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27 Dresses [Blu-ray]

27 Dresses [Blu-ray]
by Anne Fletcher

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Actor: Brian Kerwin, Charli Barcena, James Marsden, Katherine Heigl, Malin Akerman
Director: Anne Fletcher
Brand: Fox
Producer: Becki Cross Trujillo
Producer: Erin Stam
Producer: Gary Barber
Producer: Jonathan Glickman
Producer: Michael Mayer
Producer: Robert F. Newmyer
Writer: Aline Brosh McKenna
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: Cantonese (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-04-29
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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Blu-ray Review: Confessions of a Bridesmaid
Summary: 2 Stars

There have been a lot of contrived romantic comedies before, but "27 Dresses" really takes the cake (and yes, I purposely used a wedding-related phrase). This movie relies on comedy that's nothing like real comedy, conflict that's nothing like real conflict, and characters so annoying and cliché that they don't even fit the traditional definition of caricature. If you've read any of my reviews, then you know I've been kind to many such films; I gave "No Reservations," "Music and Lyrics," and "P.S. I Love You" favorable reviews, not because they represented reality, but because they were entertaining stories founded on the fantasy of happily ever after. "27 Dresses" is not fantastic, and because of that, I could focus on nothing other than how unrealistic it was. At one point, Katherine Heigl says, "I feel like I just found out my favorite love song was written about a sandwich." Dumb, I know, but it does accurately express how I feel about this film.

The story opens in 1986 with a wedding and a voiceover narration. A young girl in attendance finds her true calling after escorting her baby sister to the bathroom: she was meant to not only be a bridesmaid, but also a wedding planner, an organizer, and a general overseer of everything. She comes to this conclusion when her bride-to-be cousin rushes into the dressing room in a panic because the back of her dress tore open. The young girl ingeniously uses her sister's hair ribbon to sew the hole shut, after which she ties it into a pretty little bow. We then flash forward to the present day and learn that the voiceover narration belonged to Jane (Heigl), who's introduced at a New York City bridal boutique, fitting a wedding dress that her friend will be wearing (thank God both women are the same size). Since that fateful day in 1986, she seems to have grown comfortable planning all her friends' weddings, but she has yet to plan one of her own. And thus we discover the driving force of the plot.

As soon as this is established, the audience is made to endure a ridiculous scene in which Jane attends two weddings on the same night--she has a cab drive her back and forth numerous times, and she changes dresses during each trip (she offers the driver five hundred dollars for the whole night if he promises to not look at his rear view mirror; by the end of the night, she gives him a mere hundred and sixty, as each glance was an automatic twenty-dollar deduction). At one of the weddings, she meets Kevin (James Marsden), who immediately comes off as a charming, witty, and cynical wedding-hater. Little does Jane know that Kevin writes wedding articles under the alias Malcolm, articles that she absolutely adores.

Meanwhile, Jane's sister, Tess (Malin Akerman) has returned to New York after six months in Europe. Young, perky, and platinum blonde, Tess is ready to look for a new man. And she finds one: Jane's boss, George (Edward Burns). If it weren't for the fact that Jane is secretly in love with George, this wouldn't be a problem--in no time at all, Tess lies her way into a marriage proposal, meaning that Jane has yet another wedding to plan. But how can she knowing her sister is as phony as a three-dollar bill? I'll tell you why: Jane is just as phony. She hides her feelings behind a façade of smiles and laughter, and she's completely incapable of saying no to anyone. What's worse is that Kevin has been personally hired by Tess to cover the wedding, and Jane finally learns that his beautifully written articles don't express how he truly feels. He believes that weddings are a sham, from the hordes of useless gifts to the expensive planning. He writes the articles only to work his way up in the world of journalism, and lo and behold, he sees a story opportunity with Jane, the constant bridesmaid with a closet full of ugly dresses. So we basically have a film filled with phonies, which I guess is fitting, considering the nature of the plot.

But that isn't good enough, since it's blatantly required that the two fall in love, then break up, then fall in love again. There's no question that their relationship is predictable--the relationships in romantic comedies are always predictable. The problems stem not from their romance, but from their fake personalities, which to me were like fingernails on a chalkboard. I didn't believe these characters for one second, and this is in spite of the meaningless side characters that function as comedy relief. One such example is Casey (Judy Greer), Jane's best friend. Why they're friends, I have no idea; Casey is obnoxious, intrusive, and just generally grating. It's sad that she's probably the most honest character in the entire film, especially since her wisecracks aren't even close to funny.

It basically boils down to Jane's growing resentment against Tess, Kevin's excuses to enter Jane's life, and a convenient set of circumstances that convince Jane to lead her own life for once. This dime-a-dozen story is not what makes "27 Dresses" so bad; it's the way this dime-a-dozen story is told. Here's a film that tries so hard to be touching and comedic that it ends up failing at both. It's painful to see Katherine Heigl and James Marsden--both capable actors--stuck in something so preposterous, so contrived, and so forced. What do I mean by "forced"? When Jane first sees Tess and George together at a club, she runs out the back door, screams a curse, and begins banging a wall with her handbag. She then turns around and realizes she's in a room where a fiftieth anniversary party is being held. If there's one thing I hate, it's when comedy like this is shoved into our faces.

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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 09/30/2008 Run time: 105 minutes Rating: Pg13

Katherine Heigl is delightful as Jane, a self-effacing Gal Friday so addicted to organizing weddings in her off time, that 27 Dresses opens with her character juggling two nuptials on the same night. A perpetual bridesmaid, Jane?s hobby is discovered by a matrimony reporter named Kevin (James Marsden), who hides a romantic side behind his wall of cynicism. While Kevin gradually develops feelings for Jane, the latter?s superficial sister, Tess (Malin Akerman), pursues George (Edward Burns), Jane?s boss and the object of her love. This romantic circle could go on forever, except that Jane is unexpectedly moved by Kevin despite her general irritation with him and without knowing that he?s on the verge of sandbagging her with a ridiculing article in his newspaper. The situation is absurd, but the emotions are not. Heigl is very good, rooted in a long tradition of comely comediennes playing characters who fly under the radar of life. She makes Jane?s pain palpable and conveys her character?s inability to say no without making her look unappealing or weak. Marsden perfectly captures the part of a rumpled, underdressed writer with repressed passions, Akerman is as convincingly shrewish here as she was in The Heartbreak Kid, and Burns is fine as one of those guys so busy saving the world he barely pays attention to the people in his life. The script by Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada) is fun if predictable, and Anne Fletcher?s direction is vibrant. --Tom Keogh

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