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The filmmakers perfectly follow the well-worn romantic comedy formula, rendering 27 Dresses clichéd and mostly forgettable. Read critic reviews

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Perennial bridesmaid Jane (Katherine Heigl) always puts the needs of others before her own, making her the go-to gal whenever someone needs help with wedding plans. So when Jane's younger sister Tess (Malin Akerman) snags the man (Edward Burns) Jane secretly loves, Jane finds herself questioning her role as a wedding junkie for the first time in her life. Meanwhile, a handsome reporter (James Marsden) sees Jane's unusual story as his ticket off the bridal beat.

Rating: PG-13 (Sexuality|Language|Some Innuendo)

Genre: Romance, Comedy

Original Language: English

Director: Anne Fletcher

Producer: Roger Birnbaum , Gary Barber , Jonathan Glickman

Writer: Aline Brosh McKenna

Release Date (Theaters): Jan 18, 2008  wide

Release Date (Streaming): Nov 25, 2015

Box Office (Gross USA): $76.8M

Runtime: 1h 47m

Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Production Co: Birnbaum/Barber, Spyglass Entertainment

Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS

Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

Cast & Crew

Katherine Heigl

James Marsden

Malin Akerman

Edward Burns

Melora Hardin

Brian Kerwin

Maulik Pancholy

David Castro

Krysten Ritter

Gina the Goth

Shari Rabinowitz

Ronald Guttman

Peyton List

Charli Barcena

Anne Fletcher

Aline Brosh McKenna

Randy Edelman

Original Music

Roger Birnbaum

Gary Barber

Jonathan Glickman

Becki Cross Trujillo

Executive Producer

Michael Mater

Peter James

Cinematographer

Priscilla Nedd-Friendly

Film Editing

Shepherd Frankel

Production Design

Catherine Marie Thomas

Costume Design

Cathy Sandrich

Amanda Mackey

Jonathan Arkin

Art Director

Miguel López-Castillo

Chryss Hionis

Set Decoration

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27 Dresses is a pointless, overdone, clichéd and predictable mess of a movie. I really hated the film, and thought it was a pointless affair that just relied on a poorly written script that doesn't offer anything entertaining or fun for the viewer. This is the type of film that relies on a strained, overdone formula, thus it suffers from start to finish. 27 Dresses just fails in terms of a comedy and is a painful movie, even by Rom-com standards. If you're looking for a fun, and entertaining genre comedy, watch Bridesmaids instead. This is just a film to be avoided and it just ends up being one of those pictures that was made to make a lot of money without thinking twice about creating worth seeing. In terms of talent, the cast is horrible, and none bring anything that can salvage this train wreck of a film. This is not worth your time, and if you're looking for a good rom-com, you won't find it. The film just fails on every single front, and it joins the long list of stupid genre comedies that ultimately fail to bring anything worthwhile to the genre. Avoid 27 Dresses, you'll be glad you did, it is a poorly constructed film that just doesn't satisfy the viewer. Even the target audience will surely think that this film is horrible and a dull, boring clichéd affair that really fails in terms of entertainment. Katherine Heigl is a horrible actress and should just quit acting. I find her really bland and quite frankly a forgettable actress. Her work will most likely be forgotten in another decade and she has no screen presence or acting ability. 27 Dresses is a film that should be avoided.

Very watchable somehow. Katherine Heigl shows some acting strength here.

Two and a half stars is not a great rating, by any stretch, but I should note that I enjoyed this movie more than expected. I credit a lot of it to James Marsden. What was hard for me was believing in Katherine Heigl. The hardest part of acting is acting naturally, and I don't think there's anything natural about her whatsoever. I felt the same way about Malin Akerman. I could see them both acting. The story, however, is strong and the dialogue isn't too corny, and aside from the irrecoverable time spent on a Benny and the Jets singalong, it's a watchable movie. Not one I'll see again, but something guys can deal with when it's their girlfriends' turn to choose...

Really funny film and a great romantic comedy!

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Bridesmaid Revisited, Again and Again

By A.O. Scott

• Jan. 18, 2008

At the beginning of “27 Dresses,” Jane (Katherine Heigl), a serial bridesmaid with an almost pathological devotion to other people’s nuptials, spends a long night shuttling between two weddings. One is in Midtown Manhattan, the other in Brooklyn; one has an upper-crusty, white-bread look, while the other appears to be a Jewish-Hindu intermarriage. But as the director, Anne Fletcher, methodically cuts back and forth between them, she makes the reasonably insightful, moderately funny point that modern American weddings, however they may strain for individuality and specialness, are all pretty much alike.

The problem is that much the same could be said about modern American romantic comedies. There is a touch of idiosyncrasy here and there — in this one the heroine’s dad is a widower who owns a hardware store! — but most of the elements might as well have been pulled off the registry list at a high-end chain store.

The template is something like this: A career woman who lives in a bright and perky city (though usually not the one in which it was filmed; most of this Manhattan is actually Providence, R.I.) takes a bit under two hours to make it to the altar with (or at least be stopped at the airport by) the Right Guy, who had seemed at first to be the Wrong Guy. Earlier, the Wrong Guy had seemed to be the Right Guy.

For ease of reference let’s call the one the heroine ends up with the Right Wrong Guy and the one she rejects the Wrong Right Guy. In the case of “27 Dresses” the Right Wrong Guy is James Marsden, who recently played the Wrong Right Guy in “Enchanted,” while the Wrong Right Guy is Edward Burns, who gets to be the Right Wrong Guy mostly in movies he writes and directs himself.

The best thing about “27 Dresses,” which was written by Aline Brosh McKenna (whose script adaptation of “The Devil Wears Prada” was far more witty and interesting), is that the Guys are not really the point. Or rather, if getting the Right one is the point of the story (see above), the spark of comedy is carried by the women in the picture.

