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Bookmark this page27 Dresses (2008)
Director: Anne Fletcher
Movie review
From Time Out London
Hollywood’s latest wedding-themed romantic comedy opens with Jane (Katherine Heigl) dashing between multiple ceremonies in one day, changing into different bridesmaid’s outfits in a New York cab (she’s lucky no one opted for a destination wedding). It’s probably no coincidence that this recalls the mad dash at the beginning of ‘Four Weddings…’. Like Hugh Grant’s Charles, Jane seems destined to attend all her friends’ weddings without ever getting hitched herself. A crush on her boss George (Edward Burns) could be the problem – especially as he’s more keen on her sister (Malin Akerman).
And so downtrodden Jane is doomed to play bridesmaid at the wedding of the man she loves. Or thinks she does – the love triangle doesn’t end there. Enter James Marsden as journalist Kevin, who writes a newspaper wedding column and is desperate for a juicy story about, say, a girl who’s been a bridesmaid 27 times. As Kevin befriends Jane and takes advantage of her distress about George, his duplicitousness is less than beguiling, and yet he’s still clearly in the running for the Mr Right contest.
It’s no compelling love story – Jane seems stuck between a rock and a hard place. But the film hops along merrily enough thanks to an engaging turn from Heigl, who’s nailed the unusually-pretty-girl-next-door act while embracing physical and risqué comedy (Cameron Diaz comparisons abound). Judy Greer provides amusing support as the man-eating sibling. But while the humour’s irreverent and likeable, this is no match for Heigl’s last comedy, ‘Knocked Up’. It’s official: a pregnancy is funnier than a wedding these days – on the big screen anyway.
Author: Anna Smith
Time Out London Issue 1962 March 27 - April 2
User reviews of this film
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- John Cooper said...
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Posted on Jun 07 2011 00:35
The Time Out review gets it right with this one . `.hops along merrily .` . . yes . . . that's about it . . . but it stood
up to a second viewing which says something about
a sharp script which is given every chance by the principals . . especially Katherine Heigl. Of course it
keeps to the American formula for commercial rom-com..
ie . . . they hate each other in the opening reel, and
they realize they love each other in the final reel, and
this realization is given a public declaration . . . and everyone claps . . .And then there's the obligatory open-air wedding . . . ( The weather's always bettter in American films ) So, not bad . . . doesn't get anywhere
near a really classy film like `Notting Hill` . . . but if you
see the DVD in a charity shop for £3 . .it's a reasonable deal . . . Probably one for the girls . . . as the male characters are not given any psychological or philosphical depth and are essentially `idealized` versions of what women see as `marriage material.` - Report as inappropriate
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- Syl said...
- Posted on Jul 05 2008 15:50 well, it doesn't suck that bad. there are a few scenes that makes you smile or even laugh. give the cast some credit, they made a pretty decent movie here. :)
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- ellie said...
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Posted on May 05 2008 17:49
The most predictable pile of sappy poop I have seen in a long time!
Kinda amusing in parts, but ou know exactly whats going to happen within the first ten minutes of the film! - Report as inappropriate
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- chloe said...
- Posted on Apr 26 2008 10:59 going to see this today, i think it looks quite good tbh =D
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- Abi said...
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Posted on Apr 25 2008 21:45
This Film Was Quite Predictable In Strange Ways...I Wont Give Away The Story Just Incase You Haven't Yet Seen It But I Loved It! It Was Really Funny And Girly Yet Suitable For Men. The Ending Was Very Entertaining-
A Must See!!!! - Report as inappropriate
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- bob said...
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Posted on Apr 24 2008 10:48
The film was aweome...
I think - Report as inappropriate
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- Milly said...
- Posted on Apr 23 2008 20:43 woo neva seen this film hehe but i thought i'd comment any way!!!!!!!!!! woo!!!! <3 u all xx
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- ben said...
- Posted on Apr 23 2008 20:42 hehe
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- who da ya think said...
