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Made of Honor
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Patrick Dempsey,
Michelle Monaghan, Kathleen Quinlan, Sydney Pollack |
| MPAA Rated: |
PG-13 |
| Released By: |
Columbia Pictures |
| Web Site: |
www.madeofhonor-movie.com |
| Kiddie Movie: |
Only if you hate
your kids. |
| Date Movie: |
If you made her go
and see "Iron Man" and she hated it. |
| Gratuitous Sex: |
Skimpy outfits,
talk, and a drunk bridesmaid. |
| Gratuitous
Violence: |
There's a punch. |
| Action: |
Nope. |
| Laughs: |
There are some
chuckles. |
| Memorable
Scene: |
I really want to
know if there was anyone in the theater that thought the
"tree" throwing scene wouldn't end up in disaster. |
| Memorable
Quote: |
None. |
| Directed By: |
Paul Weiland |
| Produced By: |
Neal H. Moritz |
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Made of Honor
A Movie Review |
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I think I have decided that my next gig will be as a
screenwriter because if all you have to do is pretty much
copy other romantic comedies, well, I’ve seen enough of them
to know all of the important things they must have. Let’s
see, you could have the good-looking guy who is "just
friends" with the good-looking girl. He likes to sleep
around while she can pick out what he wants for dessert. Of
course he might have a group of friends who a) Think he is
great because he gets to sleep with lots of beautiful women,
but b) the married friends tell him that he doesn’t know
what he is missing by not being in a relationship. Then,
also of course, because it has to happen, the good-looking
girl finds another guy, who may or may not be Mr. Right, but
she’s tired of being single. Yup, now the dude realizes he
is actually in love with the girl, but she’s getting married
so he drags out the fact that he loves her until the night
before the wedding, he realizes he might be ruining her
life, has that moment of clarity, and barges into the church
just as the priest is asking if anyone wants to stop the
wedding. And they live happily ever after. Make sure the
dialogue is inane and safe, and there you have it, a
romantic comedy. Oh wait, there you have "Made of Honor."
From that first paragraph you can probably tell that I
didn’t care for "Made of Honor" that much, but here’s the
story anyway…
Patrick Dempsey is Tom in this film, and he’s the
good-looking womanizer who is also best friends with Hannah
(Michelle Monaghan). You can see that Hannah knows there is
a different man inside of Tom, one that probably would like
to be in love, so instead she just hangs out with him to
hear about his latest conquest and the rules he has for
relationships (like no back-to-backs, but not meaning a
sexual position). Hannah flies off to Scotland for business,
Tom realizes, with her gone, that he can’t live without her,
and just as he is about to tell her his feelings, yup, you
guessed it, especially if you saw the trailer, Hannah
returns from the Old Country with her new fiancé who is just
about perfect. Since Tom is Hannah’s best friend, of course
she asks him to be her MOH, and now her priest and fiancé’s
family thinks he’s gay. Tom takes the job as her MOH to
hopefully break up the wedding, we have the obligatory scene
where Hannah tries on lingerie in front of Tom for her
wedding night, they all end up in Scotland for the wedding,
Hannah thinks Tom is sleeping with one of her bridesmaids,
and blah, blah, blah, yup, he busts into the church just at
the right moment to tell Hannah he loves her. And if you are
upset because I’m giving too much away about this film, I
just have to wonder if you have ever seen a cookie-cutter
romantic comedy before because "Made of Honor" is as bland a
cookie there is.
Fine, Michelle Monahan does her best to keep this movie
fresh, but as much as I like Patrick Dempsey as an actor
sometimes, I just didn’t care for him in this one. The weird
thing is that if you put the screenwriting into the hands of
the Judd Apatow crew, this movie almost could have worked
because those folks have seemed to find a way to translate
the way a lot of us actually act in real life to the movie
screen (the only scene that was close was when one of Tom’s
friend bailed when asked to make some party favor baskets).
And you also know what, the Apatow people wouldn’t even have
had to make this movie rated R. (Can you now tell that I
didn’t really care for this movie?)
I really wanted this movie to be better than it ended up
because the cast, at first, seemed good, but instead of
trying to attach some semblance of reality to the same story
we have seen again and again, "Made of Honor" fell into the
wrong trap of "this isn’t even close to reality," especially
with Tom’s friends (thank God I don’t have friends like
his), and Hannah’s best friend trying to sabotage Tom
because yea, we get it, Grandma doesn’t really understand
(or maybe she does which is more creepy) the
glow-in-the-dark thunder-beads. It’s 1 ½ stars out of 5 for
me, and even with the happy ending, I’m thinking "Made of
Honor" would probably wind up at about a 2 ½ star movie on
"The Dudette Scale" because its clocking in at an hour and
forty one minutes was probably about ten minutes too long
for a movie where the ending was a foregone conclusion even
before stepping into the movie theater.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!!
L8R!!! |
