Made of Honor (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]
Made of Honor (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]
Tom loves his life. Until he realizes he also love his best friends hannah. But when hanna get engaged to a dashing scotsman & asks him to be her maid of honor tom faces hostile bridesmaids bridal showers & bad hair days all in an effort to pull off the perfect wedding - and steal the bride! Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/16/2008 Starring: Patrick Dempsey Run time: 117 minutes Rating: UrPatrick Dempsey makes his full transition to romantic-comedy stardom in Made of Honor, flashing those winning dimples and twinkly baby blues to full fetching effect. The camera truly loves him, and his considerable affable charm calls to mind early Hugh Grant, winsome even in utter confusion. Dempsey plays Tom, a nice guy but a serial dater with a girlfriend in every zip code of New York; Michelle Monaghan is Hannah, Tom’s BFF since college, who’s decided she wants marriage and family. When she becomes unexpectedly engaged to Colin (Journeyman’s Kevin McKidd, rather McDreamy himself), Tom realizes what the viewer’s known all along–that Hannah is in fact his dream woman. It’s When Harry Met Sally… meets My Best Friend’s Wedding–but thankfully, Dempsey’s Tom is far more sympathetic than Julia Roberts’ snide schemer. The plot isn’t exactly full of surprises, but the cast–and their amazing chemistry–are so winning that the film makes for the perfect date movie. Not only are all three leads charming in their own way, but the rich cinematography manages to make both Manhattan and the Scottish countryside look like glorious edens, one urban, one windswept. Monaghan is a revelation, quietly lovely as a young Carla Bruni, but with a flinty gumption that makes her all the more appealing. The supporting cast is rich, too, especially Sydney Pollack as Tom’s serially marrying dad. (At his dad’s fifth–or is it sixth?–wedding, Tom’s new arm-candy “stepmom” gets tipsy and overly affectionate with guests as her new husband looks on fondly: “Ah… drunk as the night I first met her.”) But at the core of the film are its big heart, and the connection between Tom and Hannah, deep and wide whether they end up just best friends or more. And the delight for viewers is knowing they’ll be just as glowy either way.– A.T. Hurley
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User Ratings and Reviews
1 Stars No Chemistry . . . . with ANYBODY!
I wanted to like this movie, I really did. I’ve always liked Patrick Dempsey, even though I don’t watch Grey’s Anatomy. He was so good in “Sweet Home Alabama”. What happened HERE??? From the very beginning scenes this movie was a train wreck. And he had ZERO chemistry with the supposed love of his life and none with his best friends either. Then add cartoonish Scottish characters, oh . . .just so SO bad. I was just stunned that the film was so poorly made.
3 Stars GOOD LIKABLE CAST HELP THIS PREDICTABLE ROMANTIC COMEDY! 2 1/2 STARS!
Seeing Dempsey in this type a role again gives this film a boost. Dempsey, Monaghan and Pollack carry the film on their shoulders and make the most out of this very predictable, featherweight comedy. I’ve seen worse, but there is nothing here we haven’t seen a thousand times. If you like the stars you will like the film. There are worse ways to waste a rainy day.
1 Stars Were The Writers On Strike When This Was Conceived?
A confirmed womanizing bachelor (Patrick Dempsey) realizes he loves his best friend (Michelle Monaghan) after she gets engaged to someone else (Kevin McKidd).
A banal, unimaginative, Hollywood romance about two self-absorbed people who do obnoxious things like plan a big expensive wedding overseas and then embarass a man in front of his family by jilting him at the altar. This plot has been done so many times before in TV shows like Friends - The Complete Series Collection that you’d be giving it too much credit to call it a remake. After a plot has been reused 20 times it needs to be called something else. Recycled barf for example.
The problem with this film is that you want Michelle to end up with Kevin. Patrick Dempsey isn’t attractive or endearing. Kevin McKidd is hot and sweet. Besides a few cultural differences which suddenly turn Michelle off, you’ll be hard pressed to understand why Michelle would leave Kevin for an immature jerk she has little connection with. And if a few cultural differences were going to turn her heart, you wonder why the bimbo is getting married in the first place. Ever heard of committment?
Insipid and stupid. An insult to intelligence. Only good thing going for it is Scottish scenery and Kevin McKidd from the excellent Rome - The Complete First Two Seasons.
3 Stars Too much of a bad comedy, too little of a well made movie
Patrick Dempsey is a good actor in general, he played in his first movie 23 years ago, but this movie is not so good because most of Hollywood movies are not so good, they are only made for commercial purposes not for an artistic or intellectual reason.This movie is as goofy as a boring teenager movie.Pretty bad movie.Although it resembles My best friend wedding movie with Julia Roberts, that one was better, in spite of the fact that both are romantic comedies.
1 Stars One of the worst ever!!!
It’s such a shame that I have to give it even 1 star. Luckily my cable provider had it for free. I am SOOOOO glad that I didn’t pay any money for it.
Things that bothered me: The guys wouldn’t play basketball with the geeky skinny guy. The super tall bridesmaid, the short fat bridemaid and then the beautiful bridemaid with the bad attitude.
Getting a root canal at the dentist was more fun than watching this movie.
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