27 Dresses Reviews
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hops along merrily enough thanks to an engaging turn from Heigl, who's nailed the unusually-pretty-girl-next-door act while embracing physical and risqué comedy.
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| Original Score: 3/6
27 Dresses is so flimsy it gives froth a bad name.
| Original Score: 2/4
Katherine Heigl carries 27 Dresses when all else fails, which it does with great regularity.
Talk about setting the woman's movement back by about a half-century.
The biggest disappointment of 27 Dresses is that it inhabits a Harlequin romance New York City, one remarkably short on homosexuals and divorce.
Certainly Heigl fares better in less formulaic fare, such as Judd Apatow's irreverent Knocked Up, but she does raise the level of this chick flick from bland to mildly entertaining.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Anyone who has the slightest doubt about where this movie is heading probably leads a full and rich life that doesn't include watching romantic comedies like My Best Friend's Wedding, which covered this same ground with a lot more verve and humour.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Well, if you can figure out how this story ends, you've probably got better things to do than watch 27 Dresses.
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| Original Score: 2/4
All the plot elements that we're encouraged to care about in 27 Dresses resolve in a dud, and the only thing that feels good about the feel-good finish is that it means the movie's over.
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| Original Score: 1/4
It's not one for the ages, but this comedy about the 'perpetual bridesmaid' suggests a romantic marriage between star and audience that could last and last.
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| Original Score: 3/5
27 Dresses makes the point that modern American weddings are all pretty much alike. The same could be said about modern American romantic comedies.
| Original Score: 2/5
Anyone who has seen a chick flick knows what is going to happen next, and next, and next...
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| Original Score: 2/4
Anyone watching this appealing actress march toward the inevitable will wonder why she's settling for so much less than she deserves.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The romantic comedy 27 Dresses provides [Heigl] with a chance to flex her comedic muscles, and her whip-smart delivery and timing are an indication that we may at last have a worthy heroine for the otherwise shaky future of romcom.
| Original Score: 3/4
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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Katherine Heigl is a movie star. Even in a fluffy romantic comedy like 27 Dresses, she lights up the screen.
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| Original Score: B-
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
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.
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| Original Score: C+
My favorite performer in the movie, Judy Greer, is a deadpan killah as Jane's co-worker. She and Heigl deserve fresher stuff.
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| Original Score: 2/4
27 Dresses is one heck of a happy date movie. Smiling faces are guaranteed on all seen exiting when the credits finally do roll here.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Eventually the contrivances win out, but the cast keeps it all watchable.
There'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.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Familiarity may be the central attraction of both weddings and romantic comedies, but the creators of 27 Dresses have taken a good thing too far.
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| Original Score: 2/4
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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
A romantic comedy that -- despite her [Star Katherine Heigl] undeniable, apple-cheeked appeal -- sags like a day-old bouquet.
Too bad they didn't accessorize it with more creativity.
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| Original Score: 2/4
27 Dresses dutifully privileges its formulaic plot over its stick-figure characters, slapping a happy ending on a setup that, say, Happiness director Todd Solondz could have gone to town on.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Under Anne Fletcher's mechanistic direction, 27 Dresses ticks along as briskly and transparently as a clock with a see-through face.
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| Original Score: 2/4
If 27 Dresses were part of a wedding reception, it wouldn't be the bouquet toss, but it wouldn't be the Chicken Dance, either. It's more like the cake: mass-produced, maybe a little too sweet but enjoyable all the same.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
They're no Hepburn and Tracy, but Heigl -- her quivering double chin a welcome sight in a profession of dangerously low BMI -- and Marsden skillfully find the believable traits in their characters and turn them into some semblance of adults.
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| Original Score: 3/6
A forgettable, formulaic comedy so predictable that seeing it and skipping it are the exact same thing.
27 Dresses is an illustration of what can result when the filmmakers possess a solid understanding of the romantic comedy formula and decide never to stray from it by one iota.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
27 Dresses is so chock full of romantic-comedy clichés, it almost plays like a parody.
It's white-lace porn for girls of every age, and the way that it revels in that get-me-to-the-altar mood, to the point of making anyone who isn't getting married feel like a loser, is the picture's key selling point.
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| Original Score: C+
Frothy, funny and formulaic, this pleasantly predictable romantic comedy may be viewed as another step forward for Katherine Heigl.
While Heigl is terrific, this uninspired romantic comedy is considerably less so.
