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27 Dresses

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 31 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Romance
Written by: Aline Brosh McKenna
Directed by: Anne Fletcher
Release Date:
Theatrical: January 18, 2008
DVD: April 29, 2008
Running Time: 107 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for language, some innuendo and sexuality
Starring Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Akerman, Ed Burns, Melora Hardin, and Judy Greer
Jane has always been good at taking care of others, but not so much in looking after herself. Her entire life has been about making people happy – and she has a closet full of 27 bridesmaid dresses to prove it. One memorable evening, Jane manages to shuttle between wedding receptions in Manhattan and Brooklyn, a feat witnessed by Kevin, a newspaper reporter who realizes that a story about this wedding junkie is his ticket off the newspaper’s bridal beat. Jane finds Kevin’s cynicism counter to everything she holds dear – namely weddings, and the two lock horns. Further complicating Jane’s once perfectly-ordered life is the arrival of younger sister Tess. Tess immediately captures the heart of Jane’s boss, George. Tess enlists her always-accommodating sister to plan yet another wedding – Tess and George’s – but Jane’s feelings for him lead to shocking revelations…and maybe the beginning of a new life. (20th Century Fox)
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What The Critics Said
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Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Predictable but utterly engaging, 27 Dresses will likely be remembered as the film that made Katherine Heigl an A-list star.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Mostly silly and always frothy, as sugary at times as wedding-cake frosting but tempered with a welcome strain of sour grapes, mostly doled out by the peerless Judy Greer as Jane's cynical, slutty best friend.
Read Full Review >Variety Joe Leydon
Frothy, funny and formulaic, 27 Dresses is a pleasantly predictable romantic comedy that sees Katherine Heigl following “Knocked Up” with smooth moves at the wheel of her first starring vehicle.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
It delivers everything you expect on a timetable you can predict to the minute. It's filmmaking as a cross between a carefully choreographed dance and an elaborate pageant.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
There's not a surprising moment in the movie yet it works in spite of the stale, insipid storyline. That has a lot to do with lead actress Katherine Heigl and a little to do with the glowing embers between her and her co-star, James Marsden.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
27 Dresses is like one of the many bridesmaid dresses featured in the film: frothy, predictable and over the top.
Read Full Review >Empire Angie Errigo
Cute, cute, cute. No bouquets for originality, but it pushes all the buttons of this mini-genre, and Heigl and Marsden ring dem bells.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
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.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
27 Dresses is a movie geared to a pitch of high matrimonial-princess fever.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
The jokes hit about half the time – the best bits have an off-the-cuff feel – and it’s pocked with the kind of rom-com clichés that are practically written in stone (screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna's script for "The Devil Wears Prada" was far sharper).
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
The eerily precise Heigl, who provided confident back-court support as the exile in Guyville also known as “Knocked Up,” has no trouble filling a leading lady’s shoes. She’s just snarky enough to be interesting, and she knows how to take a fall.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
It's a tangle unknotted in the most predictable fashion by Aline McKenna's script, and with little flair from choreographer-turned-director Anne Fletcher.
Read Full Review >Premiere Ryan Stewart
A chick-flick on a sugar high, so giggly-bouncy and nostalgic for the fantasy-girlhood of its audience that the DVD, which should follow relatively quickly, should come packaged in big pink bows and include a coupon for a free pony ride.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Katherine Heigl makes an official bid for America's Sweetheart in her sophomore effort, 27 Dresses, a romantic comedy that -- despite her undeniable, apple-cheeked appeal -- sags like a day-old bouquet.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Almost everything about this starring vehicle for Katharine Heigl feels borrowed from some previous romantic comedy.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
No worse and no better than the majority of chick flicks.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
As the director, Anne Fletcher, methodically cuts back and forth between two weddings, she makes the reasonably insightful, moderately funny point that modern American weddings, however they may strain for individuality and specialness, are all pretty much alike. The problem is that much the same could be said about modern American romantic comedies.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
For most of this romantic comedy, fatuous contrivances run neck and neck with what seem to be authentic observations about repressed sibling rivalry; some of the latter are too painful to be funny, and eventually the contrivances win out, but the cast keeps it all watchable.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
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.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
While Heigl is terrific, this uninspired romantic comedy is considerably less so.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
There are glimpses of the wit McKenna displayed in “Prada,” but these brief gasps of life are quickly suffocated by the inevitable schmaltz.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Marsden's natural charisma is totally wasted in an unlikable role, while Burns doesn't even try to hide his boredom.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Much as I gnashed my teeth during 27 Dresses, I genuinely enjoyed the warmth of Heigl's and Marsden's confident ease. While both might be a few minutes past their star-is-born moment, these troupers with more than 30 years of professional work between them have never shone so brightly. It may sound contradictory, but loved them, hated IT.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
The only bright spot is Marsden, a great actor who's always stuck playing the less-desirable romantic rival (see: "The Notebook," "X-Men," "Superman Returns"). He finally gets the fun-guy role for a change and does everything he can to rip it up. He can only do so much.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Mary Elizabeth Williams
The biggest disappointment of 27 Dresses is that it inhabits a Harlequin romance New York City, one remarkably short on homosexuals and divorce.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Robert Wilonsky
A forgettable, formulaic comedy so predictable that seeing it and skipping it are the exact same thing.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Katherine Heigl carries 27 Dresses when all else fails, which it does with great regularity.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
It gets worse and worse as it goes along and finally ends just as it's becoming unbearable.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.1 (out of 10) based on 47 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
magnesium g gave it a4:
I watched this back to back with Enchanted on an airplane. Guess what? Enchanted, with the talking cartoons was actually the better movie. Strangely both featured an actor / actress from Grey's Anatomy. Apparently having left the safe confines of Seattle Grace, Katherine Heigl is neither as sweet nor as charming as she is on the show. I felt that her character wasn't innocent enough to warrant the sympathy, nor was she sarcastic enough to be funny. The ending was clever, but the rest of the plot was only middling at best. Watch only if your strapped onto a chair for a intercontinental flight, and all other options are exhausted.
Lauren s gave it a6:
It's a cute enough movie to watch every now and then. It wasn't superb, it wasn't terrific, but it wasn't horrible. All in all, it is generally a movie with mixed emotions, but with cute scenes. It's good, but comedy is also limited.
Ec G. gave it a2:
Challenges "The Notebook" for all-time worst movie. The film equivalent of watching Britney Spears manager her life; which is to say, a train wreck. Like a burning accident, however, I watched it till the end.
Morgan F. gave it a6:
Predictable, but surprisingly funny. Used nearly cliche in the book. The end really made me mad though.
Steve T. gave it a10:
Funny how all the crappy people gave it a 4 or less and all the real people did 6 and up. Let's you know just how 'hard' our world has become. We need more movies like this. Calm, sweet, comedic and warm. Predictable, yes....a sweet love story usually means someone will fall in love....but then again we all know what's going to happen in a slasher movie or a end of the world saga. Katherine ROCKS!
Meg G gave it a0:
THE WORST movie ever. Katherine Heigl could not save this film. I watched this film without sound in an airplane and I could see how bad and predictable the film was. Not only was Heigl's character annoying, the actor who plays her best friend has played the best friend role so many times, she's literally unwatchable. I would not even recommend this film as a DVD film to watch, not even if it was on TV for free.
Carol H. gave it a4:
Heigl is not believable as the lonely single girl pining away for her oblivious boss--she's way too attractive! Her monstrous sister suddenly turning into the model of common sense at the end completely turned me off and ruined what little ending there was. Can chick flicks not insult our intelligence???
