Katherine Heigl in 27 Dresses.

27 Dresses takes the old adage, "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride" to extremes. However, the comedy gets lost among all of the extra characters.

Heigl plays that typical Hollywood single girl in the city. You know the type. The one that is gorgeous and sweet beyond belief, yet has an incredibly hard time finding love. She is secretly in love with her boss but her boss has the hots for her sister. Marsden shows up as a reporter and unbeknownst to her, begins writing an article about her for his newspaper.

Harry and Sally each had a single best friend that they confided in as they fell in love. Heigl has her sister, her boss, her best friend, her father, and the man she eventually falls in love with to talk to. That is way too many characters taking up way too much screen time. Although to be fair, Heigl has a really good scene where she finally lets her sister have it, "That was yesterday. Today you're just the bitch who broke my heart and cut up my mother's wedding dress."

Heigl and Marsden are the saving grace in this film. They each exude charm and wit. They have the best lines. "Oh Yeah. I'am a real good caulker." Heigle sarcastically says to Marsden who notes out loud, "Likes caulk." (say it out loud) In another scene Marsden asks her, "What about you? You don't have any needs?" to which Heigl responds, "No. I am Jesus." The best scene is the movie is when they get drunk in a bar. They end up singing, with the entire place doing back up.

If only the movie could have kept the camera on Marsden and Heigl together, could this movie have been any better. As a guy watching a love story I always note the lack of character in the male lead. Marsden simply plays the handsome stranger who only has a couple of lines that reveal any depth. His part should have been expanded on. Heigl is in nearly every scene and thus this love story end up being completely unbalanced.

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Any movie featuring a "fashion show" by one of its characters, needs to be banned from cinemas.

This movie breaks two of my movie rules. No movie (unless it's a musical) should have its characters burst into spontaneous song (and it's even worse if suddenly complete strangers join in). And no movie should ever have a fashion show where one of the characters tries on a string of outfits in a montage. Both of those things happen in this movie.

What I really didn't like about this movie is that I didn't really like anyone in it. Heigl's Jane is a doormat who only has herself to blame for her problems. Her sister dates the guy she has a crush on and then walks all over her, but Jane is the one who lets her by never standing up for herself and speaking her mind. Her boss walks all over her. The guy she ends up with writes an exploitive article about her. All of her friends force her into ugly bridesmaids outfits. She's a complete and utter wimp who doesn't have balls to say no to anyone and is therefore miserable. Big surprise! Sure, sure, at the end of the movie she finally speaks up for herself, but only after her life has been put through the wringer.

As for Marsden, he barely gets any character at all. The depth of his character? He was screwed over by love once and now he's a cynic. That's certainly original enough. Didn't see that coming!

And as far as their falling in love goes, they show no great chemistry together. Their big love scene only happens when they're both drunk. This is another case of a movie saying two people are in love instead of showing us two people in love.

There may be a lot of characters in this movie, but there's very little character development.

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