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Laugh out loud funny, until you cry.
an infrequent movie goer
MAY
4
2008
Going into the movie I thought it was going to be a constant laugh, and it was...but there was romance and heartbreak all within that comedy.
It's a story of a girl named Jane, who decides at the age of 8 years old that she wants to be involved in helping with weddings. The beginning of the movie shows an 8 year old Jane, helping her cousin with a wedding dress malfunction.
The next scene goes to an older Jane working for an Environmental company, where she is madly in love with her boss. Her younger sister Tess comes into town and that's where disaster strikes.
A girl from Jane's office is holding a bridal shower and Jane invites her sister Tess to join her. Being a model, Tess says she is joining friends from Milan to have a drink, but she will try to make it.
Enter Tess at the shower and she instantly notices George, Jane's boss and object of her affection. Willing to do anything for her little sister, she introduces her sister Tess to George even though the possibility of their romance to bloom.
Tess and George hit it off, but Tess decides to try to be the woman he wants, someone like Jane. Tess starts lying to George telling him that she enjoys the same thing he does.
In the meantime, Jane meets a young man named Kevin, who unknown to her is also her favorite writer for the New York Journal (Committments writer) Malcolm Doyle. Malcolm attends weddings to write an article in the NYJ that all woman would kill for to be in, but Jane does not know this information and just knows him as a "writer".
At their first wedding, she finds that Kevin (a.k.a. Malcolm) is a marriage hater. Not wanting to have anything to do with him (Because she is marriage bound), she keeps trying to blow him off.
George proposes to Tess, and this greatly hurts Jane...but even more so Tess and Jane's father give Tess her dead mother's wedding gown to use for her own wedding. Jane is quiet and doesn't mention that she was the one to want to wear her wedding dress.
After much deliberation, and the new anouncement of her sisters wedding, Jane joins Kevin for drinks. They somewhat hit it off, but she is still leery of him because of his not wanting to get married.
The next day she finds out that Kevin is Malcolm Doyle, and her earth is totally shattered. "I feel like I just found out my favorite song was written about a sandwhich" quotes Jane, on finding out Kevin is Malcolm.
Tess has sent Kevin and Jane out to do make her registry list and Jane finds out that the reason that Kevin is so hateful of marriage is because he was left by his fiance at the altar. And to make matters worse, his college room mate.
Jane feels like a real jerk for guessing the reason, and responds with "Wanna go find the ugliest stuff in the store and register Tess for it?".
After sitting with George tasting dinners for the reception, Jane offers to go with him to his next stop, but he says he really must go because he has dinner with Tess. Kevin says he will join her, and she's so upset that he is joining her. This is where Kevin finds out that Jane is in love with George. Jane and Kevin fight on their ride and end up hydroplaning and going off the road. Stuck late at night they walk into a bar and Kevin confesses that one of the weddings he did he cried like a baby. They drink, sing "Benny and the Jets" on the bar and then end up spending a romantic drunken night in the car together.
The next day they get a tow, and are sitting in a restaurant when the waitress reveals that Jane is the "lady from the newspaper". Jane is confused and asks to see the paper, where she finds out that Kevin was never writing an article about her sister Tess, but the whole time writing about her 27 Dresses and "Always, always, always a bridesmaid". Jane storms out and Kevin follows, but she slaps him in the face for lying to her.
Jane joins Tess at a dress fitting and realizes Tess has chopped up her mother's wedding dress to make it "prettier and up to date". Jane threatens that if she doesn't tell George the truth she will.
"You won't share that information with me about him. You wouldn't hurt a fly. Besides, I'm your sister." Tess says.
"That was yesterday. Today you're just the b**ch who broke my heart and cut up my mother's wedding dress." Jane replies.
At the rehearsal dinner, Jane gives a speech on the couple and this is where she outs Tess to George. Tess storms after George but comes back and tells Jane that the wedding is off.
After the rehearsal, Kevin joins Jane and tries to apologize saying he didn't know his editor was going to run the story. She doesn't take his apology but he leaves her with a PDA/phone so she can rid herself of her bulky fil-o-fax.
Next scene you find Tess talking to George and she is apologizing for doing what she did at the rehearsal. George mentions that she is just looking out for him, and thanks her. He then asks him to do her a favor with his computer, trying to find a presentation. She kindly accepts and he mentions that is what he likes about her that she never refuses anything he asks.
At this point, Jane looks back on a previous conversation she had with Kevin about not being able to say no and Jane says to George that she is quitting. She mentions the fact that she has been in love with him since day one. George kisses her, but only to find that there is no spark between them.
They both agree that they should be with someone that they have spark with. Next thing you hear is a "Benny and the Jets" ringtone and Jane rushes out to find Kevin.
Finding him on his last wedding aboard a ship, she jumps aboard. The bride instantly recognizes her from the article and asks Jane what she is doing there. Jane explains that she is in love with Kevin, at which point the bride rushes her up to the stage so she can find Kevin and tell him that she loves him. She locates him and walks over to him, and you think at first he's just going to blow her off, but tells her to come over to him and they kiss.
The ending of the movie is shown a year later of Kevin and Jane getting married, and Tess is her maid of honor. After the wedding, Tess is thanking everyone and George walks over to her and she introduces herself and states all the things she likes and dislikes as the real her.
As a lover of romantic comedies, I give this movie 5 stars. This is the funniest, most romantic movie that I have seen all year. I plan to watch it again and again.
Last edited on May 13, 2008
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