So you know when sometimes you just want a light hearted film, with little to think about and maybe not even that memorable, well my dad has quite a lot of films like that, they're good fun, and I always try and pick up films like this when I get the chance because I always find the films that are left until later to watch in my collection are the high brow arty films, or the 3 hour epics. So It was with an open mind that I borrowed 27 Dresses to see what the craic was.
Katherine Heigl (cropping up in my viewing again) plays the perpetual bridesmaid, in fact, as you could guess from the title, she has been a bridesmaid 27 times. She is also secretly in love with her Boss. Her sister comes to town and her boss and she hit it off immediately and become engaged to be wed, with Heigl set to be the Bridesmaid... we've all been there. Enter James Marsden, playing a writer for the weddings section of a local newspaper, he's also an annoyance on Heigl; and as such you immediately assume they will end up together.
You see, this film is anything but surprising, and that's not necessarily a terrible thing, because in this case I wasn't expecting to be surprised or shocked, I just wanted a light hearted rom-com with a bit of heart. And that is what you get. You get some nice shots (the last one in the film in particular is a treat), you get some fairly funny moments and you get Heigl one step closer to making funny films like she should be.
So if you want a film with a slight sibling rivalry, a broken heart, some romance, a father not sure what to do with his kids, some drunken singing in a bar and some horrible bridesmaids dresses then this is for you, it probably won't blow your mind, but it won't make you want to kill yourself out of despair either. It's like Ronseal. Does what it says on the tin.
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