Grade: D+
Ah, how I long for a good chick flick, a genre that I will defend to its death or at least till a divorce do us part. But movies like 27 Dresses make that job awfully difficult. They conform to all the chick flick stereotypes with all the negative connotations.
Predictability is often welcome in a good chick flick, because it welcomes the commonplace, the settings and people and feelings we are used to. But when predictability meets absurdity (a woman who is not only a bridesmaid 27 times, but double stuffs the weddings too), it makes the head spin a little. The chemistry never works for Katherine Heigl and James Marsden, a shame after Heigl's hit performance in Knocked Up and Marsden's first role as leading man instead of charming man who gets dumped (Enchanted, X-Men (all three), Superman Returns, and The Notebook). Everything feels forced, trying to tell jokes that are never funny and relating a story that is never touching.
It doesn't even reach the chick flick status of being so dumb and stupid that you enjoy it. It's a chick flick in search of an identity, not knowing how to be unique and bankable at the same time. I'm not sure what this type of film appeals to, maybe if you were a girl that has dreamt about marriage since you were four...or maybe if you've felt like a girl who has always been neglected. If the former, then I feel sorry for you. If the latter, the film still shouldn't work for you because 9 out of 10 actual girls will choose James Marsden over Ed Burns (in the year 2008). Sad for me to say this, but maybe the movie would've been better if Marsden was the charming who gets dumped.
It's a film to leave at the altar, or else you'll feel cheated later on.
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