I can watch Katherine Heigl in anything because she is ridiculously hot. This movie is a decent romantic comedy with Heigl doing a great job, but I just have trouble seeing her as a person who is not being "hit on" every five minutes. When you look like she does, it doesn't come across as believable that she can't score husband, and that she's always a bridesmaid and never the bride. But since this was the premise of the movie, I have to believe it's true.
Heigl plays Jane, a women who has participated in 27 different weddings but always as a bridesmaid. She is uber efficient and adores helping with every little detail of each wedding, but secretly she yearns after her boss (Edward Burns) who doesn't even know she exists. In fact, she knows her boss so well that she coaches her sister in the subtleties of dating him. Soon her sister is engaged and this is where things spiral out of control.
Knowing that her sister is about to marry the man she loves she sabotages the entire wedding and goes from being completely altruistic to selfish. Covering the "social scene" is a local reporter played by James Marsden, and he is self effacing in this role and good but not great. He covers Jane because first of all he can't believe she's been in 27 weddings, and secondly because it makes for a great story.
As Jane is set upon ruining the wedding, Marsden's character publishes the story about her in the paper and effectively destroys her reputation. She is crushed by his lack of loyalty and distraught because the two were "falling" for one another. This is a great date movie to watch at home, but an even better "Girl Night In" movie to watch with all your lady friends or gay friends, or whomever. Worth a look.
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