27 Dresses (2008)

This afternoon, I decided to see 27 Dresses. Netflix says:

Tired of being a perpetual bridesmaid after helping 27 friends tie the knot, altruistic Jane (Katherine Heigl) finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister (Malin Akerman) announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores. But when Jane meets the charming Kevin (James Marsden), will she beat her sibling to the altar? Edward Burns and Judy Greer also star in this breezy romantic comedy from director Anne Fletcher.

I really liked this one. I used to be a sucker for romantic comedies, but then I lost interest in them. I'm a Katherine Heigl fan, and the commercials for this looked a little different. I mean, it was a Hollywood studio production, but it had some twists. As I sat down to watch it, I realized that I didn't know anything about the plot. It is very tricky to create a trailer for a film that reveals nothing of the plot but still gives a sense of the movie. Sure, it had an expected ending, but I had no idea what path we were going to take to get there even as I was watching the movie. And Heigl and Marsden are great actors, though Judy Greer stole the show as Heigl's best friend. I gave it five out of five because it still fit the genre even as it took some different paths to get there.