Customer Reviews
fantastic chick flick - By: Tammy Sandy, 12 Jul 2008 
All I can say is watch it!!! Absolutely fab!! loved it!! I cryed, laughed a typical boy meets girl, if you love the typical chick flick & a wedding theme this is for you!! I am definately adding this to my dvd collection. enjoy!!!!
Funny, sweet and touchingly warm - By: Helena, 09 Jul 2008 
I don't want to repeat the movie plot, etc., etc... to summarize, it is a funny, sweet & touchingly warm. I like the movie, the actors/actresses, & the ending. Go & watch it with your girl friends or boy friends or any friends. Have fun!
27 dresses - By: S. R. Young, 09 Jul 2008 this is a very good movie i have the american dvd if you a katherine heigl fan as i am you will enjoy this film
Sweet, frothy & fun. - By: Angela Speck, 22 Jun 2008 Assessed within its genre - fluffy romantic comedies - this is one of the best I've seen in a long time. Don't expect an arcane glimpse into the nature of love, but rather, a slightly far-fetched love story about a woman who is obsessed with weddings, yet never gets to be the bride. Enter the cynical journalist who rubs her up the wrong way but could just be a super bloke (and is played by super-sexy James Marsden), the boss she thinks she's in love with, & the obligatory selfish sister who gets it on with said boss, to the expense of our lovely heroine, Katherine Heigel.
A few slightly weepy moments, a great drunken scene singing "Benny & the Jets" & of course, they alll live happily ever after....
Definitely recommended!
27 Dresses - By: C. MacLellan, 03 Jun 2008 
Weddings & romantic comedies have much in common. Everyone knows the routine of both off by heart. There will be slushy moments, peppered with moments of misfortune, & some tears for the emotionallly unstable. And both, despite being pitched as different from any other you've ever seen, end up entirely predictable.
Jane (Katherine Heigl) is the old cliché personified - always the bridesmaid, never a bride. And she's got the 27 dresses crammed into her wardrobe to prove it. She is also heartbroken when her younger sister (Malin Akerman) swoops in on boss George (Edward Burns), who Jane has been pinning over for years. While reluctantly organizing their wedding, she is completely oblivious to the interest wedding journalist (yes, you heard that right, wedding journalist) Kevin (James Marsden) as been paying in her & her sad obsession.
The original story comes from Aline Brosh McKenna, who adapted The Devil Wears Prada for the big screen. She keeps the same sassy dialogue as seen in her previous film, & the love/hate sniping between the two leads is fun, though slightly laborious at times - why does Jane continue to snub the approaches of dishy journalist Kevin?
However, McKenna then returns to the old formula for a romantic comedies, cramming in alll the clichés you'd expect- the wise-cracking, straight talking friend (Judy Greer), the mad dash at the end of the film, & an entirely predictable final line. She is also responsible for one of the sickliest lines you're likely to ever hear at the cinema. When talking to Jane about her obsession, journalist Kevin tells her, "You'd rather focus on other people's Kodak moment than make one of you own!" - please feel free to vomit. The development of the relationship between the younger sister & Jane's boss is also non-existent, & simply there to alllow the rest of the plot to develop.
Katherine Heigl, last seen by most film fans crowning in last years Knocked Up, carries off the role well, although it would be nice to see her given something which she can get her acting teeth into. Opposite her James Marsden, who seems to be becoming Hollywood's new Prince Charming after appearances in both Hairspray & Enchanted in the last year, doesn't reallly have to do much apart from smile & swagger on screen. When he enters the film in the first ten minutes, everyone knows how the film is going to end, & it's just a matter of going through the motions for the next 100 minutes. There is an attempt to flesh out his character, but the sub-plot is quickly forgotten about.
Probably the funniest moment of the film is Jane trying on alll 27 dresses from the other weddings she has been to. Ranging for cowboy, to oriental, to underwater, to just plain horrendous, the costume department obviously had a field day. But how does such as down-to-earth women know so many bizarre people.
Cute & fun, but entirely predictable, & by the time you've gone to see you're next rom-com, you'll have forgotten about 27 Dresses.
