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Seen: Saturday 19. April, 2008
Let me start out by saying that I was initially skeptical of this movie.
Sure, the trailer looked like fun – but I’ve been burnt too often by trailers where the trailer contains the only fun moments of the film, and the rest of the film is horribly boring.
Katherine Heigl, similarly, is a hit or miss with me. I wasn’t too crazy about her in Knocked Up, but she’s fairly decent in Grey’s Anatomy – or the episodes I’ve seen.
I went in with two girlfriends, (who thought that the Danish subtitles were hilarious, by the way.) The audience was mostly females, with a couple of guys thrown in here and there for boyfriend-measure, and then there were the four guys sitting in front of us. I have no idea what the four of them did there, but they laughed at the same places as the rest of us, so presumably they enjoyed it.
Make no mistake – it is a fluffy film. But that being said, I definitely think that it is an enjoyable fluffy kind of film. It’s funny in places, it’s cute and it has its moments that make you go aww… It’s definitely a chick flick.
Katherine Heigl plays Jane – the eternal Bridesmaid. She organizes everything for her boss (the Executive Personal Assistant), who she’s in love with, and she organizes everything for the brides, because she loves weddings. The point of why she isn’t a professional wedding organizer, then, was something I wondered about, but I expect it would’ve ruined the storyline…
Jane’s younger sister arrives in town, and by ways of finangling, falls in love with Jane’s boss, and makes him fall in love with her by stretching the truth… quite a bit. Naturally, it’s up to Jane to organize things for their wedding.
Enter Kevin (?) played by ever adorable James Marsden – a wedding journalist who doesn’t believe in the happily ever after, but needs a big story to get out of the wedding circuit.
It’s a movie about falling in love, and about family. Two sisters, where the youngest one has been coddled her entire life by the older one. Not unlike the Cameron Diaz flick, In Her Shoes.
With all of the typical twists and turns of the romantic comedy, there are also some unexpected ones involved. We loved the singing (er… not the quality of it, but the fun aspects of it.)
All in all, we went out of the theatre, happy and still giggling over some of the things from the film. As one of my friends said: “What I like, is that there’s no real good/bad characters. They all have their flaws and perfections.”