Johnson Thomas 

27 dresses

Direction: Anne Fletcher
Cast: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Edward Burns, Malin Akerman, Judy Greer
Rating: **
 
Here’s a rom-com cum chic flick that happens to play cute but is amazingly dim-witted.Director Anne Fletcher uses Aline Brosh McKenna’s (Laws of Attraction, Three to Tango) formulaic screenplay to fashion this paint by numbers comedy.

The storyline is pretty stale. Jane (Katherine Heigl), 27 times the bridesmaid and never the bride, is in love with her boss (Ed Burns). But the boss falls for her lovely blonde sister Tess (Malin Akerman) and a heartbroken Jane is forced to rue the fact that she will have to don the bridesmaid costume for a record 28th time.

Luckily for her, Kevin (James Marsden) a lifestyle reporter who is assigned to cover the wedding falls in love with her. Will Jane get to be a bride after all?

27 Dresses answers that question in sugary sweet fashion, generating tripe comedy within clichés that appear at predictable intervals.

The screenplay is severely lacking in surprises, dialogue is rarely acerbic and the dramatic tension is minimal.

Katherine Heigl, the in-the-news actress from Knocked Up gives Jane all the energy she can muster while James Marsden’s Kevin works as an effective enough foil.

However, the low-glow chemistry between the two is just not enough to make this piece of girlie fluff altogether engaging!