Made of Honor

Made of Honor

Rated PG-13

Running Time: 1 hr 41 mins

Cast:

Patrick Dempsey
Michelle Monaghan
Kevin McKidd

Critical Consensus:

** out of *****
(12% Fresh Rating!)

Matt's Take:

Has Not Viewed

Mikey @ The Movies Official Rating:

*1/2 out of *****

The premise:

A guy in love with an engaged woman tries to win her over after she asks him to be her maid of honor.

MY REVIEW

It is becoming increasingly difficult for me to review this genre of film. Man they just cannot come up with a unique or original idea for these romantic comedies. They are all the same because girls love to watch the same fantasy tale of love that ends in total happiness. This movie follows this formula: Girl and Boy become best friends + Boy falls in love with girl, but doesn not tell her + Girl never realizes and doesn't feel the same way + Girl falls in love with another man who's perfect in every way + Boy tries to sabatoge Girl and new boys relationship + Girl tries to marry new boy + Boy proffesses his love for girl at the last possible moment and she ditches new boy to be with old boy forever = same cliched romatic comedy storyline.

The final act is always predicatable in the sense you know what's going to happen, you just never really know how it's going to happen. Well, really you do, but if you are like me you like to pretend you don't just have some element of suprise. This movie is not funny in the least. This movie has no charm. This movie is pretty poorly written. The characters aren't that likeable. You have to love how easy it is to find love when you are a movie character. You see, these movies are just as unrealistic and unbelievable as fantasy movies or over the top action movies, but people don't realize that because these movies tell a story that girls just go ga-ga over. Then it fails to register in their minds how stories like this don't happen in real life all that often.

Made of Honor is a no go in the Mikey @ The Movies 2008 film book.

To view this films theatrical trailer, click this link: Made of Honor

*This is the 110th new film I've seen and reviewed this year.

*This film is now on DVD.