27 Dresses

Diana and I watched 27 dresses on Sunday night. It was OK. But I can't thing of a more contrived love story (except August Rush). This was fun and cute, but you knew the whole time who was going to get together and what would happen. By the end of the movie Diana was guessing (correctly) the next line in the movie.

**SPOILER ALERT**
Girl (Heigl) is a control freak, so all of her friends, and even some that aren't, want her to be a maid of honor at their weddings. She cannot say no. She even goes as far as being the maid of honor at two different weddings on the same night.

She meets a guy at the wedding and brushes him off. You later find out he is the writer of the Wedding announcements for the newspaper, but he does not really believe in love. The Heigl character is in love with her boss, who just uses her as an assistant (which is what she is). Heigl character's sister (who is a model) comes to town, meets the boss, they fall in love. The sister completely lies about who she is and what she does to get the guy.

Of course, the sister asks Heigl to be maid of honor, and things get crazy from here. Heigl has to do all the planning. The newspaper guy is following Heigl around and writing a story on her being a bridesmaid 27 times. He lies to Heigl about what he is writing the story on. He is developing a crush on Heigl and she kind of likes him. He uses that to get a photo shoot of her in all her 27 dresses. The more he learns about her the more he likes her. It all leads to a night with Heigl and the newspaper boy singing Bennie and the Jets in a bar, getting drunk, and getting it on.

The next morning the news story publishes and Heigl is pissed. They break up, but they were never really together. Now that Heigl is pissed at the newspaper boy, she is mad at the world. She ruins her sisters wedding while at the rehearsal and she gives a speech about all the lies the sister is telling the boss.

Here comes the end...but I am not going to tell you. You need to rent it for yourself if you like what you have read so far. If not, you really won't care about the rest of the movie.

**END SPOILER**

I give 27 dresses 3 out of 5 stars. It was OK. IT could have been better and it also could have been a lot worse, a lot, lot worse. But is couls have been so much better as well. The only good news is that there will not be a sequel.