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27 Dresses (2008)

Rating: 2 Stars (out of 4)

Race Against the Frock

By Jeffrey M. Anderson

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Katherine Heigl and James Marsden bring out each other's best, coaxing a joyous, rambunctious spontaneity from one another. Sadly, the lazy, stagnant script for 27 Dresses shackles them; the stodgy, slavishly obeyed rules of romantic comedy require them to be apart -- or fighting -- for most of the movie. Jane (Heigl) moons about having been a bridesmaid 27 times without getting her own wedding. Her crush on her boss (Edward Burns) is thwarted when her supermodel sister (Malin Akerman) turns up, and a happy-go-lucky newspaperman (Marsden), stuck in the "taffeta ghetto" of the Style section, annoys her. Judy Greer plays the wisecracking best friend. Aline Brosh McKenna wrote the script; all the edge of her previous work, The Devil Wears Prada, is dulled.

AskMen.com: 27 Dresses

Starring: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Judy Greer, Edward Burns, Malin Akerman, Melora Hardin, Brian Kerwin, Maulik Pancholy
Written by: Aline Brosh McKenna
Directed by: Anne Fletcher
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language, some innuendo and sexuality
Running Time: 107 minutes
Date: January 18, 2008