Too bad it’s such a dim spark. Ms. Heigl, the blossoming babymama in “Knocked Up,” has an impressive gift for mugging. Her eyebrows shoot up and scrunch downward with amazing precision, and her mouth contorts itself amusingly when she says things like “gewurztraminer,” “hot hate sex” and “I’m Jesus.”

Which may make the movie sound more interesting than it is. To allay that impression, let me just note that the big comic-romantic set piece comes when Jane and the Right Wrong Guy get drunk at a suburban roadhouse and sing “Benny and the Jets” while dancing on the bar. At least it wasn’t “Y.M.C.A.” or “I Got You (I Feel Good),” but still.

Back at the office Jane has the requisite slutty/flaky best friend, who at least is played by the irrepressible Judy Greer (“13 Going on 30”). Jane’s sister, Tess — her rival, as it happens, for the love of the Wrong Right Guy — is Malin Akerman, who was the only remotely funny thing about “The Heartbreak Kid,” in which she played the Wrong Right Girl.

Why Ms. Fletcher and Ms. McKenna couldn’t have supplied these three funny, charming women with a funny, charming movie is something of a puzzle. Or maybe it isn’t, since their task seems to have been to produce a movie that wouldn’t make all the other movies exactly like it too envious.

Ms. Heigl certainly works hard to convince the audience of the existence of a universe in which she could be the dowdier, shyer member of a pair of sisters. The costume designer, Catherine Marie Thomas, worked at least as hard to find a dress (out of the 27 in the title) that might make Ms. Heigl look less than gorgeous. A futile effort, like most of the rest of the movie, or the attempt to find anything else to say about it.

“27 Dresses” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It has some sexual situations and some mild swearing.

Opens on Friday nationwide.

Directed by Anne Fletcher; written by Aline Brosh McKenna; director of photography, Peter James; edited by Priscilla Nedd-Friendly; music by Randy Edelman; produced by Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber and Jonathan Glickman; released by 20th Century Fox. Running time: 1 hour 47 minutes.

WITH: Katherine Heigl (Jane), James Marsden (Kevin), Malin Akerman (Tess), Judy Greer (Casey) and Edward Burns (George).

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39 Thoughts I Had While Rewatching 27 Dresses

By Emma Specter

Spring is in the air (sort of, depending on where you live), and as more and more people receive their COVID-19 vaccines , it’s possible that nights out will soon be back on the horizon—which means, of course, the return of the Hungover Sunday Rom-Com Viewing Experience. This is a time-honored tradition that is best enjoyed with a bagel and iced coffee in hand, and the schmaltzier the rom-com, the better. To that end, today’s rom-com recap revisits the 2008 classic 27 Dresses. Let’s dive in, shall we?

• Will I ever be able to watch a wedding scene in a movie again and not think of it primarily as a potential super-spreader event?
• Katherine Heigl plays Jane, an always-the-bridesmaid-never-the-bride type who we know is not living up to her full potential because she has brownish hair. Yuck!
• Question: How do you fit this many weddings (27, even!) into normal life? Does Jane have a job?
• Hey, Judy Greer !
• Jane sailing across the Manhattan Bridge in a cab is making me realize I haven’t been to Manhattan in forever. I should fix that.
• James Marsden plays Kevin, a wedding columnist(?) who is immediately spellbound by Jane, the Wedding Helper.
• Not to be a knee-jerk capitalist, but Jane should really be getting paid for her wedding doula work. Take a hint from J.Lo in The Wedding Planner , queen!
• Seriously, if I plan my friend’s entire wedding and all they do is thank me in a speech, I’ll be pissed. Where’s my floral arrangement, at least?
• Classic rom-com moment: Jane passes out and hits her head at one of a parade of weddings, and Kevin gets her back on her feet. They share a cab, she forgets her day planner, and he realizes she’s a wedding nut. Voilà, we have a premise!
• Okay, yes, Jane does in fact have a full-time job. Interesting.
• Kevin pitches a front-page story about Jane, but his mean boss, played by Melora Hardin ( Jan !), isn’t into it. He gets his way, but the stakes are high.
• Oh, God, just to complete sad-girl bingo, Jane is in love with her boss, George. Judy Greer encourages her to go for it, as Judy Greer is wont to do, but Jane is too focused on picking up her baby sister, Tess (Malin Ackerman), from the airport.
• Tess is blonder than Jane, so clearly she’s happier, better adjusted, and more popular.
• Man, only in a late-aughts rom-com is Katherine Heigl framed as the ugly duckling.
• Oh, no! George falls for Tess! Scandal! Jane is clearly pissed but suppressing it (not very well).
• Kevin correctly questions how Jane manages to pay for so many wedding gifts and calls it “sad.” (Yep.) Then he asks her out, she says no, and he keeps trying, in that persistent way that’s cute in rom-coms and annoying bordering on creepy in real life.
• Being the ultimate Nice Guy, George is a member of the Big Brother program, and Tess is very weird and racist to his Little Brother, Pedro. They all go to Pedro’s baseball game, and Tess pretends to be a vegetarian who hikes, because George is those things. Oy. The one thing I learned living in L.A.: Never pretend you like hiking to woo someone, because you’ll eventually be found out.
• Oh, wow, Tess is even pretending to like dogs. The outrage!
• George proposes to Tess in a big, humiliating restaurant scene (or, I suppose, a romantic scene, if you like that sort of thing), and Jane is devastated but literally plans the whole thing because she’s a huge masochist and clearly does not have a therapist.
• Aw, man, it is actually kind of sad when Tess and Jane’s dad gives Tess their mom’s wedding dress, which Jane clearly wanted. Still, I’m unsympathetic. Speak up for yourself, Jane!
• Jane finally goes out with Kevin and explains she can’t say no to her sister, so she’s helping to plan the wedding. He (and I) don’t buy it.
• Why are women in rom-coms always walking fast and talking in parks? Were there no bars or coffee shops in 2008? Did they predict COVID-19 socialization?
• Tess plans to recreate her and Jane’s parents’ wedding, which...is creepy?
• Another classic rom-com gal-pal activity: Jane and Judy Greer do yoga. I don’t think you’re actually supposed to loudly discuss your personal life in a group yoga class, but I digress.
• Montage time! Jane tries on all five million of her bridesmaid dresses for Kevin, and it’s a fun scene, but I cannot get over the psycho Miss Havisham energy of devoting a whole closet in her New York apartment to old bridesmaid dresses. Yikes!
• “Twenty-seven dresses,” marvels Kevin. Hey, that’s the movie title!
• We’ve arrived at my 27th thought, which seems...on theme. Unfortunately, it is I have to pee .
• Okay, I’m back. Kevin accuses Jane of wanting a big wedding and being Miss Helpful Wedding Girl to distract from her own desires, and we find out his wife left him for his college roommate. They’re both broken!
• Kevin realizes Jane is in love with George, she’s pissed about it and denies it, and then they...sing “Bennie and the Jets” at karaoke? It’s a pretty iconic scene, to be honest.
• God, I miss being inside of bars. And don’t even get me started on karaoke.
• Hookup time! It is a law of rom-coms that if two people are rain drenched, they legally have to make out.
• Just as things are looking good for Kevin and Jane (Jevin? Kane?), she sees his front-page Styles story about her wedding addiction, slaps him, and storms off. Kevin is a real weenie to Melora Hardin, who correctly points out that he got a big story and should just thank her. Is she the real hero of the movie?
• Last straw time: Tess “forgives” Jane for shit-talking her in the story, then reveals she’s totally altered their mother’s wedding dress. Jane flips out. Fair enough.
• Wow, this is a bit of an overcorrection! Jane presents a whole slide show at the rehearsal dinner about what a nonvegetarian, nonhiking, nonchill party girl Tess is. Scorched earth.
• Okay, this is so mean. This is what I hate about passive-aggressive martyr types: All that bottled rage has to go somewhere! Tess and George call off the wedding, but Jane is still miserable.
• Kevin tells Jane, “I think you deserve more than what you settle for.” I don’t know if she does, personally, but to each his own.
• Tess and Jane eventually patch things up, and Jane cleans out her bridesmaid dress closet. Symbolic!
• George and Jane finally smooch, but there are no sparks because she’s totes in love with Kevin. She runs off to yet another wedding to tell him, and they kiss after a big public speech, thereby ruining some nice couple’s reception in the process like the selfish monsters they are.
• One year later, Jane and Kevin are getting married on the beach, with all of the various brides Jane has helped in the exact dresses they made her wear. Okay, that’s kind of a good ending. Mazel!

