I went for the movie when I was looking for a bit of fluff, so I wasn’t disappointed, but neither was I very entertained. “27 Dresses” is a yet another situation comedy the studios crank out for their female audiences, because they know they can get away with it because there is so little else out there aimed at female audiences. You have the engineered “comedy” of a woman who has been a bridesmaid in 27 weddings. She meets the fella – a reporter who covers weddings but wants to get into something more serious – and through him learns that she is a complete doormat. However, she’s still harboring a huge crush on her boss (at a nice, swanky office that all of these type of comedies put their women in because I guess they’ve discovered in focus groups that we drool over a nicely designed cubicle space as much as a movie star), and the kicker is that her bratty younger sister is going to marry her boss and, of course, asks her to be the bridesmaid. So much of this movie felt overly-contrived that I couldn’t buy into it enough to laugh. Katherine Heigl once again proves that she can carry a movie, but hopefully this isn’t a sign of the direction she plans on taking in her career.

ugh. just…ugh.