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Director :<\/strong>\u00a0 Paul Weiland **********************<\/p>\n When you sit down to watch a film, especially a film one could easily regard as a \u201cchick flick\u201d, you regard the title of the film as a reasonably good indicator of what you\u2019re likely to witness. Made of Honor<\/em>, sounding suspiciously like an army film or a school football film, is a fairly fluffy and predictable romcom with the appeal of McDreamy (Patrick Dempsey) and the delightful Michelle Monaghan. It\u2019s a romantic comedy with liberal helpings of romantic-ness, but a little less of the comedy. There are funny moments, don\u2019t get me wrong, and the Hen\u2019s Night scene in particular is a scream, but most of this kind of thing has been done before, in one form or another, and I got the strange sense of been-there-done-that while watching. I did laugh a bit, as my wife will probably attest, but in the cold hard light of day later on, I wasn\u2019t overly impressed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dempsey stars as Tom, a male slut sleeping his way through the female species, who happens to be friends with Hannah, a young girl he met by chance in college. When Hannah returns from Scotland with a fiancee in tow, Tom starts to realise that he actually loves Hannah, and more than just as somebody he hasn\u2019t slept with yet. Hannah asks him, since he\u2019s her best friend (why?) to be her maid of honor. Yep, it\u2019s a clever play on the position, inherent in the title.<\/p>\n So, you can kind of guess what\u2019s going to happen. The Man will try and break up the Happy Couple, by using subterfuge, then outright stupidity, before realizing he\u2019s been going about it the wrong way, and then proceeds to show the Girl just how bad a choice she\u2019s making, and she\u2019ll hopefully run into his arms. There\u2019s the obligatory Mother who knows whats really going on, and isn\u2019t stupid. The In-Laws, none of whom really understand each other but who smile and nod, smile and nod. There\u2019s the old grandmother who mistakes sex toys for jewellery (true) and a bridesmaid who\u2019s jealous of not being the Maid of Honor. There\u2019s also a Dorky Guy who is useless at everything but still tries. Yep, all the ingredients for a fairly formulaic film are present, and director Paul Weiland has stirred, heated and presented as the recipe has said.<\/p>\n This is the kind of fluff Hollywood has been putting out for the better part of a century, and while it still appeals to the girls who squeal every time McDreamy appears on Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em>, it\u2019s less likely to do so for everybody else. The script is like a comedy-lite version of Friends<\/em>, with a hint of Two and a Half Men<\/em> thrown in. Dempsey never really pulls off the slutty man-ho he\u2019s supposed to be, and it hamstrings the dynamic between him and Monaghan. Monaghan is as splendid as she was in MI3<\/em> with The Cruiser, and hopefully we\u2019ll see plenty more from her in the years to come. She\u2019s already been in some biggies (Mr & Mrs Smith, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Constantine, The Bourne Supremacy<\/em>, and most recently in the thriller Eagle Eye<\/em>) so this will only be a mild aberration on her career path to greatness. Why her character even bothered to get to know Dempsey\u2019s in the first place is a big question for me, but then, this is a romcom and little idiosyncrasies like that tend to be overlooked for the sake of the story.<\/p>\n The rest of the cast, including a barely there and criminally underused (but surprisingly busty) Kathleen Quinlan rate only a flicker of a mention, mainly as the focus is firmly on the two stars: they do what\u2019s required but very little else. Sub-plots remain unresolved at the end of the film, however, and this can be quite frustrating for somebody hoping for a complete story\u2026. You have to contend with the absurdity of the scenario and that leaves little room for anything else.<\/p>\n Ultimately, I was happy with Made of Honor<\/em>, if only for the frivolous 90-odd minutes it took to watch weren\u2019t the most excruciating lost moments of my life: you can do better as far as entertainment, but if you must watch this, then you\u2019ll most likely enjoy it. It\u2019s enjoyable without being memorable.<\/p>\n Derivative, by-the-numbers romantic comedy is somewhat engaging thanks to the chemistry between Dempsey and Monaghan, but that’s about it. 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\nYear Of Release :<\/strong>\u00a0 2008
\nPrincipal Cast :<\/strong>\u00a0 Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin McKidd, Kathleen Quinlan, Sydney Pollack, Chris Messina, Kadeem Hardison, Richmond Arquette, Busy Phillips, Whitney Cummings.
\nApprox Running Time :<\/strong>\u00a0 101 Minutes
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0 When his best female friend becomes engaged to another man, it’s up to one wealthy executive to win her back.
\nWhat we think :\u00a0 <\/strong>Derivative, by-the-numbers romantic comedy is somewhat engaging thanks to the chemistry between Dempsey and Monaghan, but that’s about it. For rainy, lazy days on the couch only.
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