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27 Dresses Review

27 Mar 2008

111 minutes

Tulips, daffodils and a wedding movie. It must be Spring, huh? And they don’t come much springier than this fluffy, formulaic romantic comedy with its poofy gowns, pop music montages and a honey of a leading lady.

Aline Brosh McKenna, who wrote the screenplay adaptation for The Devil Wears Prada, turns this original work into a pastiche of scads of wedding-centric pictures, complete with the wisecracking bosom buddy (Judy Greer) and the fairy-tale sensibility. Whenever the plotting flags, choreographer-turned-director Fletcher whips up a montage. Cue a jolly flash through the ceremonies where Jane wore all those weird maid of honour get-ups - from a cowboy-themed affair on horseback to underwater nuptials - which beg certain questions. Like how does she even know all these goofy people with such bad taste? And where are they now? There’s also the scene where a bar full of people join in with Jane and Kevin’s spirited drunken stylings, here of Benny And The Jets (which, by the way, practically duplicates a classic incident in US sitcom 3rd Rock From The Sun in which Dick, Mary and a bunch of diner customers performed Oklahoma).

But for those who love a wacky wedding wheeze the performances are great fun, particularly from the two leads. Heigl carries this off endearingly, while Marsden, who got this leading man shot on the strength of his performance in Hairspray, is adorable. So adorable, in fact, that it’s impossible to grasp why Jane spends so much of the running time fending him off. It also might have been more interesting if the absurdly spoiled younger sister (Canadian model Akerman) weren’t a selfish, lying witch. There’s only room for one deserving bride in this particular taffeta ghetto.

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Having nicely established her big-screen credibility with the summer hit “Knocked Up,” Katherine Heigl tries a little further “ Grey’s Anatomy ” moonlighting on for size with “27 Dresses.”

But while Heigl is terrific, this uninspired romantic comedy is considerably less so.

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Heigl’s not-so-plain Jane is the owner of those 27 dresses, a perennial bridesmaid who has kept all of them — no matter how hideous — squished into the closet of her already-cramped New York apartment with the hope of one day being the main attraction.

She has always been there for her friends and longtime boss (Edward Burns), for whom she has harbored an unrequited crush, but her charitable instincts are about to be put to the supreme test when her bratty, globetrotting kid sister (Malin Akerman) comes to town and proceeds to strike up an instant love connection with said employer.

Meanwhile, Jane also has been fending off the perpetual advances of a cynical writer (James Marsden), who, unbeknown to her, pens those Commitment columns in the New York Journal, which she has been secretly clipping out for years.

Will Jane finally find happiness with the right guy or is she destined for Bridesmaid’s Dress No. 28? Does the devil wear Prada?

It so happens that the person responsible for the “27 Dresses” script is none other than “The Devil Wears Prada” screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, but in fashion world parlance, this one’s a shameless knockoff.

Jerky boss? Check. Sardonic best friend? Check (played by Judy Greer). Scene in which everybody takes part in an impromptu golden oldie sing-along? Check. (Here it’s Elton John’s “Bennie and the Jets.”)

While Peter James’ camera clearly loves Heigl and the actress looks to have a promising motion picture career ahead of her, “27 Dresses,” with its recycled sentiments and empty gestures, won’t be the one to build on that “Knocked Up” momentum.

