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From:Edward Burns , Melora Hardin , Katherine Heigl , Brian Kerwin , James Marsden , 27 DRESSES - WIDESCREEN (DVD MOVIE) , Anne Fletcher , 20th Century Fox ,
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4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 Rental highly recommended before purchase, 2008-05-27
Renting before buying is highly recommended for this middle of the road female dominated and oriented film. The story is relatively bland and predictable and the performances seemed to have matched that level too.
Katherine Heigl looks nice as the constant bridesmaid but the idea that she hasn't established that special relationship or that she just can't find the courage to tell the person that she most lusts after that she wants a relationship seems wrong. Never mind the idea that just as she is working up the courage to make her move her sister (Melora Hardin, most recently co-starring in The Heart Break Kid alongside Ben Stiller) comes in and ruins the opportunity.
Edward Burns makes an appearance here as Heigl's boss, and Brian Kerwin appears as the father of the two female leads. Both are servicable in the roles they are asked to play, but either could just as easily be forgotten as they seem to mostly blend into the background and are minimized as the focus remains primarily on the female characters.
James Marsden (Enchanted, Hairspray, Superman Returns, the X-men films, more...) has a slightly bigger role here, but he too is primarily relegated to the background.
In the end the dresses themselves, 27 different bridesmaid dresses, make perhaps the biggest and flashiest co-stars in this film. Heigl puts on a bit of a fashion show in the long line of hideous (intended to be so) bridesmaid dresses, along with several flashback scenes that show the dresses in character in all of the weddings that Heigl had been a part of.
This isn't a bad film, but it certainly tilts heavily into 'Chick Flick' territory, more so than leaves it able to be recommended for date night (unless you want to do a double feature and make the second feature a testosterone laden male dominated feature). 2.5 stars (if half stars were possible). More for fans of Heigl, but not much more.
Picture quality on the Blu-ray is nice, audio quality and volume levels consistent and perfectly acceptable. Disc includes a few deleted scenes (mostly forgettable and not really noticably absent) and a few minor featurettes. Not really enough to make the disc that much more valuable.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 pretty blah, 2008-05-26
My title pretty much explains it. Katherine Heigl is pretty forgetable in this movie as she just seems so ordinary and boring. There's no Oomph in this movie, it's just blah.
hold off on buying, 2008-05-25
I rented this movie rather than purchase it after reading the reviews. I'm glad I didn't buy it. The movie was okay, but I was overall disappointed. I thought the Tess person, the sister, was really a poor actress; simply put, trying to copy Carmeron Diaz's acting style. I lacked pizazz and was just an okay movie. Won't be buying this one.
 Lighten Up, 2008-05-24
I've seen a lot of reviews of this movie and it seems like the reviewers are too tense and grim. Of course we knew everything would work out in the end. So what? Whatever happened to the idea that watching a movie could be just a lot of fun. So it wasn't grim and tense with a heavy "message" loaded in! It was just nice. It was just fun. It had characters in it that you could care about.
 Cute Entertainment., 2008-05-23
Wedding Planner fans have already probably seen 27 Dresses and loved it. The two films share a love of wedding details and the romance of the moments...all the moments leading up to the trip home from the honeymoon.
I happen to fall somewhere in that category so I liked 27 Dresses. Some of it I liked a lot. Jane and Kevin have a sweet and spicy relationship that comes off as believable. Katherine Heigl also plays the part of a martyr with some great facial comedic moments. I liked the flavor and personality of the film and had fun watching it. I appreciated that I didn't have to watch sex, though I heard a bit about it, and there were behind the scenes moments.
I didn't care for Jane's sister Tess and didn't buy into the passive aggressiveness of the relationship and Tess's extreme selfishness. I didn't buy Jane's long-term crush on George either. Jane's best friend claims to have a defective moral compass and demonstrates that throughout the film. Don't get me wrong, she's funny, but it's not humor for your great-grandma or your ten year old. There are several s-words sprinkled throughout and an F-Bomb is muffled during a massive Jane meltdown.
Overall, 27 Dresses is a fun movie that falls into the PG13 category for a reason. It is one of those that a group of women can pop in while they gorge on chocolate and popcorn and paint their nails (hopefully not at the same time). Or a fun date night if you don't get embarrassed with innuendo and outright crude comments. Good for a few laughs and a couple of sighs.
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