27 Dresses (Widescreen Edition)

27 Dresses (Widescreen Edition)
by Anne Fletcher

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

DVD Reviews of 27 Dresses (Widescreen Edition)

DVD Review: Great LOVE story!
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is awesome! Every woman who has dreamed of that perfect love and perfect wedding needs to see this movie! Heigl and Marsden performed wonderfully together. Almost like Burns and Allen or Hudson and Day, awesome chemistry on film.

DVD Review: Recommended to all who like chick flicks.
Summary: 4 Stars

Watching "27 Dresses" was like watching an old screwball comedy from the 1940s, but updated for the 21st Century with "adult" situations and language, and the excesses of the modern bridal industry. Although I'm much closer to the bride's mother demographic, than a traditional age bride, I found this movie fun and pleasant to watch, albeit predictable. Even the "surprise" plot twists and misunderstandings were predictable for any adult who has been watching movies more than a year or two. Still the plot twists were more satisfying than if the movie progressed the way the director thought the audience thought it would.

Katherine Heigl was totally believable as the too nice, overly indulgent bridesmaid and perfect doormat assistant to her boss at work. (Although certain plot aspects, such as her running back and forth across town all night to be in two weddings at the same time are not.) You just know that someone this nice is going to crack, particularly when her boss whom she's had a crush on for years is about to marry her spoiled, self-absorbed sister. IMO, this is the part of the movie most worth watching. With great acting from all the actors, good writing, and a parade of amusing bridemaids outfits, I recommend this movie to all who like chick flicks.

I subtracted a star because the movie was so predictable, and was so slow-moving that it occasionally got boring.

DVD Review: 27 Dresses
Summary: 5 Stars

This is one of the better romantic comedy's! My husband even enjoyed it. So grab the popcorn, a few girl friends, or husband and watch this delightful film.

DVD Review: I love it!!
Summary: 5 Stars

What a great way of making fun of the old saying "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride." This in one that I have watched over and over again and will continue to do so.

DVD Review: Always a bridesmaid and never a bride
Summary: 4 Stars

At the age of eight, Jane (Katherine Heigl) realized her calling. Being very helpful at a wedding, she realized that she was fascinated with being an integral part of weddings. We meet her as she is functioning as a bridesmaid at two different weddings on the same night. That night she also stumbles upon a writer. However, what she does not know is that this writer who seems very cynical is actually the one that writes articles that she collects about weddings.

You can see how everything is being set up for a formula movie. The producers tried to give the characters more depth than most of these formula movies where there is always a love triangle of some sort. And of course, the writer has to put his foot into it somewhere right at the most inopportune time we know this is coming. However, the thing that makes the movie fascinating is how they get from point A to point Z, and all the people and points in between.

So enjoy the movie and enjoyed the quirkiness of seeing 27 dresses but do not expect anything extraordinary.

I saw the Blu-Ray version; by now, of course Blu-Ray is blas?. So there isn't anything exceptional to say about this and the movie extras are goodies are the standard how did we make this why did we make this what did we do type things which gives a little bit of insight but not enough to make the movie any more interesting.

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Description of 27 Dresses (Widescreen Edition)

Katherine Heigl (Knocked up, TV's Grey's Anatomy) lights up the screen in this charming romantic comedy from the screenwriter of The Devil Wears Prada." Heigl stars as Jane, a romantic, completely selfless woman who has been a bridesmaid in no less than 27 weddings. Unfortunately her own happy ending seems to be nowhere in sight. Until her younger sister Tess captures the heart of Jane's boss -- on whom Jane has a secret crush inspiring Jane to change her "always-a-bridesmaid" destiny.

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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