Here, she and Marsden do what they can to work with a chemistry that feels dictated rather than organic, but at the end of the day, they’re hopelessly stuck with hand-me-down material that is really beginning to look and feel its age.

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It’s not easy to be a beauty and a funny girl — a va-va-voom body tends to distract from the jokes. But Katherine Heigl has the knack — look at Knocked Up . Just don’t look here. Heigl fights an uphill battle in 27 Dresses , a chick-flick compendium of wedding cliches that will have every guy bolting for the exits. Screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna also wrote The Devil Wears Prada , but she’s dipped her sharp wit in sentimental syrup. It helps to have Judy Greer around as Heigl’s acid-tongued BFF. But McKenna and director Anne Fletcher ( Step Up ) make a fatal error. They want us to believe that the gorgeous Heigl is a plain Jane who saves her bridesmaid dresses — all twenty-seven of them — while stoking her unrequited love for her macho boss (Ed Burns). Not buying it. Even James Marsden, so good in Enchanted and Hairspray , can’t put any zip into the role of a cynical wedding columnist who morphs unpersuasively into our girl’s Prince Charming. 27 Dresses is so flimsy it gives froth a bad name.

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27 Dresses Ending: Does Jane End Up With George or Kevin?

‘ 27 Dresses ,’ the 2008 rom-com starring Katherine Heigl as the protagonist, follows the story of Jane Nichols, a hopeless romantic who has attended numerous weddings as a bridesmaid but never one as a bride. However, fate plays a particularly cruel joke on her when she becomes the bridesmaid— and unwitting wedding planner— in her sister Tess’ wedding to George, Jane’s boss and the man of her dreams. As the preparations for the dreaded day commence, Jane must decide whether to put her needs before her sister’s— or subscribe to charming Kevin’s philosophy that love and marriage are nothing but a farce!

Jane’s character, defined by her caring personality, predictably falls in love with George, her boss, who is in constant need of her attention at work as his personal assistant. Meanwhile, Kevin, a new addition to Jane’s life, challenges her beliefs and keeps the woman on her toes. Thus, as the viewers accompany Jane in her story, their curiosity must remain piqued on where the narrative takes the woman’s love life. SPOILERS AHEAD!

Jane’s Perpetual Pining Over George

Through Jane’s introduction into the story as a reliable friend, high in demand for bridesmaid duties, the narrative establishes the character’s desire for a wedding of her own. Even though Jane adores helping her friends during their special days, she can’t help but wish the same for herself. Nevertheless, Jane is entirely single, with a wedding nowhere on the horizon for the woman.

Part of the reason stems from Jane’s feelings for her boss, George. Jane joined George’s entrepreneurial company as his personal assistant following her graduation from college. Soon, she fell head-over-heels in love with the man and never gave up the position to progress in her career. Thus, Jane remained stunted professionally as well as romantically— desperately pining after a man who never appreciated her as anything more than his assistant.

For the same reason, George’s meeting and instant attraction with Tess, Jane’s sister, strikes a chord with the latter. While Tess is charming and magnetic on her own, she purposefully lies about her interests and past to impress George. Consequently, with Tess becoming George’s ideal partner, the two quickly got engaged and began preparations for their wedding. Yet, Tess’ flaky personality and George’s disinterest in bearing the brunt of the wedding planning leave the responsibility on Jane, Tess’ maid of honor.

Jane— a textbook people pleaser— is unable to turn down the couple’s request, condemning herself to plan the wedding of the man she’s in love with to someone other than herself. Nevertheless, she remains quiet about her feelings and goes along with the tortuous development. Yet, eventually, after another personal crisis— involving a charming man named Kevin— Jane loses her cool and publicly reveals Tess’ lies, unable to let George marry someone who has been lying to him since day one.

The act effectively leads George to end his relationship with Tess and call off the wedding. However, shortly after Jane’s eternal crush becomes single again, the woman realizes that her relationship with George has always been incredibly one-sided. George has been a close friend for a long time, and he appreciates her efforts toward the job. Still, the fact remains that George’s affection toward her— platonic or potentially romantic— only emerges as a result of her resourcefulness to him. Inversely, Jane, who thrives on helping people— be it as a sibling , a bridesmaid, or a personal assistant— gravitates toward George because he has a constant need for her.

With this realization, it becomes easier for Jane to blurt out her feelings for George in her bewilderment. Yet, even though the confession leads to a few kisses, the pair easily realize that there’s no spark between them. George has only ever been a fantasy for Jane. Her feelings for him may have been true at one point. Nonetheless, for a long time now, she has only been holding on to him as an emotional crutch to stop herself from opening up to someone else.

Jane and Kevin: The 28th Wedding

Kevin’s arrival into Jane’s life remains unexpected, yet uniquely fateful, with their relationship progressing in a similar manner. Kevin is a writer who works in the “Commitments” section of the New York Journal, which pens articles about people’s weddings, providing readers with a short summation of their real-life relationships. Ironically, Kevin himself is a giant cynic when it comes to love and marriage— or at least, that’s the image he puts out into the world.

As such, once Kevin realizes that Jane has been a bridesmaid more than 20 times without a wedding of her own, he comes up with the idea for a piece about her experience to showcase the absurdity of the wedding culture. For the same reason, after their meet-cute (or meet-ugly, depending on one’s perspective) at a wedding, Kevin begins pursuing the woman. The relationship between the pair remains playfully antagonistic, with constant snipping and bickering.

Eventually, Tess’ engagement brings Kevin into Jane’s orbit after he approaches the younger Nichols sister under the guise of writing an article. Therefore, he discovers that Jane is actually a huge fan of his work, written under a pseudonym, treating them as reverent evidence of true love. In turn, the same revelation also informs Jane that Kevin pretends to be a pessimist about love because his wife left him for his college roommate in the past.

