27 Dresses (Widescreen Edition)

If you love comey, romance, and happy endings you will love this movie. I bought it an since I've had it I played it like 10 times. i love this movie. I would buy it again.

I loved this movie. While it is predictible, Heigl is wonderful at moving on from her "crush" and finds love in an unexpected place. She still cares enough for her sister and her boss to set things straight, even though it seems crazy. She finally stands up as a bridesmaid and does the right thing by saying "no". Marsden is brilliant and lights up the screen! I wish he would be in more movies; he's a great actor! This movie is sure to lift you up as it did to me!

So..after a long evening in West Hollywood sharing drinks with this beautiful unkown star, I have been a fan from the beginning. The camera loves this woman. But, most importantly, this is a sweet, popcorn movie....put on your pajamas, make yourself some popcorn an enjoy this lovely story of a lonely friend who does everything to help her friends make memories....until she realizes she deserves to be loved as well..... and that is the secret of the movie.... Don't be afraid to love and to be loved in return...And, damn she looks fine. Congratulations Katherine!!!! You've come a long way from Utah and from those early days in West Hollywood.

As Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan and Sandra Bullock have moved somewhat hesitantly past ingénue roles, the baton is being poised for passing to someone worthy of the frothy tradition of the Hollywood rom-com. Beyond an unscientific combination of charisma and beauty, it takes a certain onscreen malleability to be able to conquer this most indefatigable of movie genres. There have been several candidates - Reese Witherspoon faring the best, Kate Hudson, Jennifer Aniston, even Hilary Swank - but I would argue that none take to it as dexterously as Katherine Heigl. She has an immediately accessible quality that sprang fully loaded with her surprisingly assured turn as the accidentally pregnant entertainment reporter in last year's Knocked Up. This time, the actress puts her charms to considerable use in this featherweight 2008 comedy that hinges quite literally on the saying "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride". Directed in formulaic fashion by Anne Fletcher from a predictable screenplay by Aline Brosh McKenna (who did a much snappier job on The Devil Wears Prada), the film has such a packaged sense of its comic possibilities that nothing related to the storyline feels fresh.

Heigl stars as Jane Nichols, a classic "giver" in the truest definition of the word as she has been a willing bridesmaid 27 times over. In typical rom-com fashion, we start with a flashback of an eight-year-old Jane helping her cousin with a last-minute rip in her bridal gown. This is the beginning of her obsession with weddings and how she appears to spend every weekend helping out her friends on their big day. She dreams of her own big day with her handsome boss George, the owner of an ecologically responsible outdoor-goods company. In fact, she becomes so efficient as his girl Friday that he doesn't think of her romantically and instead falls hard for Tess, Jane's selfish, hard-living baby sister. What's worse is that Jane finds herself organizing Tess' wedding to the man of her dreams. Things get even more complicated when a cynical young journalist Kevin Doyle, becomes fascinated with Jane's constant bridesmaid status and decides to write a story about her. It doesn't take much to figure out the rest.

Even though her beauty is toned down a mere fraction, Heigl scores as Jane despite the spiraling contrivances of her character's situation. The toothy James Marsden (Hairspray, Enchanted) makes a spirited foil as Kevin for the comically romantic shenanigans. They make a good pair, but most of their chemistry doesn't appear until late in the film. As Tess, Cameron Diaz doppelganger Malin Ackerman appears to be playing a slightly more savvy variation on the similarly unsympathetic character she played in The Heartbreak Kid. Edward Burns (The Holiday) seems more smug than usual as the clueless George, and perennial second-stringer Judy Greer (Elizabethtown, The TV Set) plays Jane's best friend Case with scabrous, fire-engine-level alacrity. It's surprising that a better soundtrack couldn't be compiled for the film beyond the tired use of Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets" during a drunken night at a roadside bar.

The 2008 DVD offers a few standard extras though no commentary track. The making-of featurette, "The Wedding Party", runs fifteen minutes and feels more like a promotional piece. Costume designer Catherine Marie Thomas is featured on the seven-minute "You'll Never Wear that Again", which discusses the creation of the 27 dresses of the title, and the five-minute "Jane's World" features production designer Shepherd Frankel talking about the look of the film and the design of the various weddings seen in the film. Not related to the movie, the quick "The Running of the Brides" is a small piece that spotlights the one-day wedding dress sale at Filene's Basement, a bargain-priced, east-of-the-Mississippi store chain. Rounding out the extras are three deleted scenes lasting four minutes in total.

Classic romantic comedy plot line. Cute and entertaining. Heigl is a delight. This is also a good stick for all of those who were put in horrible bridesmaids dresses.