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27 DRESSES Send This Review to a Friend
Katherine Heigl is an engaging actress (“Knocked Up”) who plays a wedding planner in “27 Dresses,” a romantic comedy written by Aline Brosh McKenna and directed by Anne Fletcher. What was needed was a better movie planner. The film scores high in the ditsy department, but not high in terms of credible plot, charismatic romance or much else.
The story angle is that Jane (Heigl) is always the bridesmaid, never the bride. She has also played second fiddle to her younger sister Tess (Malin Ackerman), who is patently attractive but spoiled, self-centered and insensitive. When not working on weddings, Jane is an assistant to George (Edward Burns), a boss on whom she has a crush. But he falls for Tess, and they are on their way to a marriage that Jane will have to tolerate.
Meanwhile, Jane meets a newspaperman (James Marsden) whose specialty is covering weddings while he hopes for a chance at more exciting journalism. It takes a while for them to hit it off, but he writes an embarrassing piece about her that makes her furious.
By this time one is not likely to care how all of this is worked out. But it gets worse. Jane wrecks her sister’s wedding plans, and if you can believe that her sister forgives all, bears no grudge and understands herself better, this film may be for you. A 20th Century Fox release
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