Over the course of their budding relationship, where they warm up to each other from enemies to tentative friends, Kevin begins to understand Jane in an honest and genuine manner. He recognizes that others have only ever wanted Jane to look after their needs. However, unlike others, Kevin wants to support Jane and look after her.

Their growing attraction inevitably leads to a fateful moment when their car gets stuck in a field, compelling them to seek shelter from the rain at a local dive bar. As such, the two end up sharing an enjoyable night of impromptu tipsy karaoke, leading to them sleeping together. Nevertheless, after Kevin’s article about Jane runs in the paper the next morning— without the writer’s knowledge— it drives a wedge between the pair.

Yet, the same incident also leads Jane to ruin Tess and George’s engagement— which helps her register the frailty of her feelings for the other man. As a result, Jane realizes that she actually wants to give Kevin a chance, leading to a chase through the docks that ends in a confession aboard a wedding yacht on the sea. In the end, Jess ends up with Kevin, with the two sharing their first kiss at a stranger’s wedding. A year later, the couple went on to marry each other.

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W hat a maddening waste of Katherine Heigl this insipid romantic comedy is. She's cast as a no-brain wedding junkie, with a role whose demands stretch her range from kitchen to wardrobe as a New York personal assistant who lives for weddings and her rugged boss. (She'd cut a sad, friendless figure in real life, with all those subscriptions to wedding magazines and a wardrobe of old bridesmaid's dresses.) But Heigl has a knack for light comedy, and an easy good grace, which is just as well since she has taken on a script that fails to find satire on the can't-miss territory of the Manhattan wedding circuit. Anyone holding out for a glorious final scene of emancipated dress-burning needn't bother.

