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27 Dresses (4/10)

by Tony Medley

You want a chick flick? I’ll give you a chick flick. Directed by Anne Fletcher, written by Aline Brosh McKenna, edited by Priscilla Nedd-Friendly, oh, need I go on. It’s not so much that just about everything about this movie is female, it’s that it is so amazingly derivative. Everything’s been done before and it’s oh, so predictable.

Jane (Katherine Heigl) is an older sister of self-centered Tess (Malin Akerman), who is supposed to be beautiful and sexy. I thought she was neither. Jane has a crush on her boss, George (Edward Burns). Even so, she introduces him to Tess and they apparently fall in love. Jane has been a bridesmaid 27 times and can’t say no, so Tess leads her around by her little finger. Enter Kevin (James Marsden), a newspaper writer assigned to the wedding, who falls for Jane, who can’t see it.

This is a simple story that’s been told over and over again. Why, then, does it take a very long one hour forty-seven extremely squirmy minutes to tell it again? I might have liked it better if the first hour hadn’t lasted an eternity.

The film ends with dismal cinematography (Peter James). Throughout, Heigl is filmed as a beautiful woman. But in the final wedding scenes she looks almost ugly because of the way she’s lit and photographed. Her nose looks as if she has just gone 15 rounds with Mike Tyson. In fact, thinking about it for awhile, she looks a little like Mike in these scenes.

I can’t see any reason to make this movie, but if Fox did decide to make it, they should have hired someone who knew how to edit to cut it down to something around 80 minutes. Then it might have been good enough to at least rate a 5.