MADE OF HONOR

MADE OF HONOR LOOKS BEAUTIFUL IN TAFFETA

Once again, I bit the chick-flick/romantic comedy shield I hold so firmly in place and watched Made of Honor. Maybe it's PMS, but I really liked it. There isn't much of anything new or groundbreaking. It's a gender reversal of My Best Friend's Wedding but more well done.

The premise is simple. Men are idiots. They want to date (and screw) the beautiful, arousing yet vapid women and have the mousy/chubby/good personality type women for friends. That way they get the best of both worlds. Almost the classic Madonna/Whore complex. So the stage is set to meet the "typical" bachelor who is "bringing sexy back" one conquest at a time, Tom Baily (Patrick Dempsey in a reminiscent performance in Lover Boy 1989). He is suave and charming and smooth and the best friend of Hannah (Michelle Monaghan) having met in college in a most unusual way. Her job takes her elsewhere for a long six weeks. During that time, Einstein figures how much he misses her and has plenty of input from his circle of pals. As he is ready to have a heart-to-heart at a dinner date to profess his love, up pops Colin (Kevin McKidd) an uber-Scottish man who has captured her heart. Now the race begins as Tom does his best to stop the wedding.

This wasn't brain science nor was it any other number of films. That being said, it was a good movie. It was entertaining and engaging (pun not intended). The fun was in watching Tom make his realization and then watching Hannah catch up. Both Monaghan and Dempsey show strong and believable work here. It's the fairy tale that so many women want. We fall in love with our best friends, not showing our hand, but then he comes to his senses and once together, it feels perfect and right with the universe.

BITE: Very entertaining, well acted and sweet. Light and fluffy and worth seeing.