Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-07-28
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 107 minutes

Customer Reviews

Not even on a plane
This was shown on a plane I was on - usually you watch the in-flight movie to the end as there's not all that much to do. With this one - I just couldn't. Sorry, might be ok if this is your first chick-flick ever (even for a chick movie it is dreadful) or if you're thirteen. As for my opinion the acting was dreadful, the conversation terrible, the script forseeable (even for a chick-flick) and just no point to the movie. I usually like chick-flicks for light entertainment - here the entertainment was missing (towards the end most of the passengers had tossed their headsets)... Would give it NO STARS if possible.

One of the best chick flicks ever created.
This movie has got to be one of the best girlie films ever. It is funny, moving with brilliant acting, especially by Katherine Heigl. This is the kind of film that you wouldn't really see with your parents but would be perfect for a slumber party or if you're hanging out with your friends. Yes, it is predicatable, but arent't all romantic films?
In my opinion, definatley one for the movie cupboard.

Frustratingly Flawed
I love rom-coms. I loved The Devil Wears Prada (even though I got blackmailed into seeing it, when I did I found it to be very good indeed. And I love Katherine Heigl. I think she is fantastically talented. It is for these reasons that I was looking forward to McKenna's newly penned work 27 Dresses. Unfortunately in spite of Heigl's best efforts this film frustrates more than it pleases. Marsden is solid, but the depth of his character isn't. The dialogue is snappy to begin with but when it comes to any emotional depth it seems that the fast forward button is pressed. We never really understand why Heigl's character eventually falls for Marsden's after so much verbal sniping and the 'explanatory' scene is patronising and hideously contrived. Heigl is superb, though, and raises this two star film up to three. Her comic timing is brilliant, as is her repartee with Malin Akerman. The opening ten minutes are wonderful. Unfortunately in the end, good ideas and an encouraging start give way to sloppy plot and little focus, with a seeming emphasis of the slick and snappy over a heart that would make this movie at least twice as good.

The 'Making of...' serves to throw up the ideas that McKenna was trying to get across - a romantic relationship that didn't start the easy way and as such serves as a nice comparison to a final product that never quite delivers where it needs to.

Shame.