27 Dresses - 25th January 2011

So yet again we wander off into the realms of film fantasy with another chick flick, this time it's the 2008 film; 27 Dresses.

To be honest, after the first half an hour, I had pretty much written (in my head) the words to this review. It's a typical girl has a crush on boy, she can't tell him how she feels, another girl turns up, takes away boy, another boy, who has been on the sidelines, plays the sympathetic friend, 1st girl falls for sympathetic friend, who then screws it all up.......

......yes, that was pretty much the way of it, but............... it was so much more!

Yes the story was, at first definition, a formulaic chick flick, but the as the plot unfolds, it twists that formula and you start to go off on routes you didn't expect.

So, to put some detail on to that short synopsis;

Katherine Heigl plays Jane Nichols. Jane is a good friend to everybody and never says; "no". She has helped organise weddings for most of her friends, being bridesmaid at quite a few, as a result of this, she has a wardrobe full of bridesmaid dresses, would you like to guess how many?
Jane is also a PA to George (Edward Burns). Jane has a secret crush on George but cannot make her feelings known. Janes' sister; Tess comes to New York to stay with Jane and gets introduced to George and Jane then has to watch, as Tess and George fall for each other.

Cue love interest number 2, in the form of Kevin Doyle, a Wedding journalist who found out Jane's secret of always being the bridesmaid and never the bride, after he found her Filofax. He thinks it is a fascinating story and wants to write an article about it in his paper. He doesn't tell Jane this.

What follows is the process of Tess falling for George with the help of a few white lies to help endear herself to him, their love develops to the point where George proposes.
Which leaves Jane, the girl who can't say; "no" remember, planning her Sisters wedding, which is the wedding that she always wanted for herself, with the man that she wanted.
Her only solace comes in the form of Kevin, and inevitably they fall for each other. However, Kevin is still writing the article about Jane.

All the this comes to a head in the last third of the film where all the little deceits and feelings come out. I shan't spoil the end, needless to say it is a happy one, but the course to it is not glaringly obvious, there's a couple of very minor twists to put you off the scent, but it comes good in the end.

In summation then; the first third of the film had me feeling; we've been here before, it's a bog standard chick flick.
The second third had me doubting my first thoughts.
The last third almost had me choking back the tears!
Yes, the plot and storyline had me sucked in, so I was living the emotional journey that our heorine; Jane was taking.

Cracking movie, Katherine Heigl was fantastic, absolutely gorgeous. James Marsden, who played Kevin was also very good.

You know when you have seen a good film, when you start writing words about it and it just flows out.

This was a good film.