Quartile rating: 6/10 · 2 ratings
Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.
27 Dresses is a competent, crowd-pleasing romcom that hits its genre beats reliably. Katherine Heigl is charming and James Marsden steals scenes, giving the film more warmth than its formulaic premise deserves. The plot is well-worn romcom territory — secret love, rival sister, journalist with hidden agenda — offering little surprise. Cinematography is functional and unremarkable, typical of mid-2000s studio romantic comedies. The ending delivers the expected resolution with enough earned sentiment to satisfy fans of the genre, even if it holds no surprises.