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• After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with.
• Two things about Jane: she never says no to her friends (she's been a bridesmaid 27 times and selflessly plans friends' weddings), and she's in love with her boss, George, nurturing dreams of a lovely, romantic wedding of her own. She meets Kevin, a cynical writer who finds her attractive, and that same week her flirtatious younger sister Tess comes to town. Jane silently watches George fall for Tess, a manipulative pretender. Worse, Jane may be called upon to plan their wedding. Meanwhile, Kevin tries to get Jane's attention and has an idea that may advance his career. Can Jane uncork her feelings? — <[email protected]>
• Jane is career-oriented and secretly in love with her employer, George. She spends much of her time as a bridesmaid, and has 27 dresses as evidence. Then her structured and ordered life comes unhinged when her younger sister, Tess, re-enters her life, and a reporter, Kevin, is attracted to her. Kevin decides to publish Jane's secret and her overwhelming wardrobe. Things get even more complicated when Jane finds out she may end up losing George to none other than her very own sister. — rAjOo ([email protected])
• The movie opens with a voiceover by Jane (Katherine Heigl) as she explains when she first discovered her "calling" in life. The scene is from her childhood when she, her younger sister Tess and their father attend a realtive's wedding. This is shortly following the death of their mother so Jane must act as a mother figure for her sister. When her father asks Jane to take Tess to the bathroom, she comes across a distraught bride who has torn a seam on her dress leaving a whole at the back of the bodice that shows the upper half of her rear end. Jane has a moment of epiphany and uses her sister's hair ribbon and sews up the back fo the dress in a becoming way. The ecstatic bride then asks Jane to carry her train down the aisle as a reward. Flash forward in time to the present -- Jane is in a bridal shop with seamstresses all around her hemming a wedding dress. A woman walks in and says "The bride is on the phone" where you discover that Jane is the same size as the bride and is doing her bridesmaid duty of having the wedding dress hemmed the morning of the wedding for the panicking bride. She leaves the store, dress in hand, wearing her bridesmaid dress and hurries to the nuptials making it in time for the bride to change and get ready for her ceremony. During the ceremony, Jane continuously looks at her watch and a guest at the wedding (played by James Marsden) notices her impatience. As soon as there is a break in the festivities, Jane rushes out and hails a taxi whose driver she offers $300 for the entire night if he agrees not to look in the rearview mirror or he will suffer a deduction from that sum. Jane proceeds to change into another dress which is revealed as a traditional Indian sari that is her bridesmaid's dress for another wedding on the same night. Throughout the remainder of the night, she speeds between weddings/receptions, changing in the taxi which is seen by Kevin (James Marsden). At the end of the night, Jane is at the first wedding preparing for the bouquet toss which comes straight for her until she is tackled by some over-enthusiastic girls and knocked unconcscious. When she wakes up, Kevin (James Marsden) is leaning over her and helps her up, where she swoons, and then offers to accompany her home. On the trip to Jane's apartment, Kevin comments on her two-wedding night and proceeds to mention his opinion about the ludicrousness of the ceremony. This sparks a lively debate between the two about the sacredness of a wedding and marriage which leaves Kevin charmed and Jane annoyed. Once they reach Jane's apartment building, she leaves and Kevin discovers her "filofax", or day planner, in the taxi and decides to look through it. Kevin Doyle (James Marsden) discovers that Jane has been in 7 weddings that year and, as he is the writer of the local newpaper's "Commitments" section (under his full name Malcolm Doyle) he asks his editor if he could write a feature story on Jane (Heigl) for the front page of the section in the hopes that, if it is good enough, he can get out of the "taffeta ghetto." The next scene, we see Jane going to the office with her friend, Casey (Judy Greer), who was also in one of the weddings with her. Once inside the office, Jane is heckled for her longtime crush on her boss, George (Edward Burns), to whom she is a personal assistant. Everyone knows about her infatuation except for George, who owns the eco-friendly outdoor sports magazine business that they work for. Flowers are delivered for Jane without a note and she excitedly assumes that they are from George. When she leaves work with Casey (Judy Greer), Jane says that she has to go and pick up her sister from the airport but that she will see Casey later at another coworker's engagement party that night. At the airport, Jane picks up her sister, Tess (Malin Akerman) who has been working in Milan as a model. They go back to Jane's apartment, where Tess will be staying for a few weeks, and they talk about their parent's wedding photo which Jane has framed in her house. They agree that it was romantic but Tess dislikes her mother's dress while Jane is completely taken with the entire event -- at the boat house, at sunset, etc. Tess proceeds to pick up a pile of newspaper clippings on the counter that are featured engagement profiles from the paper written by her favorite writer of engagement and wedding announcements, Malcolm Doyle, whose sweet descriptions and feelings make his the best. As they talk, Jane invites her sister to the engagement party and Tess admits that she has plans to meet with some friends from Milan for drinks, but will try and make it. The engagement party takes place in a bar and has a gothic theme. Jane is talking with Casey when George shows up and asks Jane what he had purchased the couple (which she had obvioulsy done for him.) After a few minutes of small talk, George asks Jane if "what he put on her desk" that morning was okay since their relationship had not "been that way" before. Jane says it was okay and, once George walks away, Casey (shocked that the flowers were actually from George) demands that she walk up to George and express her true feelings. Confident, Jane begins to walk toward the bar, and George, when she notices his gaze locking on something across the room. George is captivated by Tess (Akerman) who has just entered the bar looking for her sister. The two lock eyes and walk towards each other, directly in front of the deflating Jane. As they are introduced, George mentions that Jane is his lifeline and that she had even picked up his dry cleaning which he had left on her desk that morning. George then asks Tess if she would like to get a drink at the bar, an offer that Jane had turned down from him earlier in order to seem responsible. As Tess (Akerman) and George (Burns) head to the bar, Kevin (Marsden) appears and asks Jane (Heigl) if she liked the flowers that he sent. Upset at the situation, Jane excuses herself to scream in an adjacent room which turns out to be a private anniversary party where she embarrasses herself with her outburst. When she returns to the dance floor where Kevin is waiting, holding her drink, he gives her filofax back to her and jibes her about her full-time wedding duties and asks her to get a drink. Depressed about the situation, Jane declines and goes to the bar to influence her sister to leave for the night. However, Tess asks George to go dancing instead and, though George invites Jane, Tess subtly hints at her sister to decline the offer and they leave together. Jane goes back to her apartment but cannot sleep while her sister is out until the early hours of the morning. So, frustrated, Jane gets out of bed and does sit-ups, reads a wedding magazine, brushes her teeth and ultimately begins scrubbing the stove in the kitchen before Tess returns. Trying to play-down her obvious agitation, Jane listens as her sister talks about her "wonderful" evening and asks for details about George. Jane obliges, and gives unique details about him that reveal her feelings for him, but Tess does not pick up on her sister's crush. Tess reveals that she and George had gotten kind of intimate and that he wanted to have lunch the next day. She asks her sister if this would be alright and Jane, always sacrificing for others, says that it is fine. The next day, the girls visit their father at his hardware store. While they are having breakfast in his loft upstairs, George calls Tess and she giggles with him on the phone in another room while Jane becomes upset. In the office, Jane looks over into George's office and sees her sister in a short dress leaning over the desk and flirting with George. Jane opens her filofax and sees that Kevin