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27 Dresses
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Katherine Heigl, James Marsden,
Malin Akerman, Judy Greer, Edward Burns |
| MPAA Rated: |
PG-13 |
| Released By: |
Fox 2000
Pictures |
| Web Site: |
www.27dressesthemovie.com |
| Kiddie Movie: |
The girls might
like the frilly dresses but the boys will hate you forever. |
| Date Movie: |
It's really a
dudette night out flick. |
| Gratuitous Sex: |
There's some
getting it on but no nudity. |
| Gratuitous
Violence: |
Nah. |
| Action: |
Nope. |
| Laughs: |
Probably more for
the ladies. |
| Memorable
Scene: |
In the bar singing
"Benny and the Jets." |
| Memorable
Quote: |
"That selfish
whore." |
| Directed By: |
Anne Fletcher |
| Produced By: |
Roger Birnbaum,
Gary Barber, Jonathan Glickman |
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27 Dresses
A Movie Review |
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I'm still trying to figure out what went wrong. See, there I am,
waiting for the trailers to start, munching on a giant
pretzel, when three hot dudettes walk in with no rings on
that special finger. It’s single ladies morning out!
This might be it, my dream of picking up women in the movie
theater. One, I’m sitting by myself at the movie "27 Dresses";
Two,
I’ve got on my raggedy, white sweatshirt; Three, I haven’t
shaved in two days; and four, this morning, when I woke up,
resigned to the sweatshirt and not shaving, well, there was
no extra effort made to make my hair look nice either. It
must have taken all that they had not to just jump me right
there in the theater, or maybe they were lesbians. In
any case I was still sitting by myself, watching the movie.
Anyway, as far as "27 Dresses," if you saw the trailer
you pretty much saw the movie, and trust me, there are no
surprises at all in the movie. Kathering Heigl plays Jane.
All of her life she has been the perfect bridesmaid, able to
organize every wedding to perfection, even able to juggle
two weddings going on at the same time. She’s in love with
her boss, George (Edward Burns), but can never muster the
nerve to let him know about her feelings and when she
finally does get the nerve, well, enter Jane’s sister, Tess
(Malin Akerman). Of course George and Tess hit it off, and
now Jane is planning Tess’ wedding to the man that she is in
love with. But enter Kevin (James Marsden). He’s a writer
for the society section of the newspaper, reporting on
weddings, and after finding Jane’s calendar book realizes
there is an interesting story about her.
Yea, you can already guess a bunch of things, namely that
Kevin and Jane are meant to hook up, Jane realizes George
isn’t the man for her, Tess is a bitch, and everyone lives
happily ever after.
Look, "27 Dresses" is a cookie-cutter movie about the
wedding thing, about the girl looking for her true love, and
dudes, do yourself a favor by letting your dudettes have a
dudette night out when she wants to see this movie. I can
get sucked into many a romantic comedy, and as great as
Katherine Heigl is in her role of Jane, this movie has
absolutely no testosterone quotient, even with Malin Akerman
wearing low-cut tops. Sure, I did chuckle at some moments,
but this movie is really one for the ladies.
For dudettes the movie is probably 4 stars out of 5, for
dudes it’s more like 1 star out of 5. Average them together
gives the movie 2 ½ stars out of 5, but for Katherine Heigl
doing a great job in her leading role, and the spitfire
nature of her friend and co-worker, Casey (Judy Greer), I’ll
add ½ star giving "27 Dresses" 3 stars out of 5.
The movie doesn’t try to trick you into anything it
isn’t, so I suppose going in you will get everything you
expect, even a nice montage of Jane trying on her 27
bridesmaid’s dresses. Katherine Heigl, though, deserves
more than a cookie-cutter wedding movie.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!!
L8R!!! |
