Watching 27 Dresses is like eating at your favorite chain restaurant: deliciously decadent and perfectly predictable. In typical chick-flick fashion, the audience knows what is on the menu before even entering the theater. For an appetizer, the film serves up a little "boy meets and falls in love with girl." As a main course, the audience enjoys a hearty helping of "boy loses said girl." The dessert course flawlessly caps the meal with a sugary dose of "boy wins girl back." But no matter how many times you have eaten that same meal, it never ceases to satisfy when prepared correctly.
Every chick flick starts with a dream. Katherine Heigl's character, Jane, dreams of the perfect wedding. She wants to get married at the Central Park boathouse in her mother's wedding dress. More importantly, she wants to marry her extremely attractive, incredibly successful boss George. Wasting away the years in which she pines for George, Jane lives out her fantasy wedding by being the perfect bridesmaid at 27 different weddings. Jane's dream world is shattered, however, when George falls for her annoyingly gorgeous younger sister. Enter James Marsden's cynical reporter, Kevin, to pick up the pieces. Kevin finds himself instantly intrigued by Jane, and chases her until he finds out the story behind her 27 dresses, which he promptly writes into a career-launching feature for the newspaper he works for - without telling her, of course. But Kevin, as any good love interest does, comes to see more to Jane than her obsession with weddings. The two go from fighting like cats and dogs to bonding over Elton John's "Benny and the Jets" and massive amounts of alcohol. Move over George, Jane's got a new man to let her down now.
The preceding paragraph is all you need to know to predict the ending of 27 Dresses, so skeptics beware. If twists and surprises are supremely important, do not go see this movie. But if you are a hopeless romantic who wants to see love conquer all for the millionth time, 27 Dresses is perfection. Heigl brings life to the age-old heroine, and Marsden brings boyish charm to the screen with every flash of his ice-blue eyes. The chemistry between the two is as undeniable as the ending of the movie. Heigl embodies every girl who has ever dreamed of wearing the white princess dress, and Marsden represents the man standing at the end of the aisle every time. B
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