My hair's blue! It's blue!" was all she came up with.)