has written his name on every Saturday in her planner along with his phone number. She calls him and tells him to leave her alone, but he renews the offer for drinks saying if she ever wanted to hang out with someone who didn't need her to "take them to a fitting or a cake tasting" he would be available. Once Jane hangs up, Pedro (David Castro), George's "little brother" from the Big Brother program, arrives for George to take him to his baseball game. George insists that both Jane and Tess come along so they leave for the game. At the game, George, Tess and Jane go to the concession stand to order some refreshments before the game. Jane orders a chili dog and asks Tess if she would like one when Tess says that she is a "recent vegetarian". Jane scoffs as she knows that Tess is lying because of Jane's statement that George does not eat meat. Tess also proceeds to comment on her hiking trips (while Jane rolls her eyes) and her love for their dog "Tory". Jane, finally fed up with her shenanigans, corrects her sister that the dog's name was "Toby" which Tess explains away as being what she called the dog due to her lisp. George rejoins and says that he, too, had a speech impediment as a child--he stuttered. Pedro calls for George to come and "shag some flies" with him on the field and when the girls are left alone, Jane confronts her sister on lying and hating Toby. Tess justifies herself saying that she could "learn to not eat meat", she likes the outdoors for tanning and she only hated it when Toby slobbered on her. George saves her from her sister's irritation when he calls for Tess to try her hand at batting (in a dress and heels). The next few scenes are a montage of Tess and George's relationship as Jane walks in on them making out in the apartment, sees a slideshow of pictures of them on George's office computer, etc. One night in the office, after everyone else has gone home, Jane goes into George's office to straighten up and notices that he has left his wallet. Scanning his desk calendar, she hurries to the restaurant listed to give him his wallet. When she walks into the restaurant, she sees that they entire area has been rented out, there is a band and they drop a banner that says "Will You Marry Me". George comes in and says "No, guys, that's not her" and they roll the banner back up. Jane, crushed, gives him back his wallet just as Tess walks in. The whole scene replays as George has his dog, Gatsby, bring in the ring, and he proposes to Tess while Jane tries, in vain, to escape the scene. After having to bear witness to the man she loves proposing to her sister, Jane agrees to meet Kevin (Marsden) at a bar. She explains her being upset as having to do with the anticipation of being "dumped on" by her sister to work out all of the wedding details. Kevin chides her for not being able to say no to anyone and they talk about her constant need to do whatever anyone asks. Then, the girls are back at their father's apartment with George and their father says that George is his "hero" for giving Jane a job and marrying Tess since she has now decided to stay in town. Their father hurries from the room to retrieve something and comes back with their mother's wedding gown for Tess. Jane is mortified and heartbroken as Tess picks up the dress saying how honored she is to be able to wear it (regardless of her earlier comments on how she disliked the dress). Noticing Jane's face, she says "I know that you wanted to wear mom's dress first..." to which Jane replies "It's fine--it's what she would have wanted." In the next scene, Jane is walking with her sister as her sister asks her about countless details that Jane has been taking care of alone. As they walk, Tess mentions that she and George are getting married in the same boathouse as their parents, in 3 weeks (that was the only opening and she didn't really want to wait, anyway). Jane is visibly upset since that was her plan for her wedding, but she defers again. Tess, aware that she has no real friends, asks Jane if Casey would be a bridesmaid because "she's pretty and won't throw off the asthetics". Jane, Tess and George visit a custom cake bakery and Jane uses her previous wedding business with the baker to get him to agree to make the wedding cake in 3 weeks. As George walks away to take a call, Kevin (Marsden) walks in and introduces himself as Malcolm Doyle, the Commitments writer who had contacted them about writing a feature on their wedding. Jane is stunned by this revelation and accuses him of lying to her, which he denies. Tess tells Kevin that Jane is his number one fan and that she saves his articles which only embarrasses Jane (and entertains Kevin) more. Jane pulls him aside and asks if he is really as cynical as he had acted in the past about weddings and he says yes which makes Jane feel like she "just found out her favorite song was written about a sandwich." In the next scene, Kevin arrives at Jane's apartment where she is doing dishes alone. Jane refuses to let him in but he insists that he needs to talk to all of the bride's friends and family for the article and gets her to open the door for "Tess and George." Kevin proceeds to turn on his tape recorder and ask a few questions about Jane's feelings on the matter (which she gives begrudgingly) when he notices a hall closet that is bursting open with a variety of colorful fabrics. When he asks Jane what is in the closet, she runs to close the door but Kevin manages to pry them open to reveal every bridesmaid dress and accessory that Jane has ever been asked to wear. Kevin insists that they are all hideous and Jane picks out one that she thinks is becoming and goes to her room to try it on. When she shows Kevin, he snaps a picture of her and she ultimately agrees that it's not that becoming. Entertained, Jane proceeds to put on every bridesmaid dress as a sort of informal fashion show for Kevin (who takes a picture of each outfit) including such horrible themes dresses as "Gone With the Wind" and a full SCUBA outfit for an underwater ceremony. Once all of the dresses have been shown, Kevin counts the photos (27 different dresses) and asks why she keeps them and suffers through them. Jane says that she has had some good times in those dresses and she wears them because one day those people will be there for her on her wedding. Saddened by the thought of her own wedding, Jane asks to just finish the interview and puts away the dresses. Back at the office, Kevin's editor asks for the article which he has not yet finished. He sends her his working draft and she loves it, guarenteeing him a spot on that Sunday's front page of the section. Kevin begs that it be postponed for a week as he tries to delve deeper into Jane's person with the editor commmenting "if I didn't know you better I would think that you have developed a little crush". Kevin thanks her for finally conceding and agreeing to postpone the feature. Jane arrives at George's apartment looking for her sister to finalize the guest list but Tess won't let her in. When she barges in, she finds that Tess has hired Pedro to clean the apartment which would infuriate George so Pedro has agreed to keep it a secret as he wants the afterschool job. Jane and Kevin are in a store registering Tess for her wedding gifts. As they scan items, Kevin comments on Tess' outrageous abuse of her sister's services and mocks Jane's comments on the meaning of the gifts ("and this is the vase that Tess will put the flowers that George brings home just because"). As Kevin makes her progressively more angry with his cynicism, Jane says that she believes that he hates weddings because he hasn't found someone to love or he was dumped at the altar. Kevin says "bingo" as his wife had run away with his roommate from college after their big ceremony. Jane, feeling horrible about being right that his wedding had ended so poorly and made him cynical, asks if he would like to find all the ugliest things in the store and "register Tess for them." Jane receives a call from George to come preview the menu for the wedding with him since Tess would be getting her hair done and unable to attend. Jane happily joins and almost tells George of Tess' lies but decides against it at the last minute. Kevin calls Tess asking for Jane, and Tess tells him where she is (at the boathouse). Kevin shows up and sees Jane laughing with George and instantly realizes her feelings for him. He tries to sneak away but George sees him and Kevin volunteers to go with Jane to pick up vintage table linens in another city since George has to make dinner with his parents (Jane tries to get George to come instead, but Kevin is insisitent.) In the car driving in the rain, Kevin confronts Jane with her "sick" love triangle--helping her sister plan her wedding to the man she is secretly in love with. Jane becomes angry at Kevin's comments and begins to drive haphazardly. Kevin begins to get nervous at their speed and warns that they