- Posted on Apr 23 2008 19:20 much better than son of rambow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- Gem said...
- Posted on Apr 18 2008 11:54 This film was sooo bad and pradictable.......but I absolutely LOVED IT!!!!! It certainly won't be going in to my all time classic faves, but it made me giggle at its silliness. It has nothing politically useful to say or contained any deep, thought-provoking messages but it provided me with a little escapism, which is sometimes nice after a hard-days work when you need to chill!
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- Oly24 said...
- Posted on Apr 16 2008 13:01 Predictable dribble, in an un-original format. The worst film i have seen for a while, but my girlfriend though it was okay. P.S. i don't hate all chick-flicks, just this one and that one with reece witherspoon as a ghost
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- naila said...
- Posted on Apr 15 2008 11:57 i am algerian women when i saw this film i realy love itttttttttt thunk you
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- jan said...
- Posted on Apr 14 2008 20:19 i saw this film last week it was really good 10 out of 10
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- janice said...
- Posted on Apr 14 2008 20:17 i saw this film last week it was great 10 out of 10
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- usman khawaja said...
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Posted on Apr 14 2008 16:24
JANE UNDONE BY 2 TARZANS
It is relly pathetic to see how awful american leading men have become as they cannot even support an ocassional good actress when she happens to stumble into the vulgarity of american cinema,and indeed heigl is a gem but both kevin and george are listless ,entirely devoid of a persona ,male puppies who definitely deserve not to add to the miseries of human race by procreating with even tess ,another bimbo wandering in this brainless script in the annals of manhattan .
jane loves george who loves tess and tess loves hamburgers and everyone loves kevin except jane ,but the catch is kevin loves jane.
this is the greek master comedy ala aritophanes , inspired from shakespeare or whoever was writing it on toilet paper in hollywood and then forgot to flush it down the drain .peadiatric gags and senile dialogues make up the first half ,when tess as the protected little sister, returns as a super-trash model from MILAN[yes the european fashion capital ] ,she wears the worst YELLOW SEQUINED DRESS i have ever seen and even a street walker in montparnasse or montmartre will not be caught dead in it -let alone milan ,yet she falls or rather george falls for her in a moronic love at first sight sequence .
heigl is 30 something but behaves like a teen in love with her boss-played by the awful marsden - and the best scene is where she is slapped by her best friend ,who like me could not decipher why she liked that average ,fat rugby type non-actor with an infuriating voice .
but wait tess is the worst prototype of marilyn-godie hawn blonde bimbos ,but even she is better then kevin ,our knight in shining armour who discovers and rescues both heigls leggy beauty and her 27 trashy dresses which were better then the slutty yellow dress tess wore ,
there are more then 27 reasons not to see this trash ,but only one to go for it and one is jane-heigl ,who is superb and please can she sign a good script,she called aptow a chauvinist for portraying her as a female shrew in KNOCKED UP,sorry heigl you are a desirable female but please stop being manipulative and uptight for you will make it but you need better leading men then these and you need to read the script before you sign on,
i really was disgusted when she shagged kevin in a cheap second hand car in the middle of nowhere after a seriously bad songover karioke in the throes of alcohol , that just showed how bankrupt the script writer was ,but the final slide show which looked like tess was a monster come out of cloverfield with her eurotrash friends,steak smeared oral cavity and dog hater monster was totally over the top
subtlety is indeed dead as is tastefulness in american cinema.heigl please wake up baby ,you are not american trash and stop being part of that unlimited waste dump .
she has a quality about her like natalie portman,ricci and keri from waitress ,still way to go before she becomes a kate hudson or a diaz - Report as inappropriate
Cast & crew
Director: Anne Fletcher
Cast: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Edward Burns, Malin Akerman, Judy Greer, Randy Edelman, Peter James full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Rated: 12A
Duration: 111 mins
UK Release: Mar 27 2008
US Release: Jan 18 2008
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