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 enlarge | Director: Anne Fletcher
Actors: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Akerman, Brian Kerwin, Charli Barcena
Studio: Fox 2000 Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  121 reviews
Sales Rank: 155
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 111
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 2250659
UPC: 024543506591
EAN: 0024543506591
ASIN: B0015I2RT8
Theatrical Release Date: January 18, 2008
Release Date: April 29, 2008
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 Wonderful Movie! April 17, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This movie was fantastic! Loved it! Wanted to see it again as soon as it ended and will buy the DVD the day it comes out.
 28 days and 27 dresses? April 13, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
We have wedding crashers and star crossed lovers, and all sorts
of chicks flicks in between. These movies are actually good for men who have no idea how women's minds work. I liked this movie, but yesterday I saw one that was half way between this and an actual action movie,
so I have to rate it lower, but I think women will really like this movie.
It is just a little too gooey for me.
The girl gets her man in the end.
Not nearly as good as it should have been April 9, 2008
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
This was a distressingly dull movie. And it shouldn't have been! I was predispossed to like this because 1) I love romantic comedy, 2) I love Katherine Heigl (even as I'm cool on GREY'S ANATOMY), and 3) liked a lot of the supporting players, especially James Marsden and Judy Greer. But the film was torpedoed by one dull scene after another. I didn't have a bad time because Heigl is so likable even when most everything else isn't, but it wasn't enough to salvage the film.
A lot of what was wrong with the movie could be seen almost immediately. On the one hand, Heigl is seen attending two different weddings at exactly the same time, rushing back from one to the other in a taxi, changing her dress each time. It was simply too silly to enjoy. Not to mention logistically improbable. On the other hand, it is almost impossible to buy Katherine Heigl as "always a bridesmaid, never a bride." She is just too shockingly beautiful for that kind of role. (Even when I first saw her on ROSWELL, I was amazed at how truly beautiful she was. This was a show with an entire cast of remarkably attractive people, but even so she was in a class by herself.)
Yeah, some hay is made of her possibly using attending other people's weddings as a way of distancing herself from taking a risk with her own life, but again, her extreme beauty would still only make her believable as someone rejecting a long string of suitors. Instead, we get the impression that men weren't beating a path to her door.
So, this was a movie with a perfect cast that was limited by a remarkably limited script. Maybe someone should reassmble the cast and let them make a new movie with a different script and a new director.
I have a theory as to why TV stars are in so many bad movies. People like Katherine Heigl or Steve Carrell have very narrow windows in which they can make films. If projects are at a particular stage of development, they might not be able to wait three or four months for a particular television actor to become available. The actors are, therefore, forced to take pretty much what is available in the timeslot they have available. So maybe this was the best thing that was available for Katherine Heigl in her GREY'S hiatus. I'm sure if she weren't tied to GREY'S she'd have much better scripts available for her. We'll find out when that show ends or when her contract allows her to leave.
27 Dresses?!!!!!! PLEASE..... April 9, 2008
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
An ok movie that could have been so much better. One of the main problems starts right off with the title, and main premise. It's just not believable that anyone has 27 girlfriends, much less that they all get married, and you are a bridesmaid each time. If they had made it 10 dresses, it would have already been too much...but 27....Please.
Next problem the first 5 minutes of the movie, Jane (Katherine Heigl) attends two weddings on the same night. Already stretching it, but more so when it's made clear she organized the 2 weddings. She goes from one wedding to another changing each time in a taxi she has hired for the evening. Right, if she was planning these weddings and was so close to the brides, couldn't she convince one of them to have her wedding the next day? Please....
After this, there are all sorts of problems with character development. Jane is supposed to be an extremely sweet person who can never say no; but the manner in which she decides to tell her sister's fiance the truth is so far out there, it's not credible even as an extreme case of repressed anger.
Her life seems to revolve around being a bridesmaid, and reading the wedding editorials...they could have had her do this without it being the central focus of her life. Even her "love" for her boss seemed to come second place to her obsession with weddings.
Her boss falling in love with her sister is totally not credible. She looks trashy in her too-short dresses. Admitting that opposites attract (he an outdoors man and she a sophisticate), would be more acceptable if she looked a bit classier. The way she was dressed most of the time was more conducive to a one-night stand than to a marriage proposal, which by the way came way too fast.
The actor who plays Kevin gives an uneven performance. It looked like he was acting sometimes. But I blame the director for this...they should have re-shot some scenes.
Worst of all, the dress changing scenes. How many times do we have to rehash Pretty Woman?
Ok, I know I'm not supposed to take these romantic comedies so seriously, but do they have to dumb them down so much? Have any of these writers/directors ever watched "When Harry met Sally"? Please do, maybe you can learn a thing or two.
Conclusion: Watch if you like Katherine Heigl (only reason I gave it 3 instead of 2 stars) and are looking for a really light fare.
Otherwise, skip it.
Excellent humor and poise with a lot of wit! April 7, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I went to see this movie with my girlfriend, and as I suspected, I loved it. The critics attacked it because they saw another movie that was always a bridemaid and never a bride. That is not how I saw this movie at all, even though you may see that in the premise. I see her not really looking so much for marriage as romance, and not so much at romance as much as pleasing her friends.
She is in love with her boss, the very adorable Edward Burns, for whom I have had a crush on since I saw him in She's the One. When her sister comes to town, which I may say is the annoying part of the movie, I didnt like her in the Heartbreak Kid either, she seems like she is trying too hard. Anyway when her sister comes to town, she ends up meeting her boss, Edward Burns, and they fall in love and immediately plan a wedding for which she wants her sister to be a bridesmaid.
Jane's best friend is awesome too, very sharp and funny while she helps her friend come to terms with what she really wants in life. It was hillarious in the beginning when you see Jane running between two different weddings as a bridesmaid for the same night, that is when you realize she has been a bridesmaid so many times that sometimes they fall on the same weekend. I also love it when she shows us her collection of dresses and the many places they take her to remember the good times she has had. The best scene is the bar scene with James Marsden when they get stuck in the mud and have no choice but to go inside the bar and get dry...and then drunk. Its hillarious. It is also the moment when you realize Jane isnt just a plain girl looking to please others, that she has agendas of her own.
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