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Reviews Counted:142
Fresh:57
Rotten:85
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: The filmmakers perfectly follow the well-worn romantic comedy formula, rendering 27 Dresses clichéd and mostly forgettable.
Theatrical Release:Jan 18, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $76,624,274
Synopsis: KNOCKED UP's Katherine Heigl stars in this romantic comedy about a selfless young woman who is trapped in the role of perennial bridesmaid. Set in New York City, the film opens with Jane (Heigl)... [More]
Starring: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Akerman, Edward Burns
Director: Anne Fletcher
The clichés, like the dresses, sashay in and out of this predictable if nicely fluffy chick-flick composite, which manages to crank out a few decent laughs when it isn't wasting time on a pair of deadly supporting characters.
Katherine Heigl is a movie star. Even in a fluffy romantic comedy like 27 Dresses, she lights up the screen.
Sorry, Sandra. Too bad, Meg. The mantle of movie cute queen has just been passed to Katherine Heigl, starring as the romantically challenged New Yorker of 27 Dresses.
Calling 27 Dresses predictable is putting it mildly. From the opening scene, it's painfully obvious exactly where the film is going and how everything is going to turn out.
The romantic comedy 27 Dresses will work best for people who have never seen a romantic comedy. If you have, you might find it amusing to tally up the steals -- I mean, homages.
My favorite performer in the movie, Judy Greer, is a deadpan killah as Jane's co-worker. She and Heigl deserve fresher stuff.
Top Critic27 Dresses is one heck of a happy date movie. Smiling faces are guaranteed on all seen exiting when the credits finally do roll here.
Eventually the contrivances win out, but the cast keeps it all watchable.
Top CriticThere's a decent movie in here somewhere. But the director and screenwriter have made a ditsy single-chick movie with the alluring geometry of a screwball comedy.
Top CriticPredictable but utterly engaging, 27 Dresses will likely be remembered as the film that made Katherine Heigl an A-list star.
I have seen the future, and it looks like TBS. Maybe TNT. I predict a happy union between 27 Dresses and cable TV, forever rerunning with commercial breaks tailor-made for laundry-loading and sandwich-making.
With a number of other stars in the lead role, 27 Dresses would have been unbearable. It's a testament to Heigl's ability that's only not-so-good.
[H]erewith the latest example of whalebone-corseted conformity masquerading as a postfeminist statement on modern independent womanhood...
No self-respecting screenwriter would put a Hugh Grant character through what Heigl's endures here. I don't blame McKenna: I blame a studio system that figures if it worked for Julia Roberts, it will work for Heigl.
Top CriticFamiliarity may be the central attraction of both weddings and romantic comedies, but the creators of 27 Dresses have taken a good thing too far.
Top CriticYou won't miss much if you choose to let 27 Dresses come and go this month -- except perhaps the unassuming starring debut of a comedienne who, I suspect, will soon become a Hollywood powerhouse.
Katherine Heigl and James Marsden bring out each other's best, coaxing a joyous, rambunctious spontaneity from one another. Sadly, the lazy, stagnant script shackles them.
The cast makes it work.
Plays like it thinks it's the first romantic comedy the audience has ever seen.
...a genial, consistently watchable effort that undoubtedly benefits substantially from the uniformly compelling performances.
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