27 Dresses

The film is yawningly predictable...

Writer Aline Brosh McKenna's latest effort instructs women to be doormats for men who treat them like crap, because heaven forbid they wind up never getting married.

The redeeming thing - and it's really all in Heigl's performance - is that Jane knows she's a silly cliché, and spends most of the movie inwardly wincing at her own haplessness.

What a maddening waste of Katherine Heigl this insipid romantic comedy is.

The story requires an antagonist, so Jane's sister is painted as a monster for most of the film. At the end, however, she is reshaped as Jane's close friend and confidante. The film's credibility crumbles like stale wedding cake.

Judy Greer does what she best chewing scenery and stealing scenes as Jane’s acerbic best friend Casey

A formulaic flop hog-tied by coincidences, contrivances and romantic-comedy clichés.

It really is Heigl's film, and she sells both the enthusiasm of someone high on the brilliant potential of love and versed in combatting the barbs of cynicism.

Lacks the wickedness of The Devil Wears Prada (although it shares a scriptwriter). [Full review in Spanish]