might hydroplane, only annoying Jane more. Of course, they hydroplance off of a curve, down an incline and into a tree where there car is stuck in the mud. They run in the rain to a nearby bar and find that the phones are out and they can't get cell phone reception. Kevin, deciding that there is nothing left to do but wait out the storm, sits at the bar and orders a drink. Jane joins him, defeated, and insists that she will only drink one. Next scene, and presumably many drinks later, Jane asks Kevin about a specific wedding that he had written about where the ceremony was held on the anniversary of the parents' deaths and the brother was flown in from Afghanistan for it. Kevin claims he doesn't remember it and Jane insists that he must and he's doing it all to appear "mysterious and sexy". Kevin does tell her that his favorite part of weddings is watching the groom's face while the bride comes down the aisle (which Jane had earlier recounted to George as her favorite part). Suddenly, the juke box comes on playing Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets". Kevin begins to sing with the juke box but Jane laughingly points out that he is not singing any of the right words, so she tries (only further butchering the lyrics). Suddenly, they are both standing on the bar in front of a crowd of people dancing and singing the chorus of the song at the top of their lungs. At the end of the song, the frenzied crowd helps Kevin down, who turns to help Jane off of the bar. When she comes down in his arms he admits that he "cried like a baby" at the wedding she had mentioned and they start to kiss. Next, you see them back in the car as Jane works to take Kevin's shirt off and they fall into the back seat. The next morning, Kevin brings coffee to the car and they both walk to a nearby diner for breakfast while they wait for the towtruck. At breakfast, one of the people from the night before point them out as "Bennie and the Jets" and they laugh about the night before. The waitress comes to give them their orders and she notices Jane and says, "Hey, you're that girl!" Jane nods and says, "Yes, I'm Bennie, he's the Jets" with a smile but the waitress rushes to the counter and brings back a newspaper. Jane takes the paper and sees her pictures all of the feature story about her 27 bridesmaid experiences. Kevin suddenly realizes that his editor ran the piece early and tries to explain. Jane, upset, leaves the diner and slaps Kevin soundly in the face for using her. Back at the paper, Kevin demands to know why his editor ran the piece early since he had not even had time to tell Jane about the piece yet. The editor insists that he should be thanking her, and walks away. Jane arrives back at her apartment where her sister is fuming over the article which portrayed her as "Bridezilla". She yells at Jane and answers the phone, which turns out to be Kevin calling, and she screams at him. She then storms out of the apartment yelling, "You might want to alert traffic control because Bridezilla's on the loose!" The next day at work, Jane throws away a stack of missed call notices from Kevin and Casey comes over to talk. Jane asks that they not talk about the article when George calls her into his office. She immediately begins apologizing, but George insists that it is alright and he only wanted to make sure that she was okay. Grateful, Jane nods and George says, "No one reads that section anyway" even though it is the most popular section of the paper (as mentioned earlier in the movie). Jane arrives at a bridal boutique where Tess is standing in her underwear with a checklist. Tess says that she has decided to forgive Jane. But insists that at that night's rehearsal dinner, Jane read off of a script that Tess wrote to go along with a powerpoint. Jane agrees and the store's employees come in with Tess' wedding dress. Tess puts it on and it is a completely different dress than their mother's. Confused, Jane asks where their mother's dress is and Tess explains that she had it incorporated into the new dress and the remaining pieces of their mother's dress have been saved for Jane. Enraged, Jane demands that Tess tell George the truth about everything or she will. Tess says that Jane would never hurt her sister like that and Jane replies that Tess is no longer her sister she's just the girl who broke her heart and cut up her mother's wedding dress. The next scene, Jane comes into the rehearsal dinner and Tess hurriedly checks to make sure that Jane is still going to read only from the script. Jane nods and then goes to cue-up the powerpoint for the dinner. As everyone sits, Jane begins the powerpoint that she put together reading only the script, however, the powerpoint has pictures of Tess eating a large plate of barbeque with her engagement ring on, picking a cat up awkwardly by the legs, acting afraid of Gatsby (George's dog), etc. At the end of the show, Tess tries to explain as Casey pulls Pedro up to the front to try and save the dinner. Pedro, however, talks about how great Tess is for agreeing to help him start his cleaning business and letting him clean George's apartment. George leaves the room and breaks off the engagement while Jane feels horrible about what she has done. Going outside to escape the chaos she created, Jane tries not to cry as Kevin, who had been lurking in the back of the rehearsal dinner, comes outside to comfort her. He apologizes for hurting her and said that he came to ask forgiveness and to be there for her, which was something that he had not wanted to do for a long time. He gives Jane a palm pilot to replace her outdated filofax and then walks away, saying that he would never bother her again. Jane is in her father's store telling him that Tess will never forgive her as Tess comes in, lured by her father. The two girls have a heated argument over the situation where Tess accuses Jane of always feeling like she had to fill in as Tess' mother and Jane accuses Tess of always having everything. Tess admits to wanting to be more like Jane and that she was in town because she had been fired in Milan and her Italian boyfriend had dumped her. She had seen George as a way to start over and had jumped at the chance. Finally coming to an understanding, the two girls hug and try to decide what they are going to do now. Later that night, Jane receives a call from George asking her to fill in as his date for a business function since his recent break-up has left him without time to get a date. She shows up to the office and George, who is grateful that everything came out since the entire affair had been so rushed, asks Jane to pull up his presentation before they go since he can't find it. When she agrees and hurries to his computer, George says, "That's what I love about you, Jane, you always say yes." Suddenly, Jane stands up and looks at George with realization. She quits and explains to him that the only reason she had stayed for so long was because she had become comfortable and thought she was in love with him. George silences her with a kiss that Jane actually says has no spark. They try again but the kiss still falls short of her expectations. Just as they are standing there, her new palm pilot rings (it's a phone too) and the ringtone is "Bennie and the Jets". Smiling widely, she apologizes to George and runs from the office. Jane goes to the newspaper looking for Kevin and finds out that he is covering his last wedding (having been promoted out of Commitments due to the phenomenal response to his feature article). Jane hurries to the pier where the wedding ship is getting ready to leave. She jumps onto the ship and walks through the crowd looking for Kevin. As she searches, the bride notices her and knows her from the article and is excited that she is at her wedding (as though she is a celebrity). Jane quickly fills the eager bride in on the situation and the bride pulls her to the stage and gives her a microphone where she is spolighted for all of the guests to see. She confesses her feelings for Kevin who is watching in shock from the middle of the crowd. When she finishes, she awkwardly leaves the stage and tries to make her way to the back of the boat where Kevin stops her and they kiss. The next, and final scene, is Kevin and Jane's beach wedding. Tess is welcoming guests where George and Pedro arrive. Tess introduces herself like they had never met and says she "has a hamburger a day" and her "idea of a pet is a rock". They laugh together and George sits down. The wedding begins and Jane joins Kevin at the altar with a voice over saying that he was looking at her just as she'd always hoped her groom would. Kevin asks if it was as good as she had hoped for to which she replies, "No more, much more." The camera pans out to show that after Tess and Casey, 27 brides stand along the boardwalk each wearing the bridesmaid's dress from their respective weddings.

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