I am a hopeless romantic. I adore a good chick flick and cannot get enough of romantic comedies. So when I first heard about 27 Dresses coming to theaters, I was more than excited for another movie about losing and finding love with a few good looking men thrown in for kicks to hit the big screen. To say the least, I was a little disappointed.
27 Dresses is about a woman named Jane, portrayed by Katherine Heigel, a selfless girl who has been the maid of honor 27 times. Everything in Jane’s life seems to be going great, working with her hunky boss, George (Edward Burns) by day and reading the Weddings section of the newspaper by favorite reporter, Malcom (James Marsden) by night. Everything is fine until her beloved little sister Tess (Malin Akerman) comes to town. Tess quickly wins the heart of George, whom Jane secretly has had a long standing crush on, (surprise) and not to long after meeting, the two are to be wed and (surprise) again, Jane is asked to be the maid of honor.
By Chelsea Oliver,
Sports Editor
I am a hopeless romantic. I adore a good chick flick and cannot get enough of romantic comedies. So when I first heard about 27 Dresses coming to theaters, I was more than excited for another movie about losing and finding love with a few good looking men thrown in for kicks to hit the big screen. To say the least, I was a little disappointed.
27 Dresses is about a woman named Jane, portrayed by Katherine Heigel, a selfless girl who has been the maid of honor 27 times. Everything in Jane’s life seems to be going great, working with her hunky boss, George (Edward Burns) by day and reading the Weddings section of the newspaper by favorite reporter, Malcom (James Marsden) by night. Everything is fine until her beloved little sister Tess (Malin Akerman) comes to town. Tess quickly wins the heart of George, whom Jane secretly has had a long standing crush on, (surprise) and not to long after meeting, the two are to be wed and (surprise) again, Jane is asked to be the maid of honor.
As Jane plans the wedding, Malcom follows her around saying that he would like to feature Tess and George’s wedding in his section. Though Jane is still upset over the wedding and too heartbroken to think about other men, Malcom becomes infatuated with Jane, though she continually tells him she has no interest in him. The most humorous and one of the only humorous times of the movie is when Jane and Malcom get stranded one rainy night, end up drunk and singing Billy Joel in a bar, and then sharing a passionate night together in Jane’s car, only to see that the morning paper holds an article by Malcom, not about the upcoming wedding, but about Jane, the bridesmaid, never the bride.
To make the 1hr and 47mins that seems like 3 hours short, Jane yells at Malcom, Jane catches Tess in some lies, Jane tells George lies, George and Tess break up, Tess yells at Jane but then have a sisterly heart-to-heart, Jane kisses George, but (surprise) neither likes it. Not to worry though, the movie does end with Jane in a white dress.
Though this was a hopeless romantic movie filled with losing and finding love and involved a couple of cute guys, the laughs were too few and too far between to be considered a romantic comedy. The story simply takes too long to tell. Maybe if there were only 10 dresses it would have worked out better. But girls, if you are dateless on Valentines Day, grab some single friends, buy the jumbo popcorn to share, and sit in the back of the theater so you can all predict what will happen next, if nothing else, you can always drool over Marsden’s good looks and charm.