Charm and sexy realness are nowhere to be found in 27 Dresses, which, despite being destined to failure by being a romcom all about a desperate girl's quest to be married (for fuck's sake), stars Katherine Heigl. How could anyone obliterate that star power?
The complete and utter lack of chemistry between her and James Marsden might be what some people blame, but the real reason this film fails is because of the ineptitude of its premise. Heigl plays Jane, doormat assistant to a bigwig environmentalist (are there such things?) for whom she has buckets of unrequited love. One day her dazzling, seven-foot-tall sister (a really annoying Malin Akerman) swoops into town and "steals" Jane's boss's heart. Jane, who has no life but to serve others, finds herself organizing their wedding - a hobby of hers since the first wedding she went to at 12. In fact, she's so obsessed with weddings that she keeps clippings from the newspaper's wedding page, has been a bridesmaid 27 times, and makes sure
Marsden brings a glimpse of hope early on when he's posited as a cynical bastard, i.e., normal person, who hates the sham of big bullshit weddings. But before long this sole interesting character trait - in the whole film, I'm talking, not just in this character - dissipates and what we're left with is 107 long minutes of insulting, sexist, predictable, morally offensive schlock that made me want to jump off this planet for shame of sharing it with anyone who may find this cute.
27 Dresses
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