“27 Dresses” isn’t your average, run-of-the-mill love story.
First off, those usually bore and depress me. However, Katherine Heigl made me laugh and even cry a little in this witty contemporary romance about a woman who constantly shares in the vows of love and yet can never take them herself.
Life isn’t perfect and neither is love, we all know this, that is if you live in the real world.
In the theatrical, make-believe stereotypical love story, however (which Hollywood has based its very existence on) love is perfect and unadulterated.
I was expecting this needless to say when I walked into the theatre. I was prepared to vomit when I went to see “27 Dresses” and I walked out smiling.
The movie opens with Heigl (Jane) hailing a cab with two different bridesmaid dresses in tow.
She debuts as maid of honor at two different weddings in the same night. You think it’d be impossible but Heigl pulls it off.
She meets Malcolm (James Marsden, known most notably for his role of Cyclops in “X-Men”) while ungracefully attempting to catch a bouquet.
Marsden is a writer for a wedding column in a magazine and meets Heigl, sweet and oblivious, caught up in her wedding bell blues.
He decides to use her for a story.
Jane is a complete mess at first. She is in love with George (Edward Burns), but as usual, he fails to notice her (typical male).
He does however notice her blonde and adorable younger sister, Tess (Malin Akerman) and falls in love. He proposes to Tess and the emotional roller coaster of Jane’s life takes a stomach-unsettling turn.
All the while Marsden is there, ready to publicize Jane’s twisted web of a life and eventually becomes a part of it.
The movie is like “Pretty Woman” meets “Never Been Kissed.”
You can’t really go wrong with a movie that involves a young, beautiful, hopeless diamond in the rough morphing into a mature, refined, worldly woman in the end.
It’s simply classic; our fascination with beauty and transforming revelation will never die. Hollywood legends like Audrey Hepburn started the caricature in early movies like “Sabrina,” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”
Granted Heigl stands in the shadow of some stars, she is remarkably quirky and subsequently endearing in this film. Marsden shines as well, with his cynical yet adorable personality.
Forget your date. Gather a bunch of your lady friends and go treat yourself. You’ll leave a little happier guaranteed.

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