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"Made of Honor" Review

by Jane Boursaw on May 3rd, 2008

I realize there aren’t a whole lot of new ideas when it comes to romantic comedies, but it’s not that hard to bring something new to the table. Unfortunately, Made of Honor doesn’t deliver, instead re-hashing the same tired storylines of guy and girl as best friends (My Best Friend’s Wedding, When Harry Met Sally), a wedding in a foreign country (Three Men and a Little Lady, Four Weddings and a Funeral), and even a mad-dash horse/car/boat/motorcycle/you-name-it final scene to keep the girl from choosing the wrong guy.

More after the jump…

Tom (Patrick Dempsey) and Hannah (Michelle Monaghan) have been friends since college, ever since he accidentally crawled into bed with her instead of her slutty dorm-mate down the hall. Ten years have passed, and now they’re best friends, even though Tom is a ladies’ man who sleeps with a different woman practically every night (in this day and age? yikes).

Tom comes by it honestly, though. His dad (Sydney Pollack) is on his sixth marriage. Apparently, he doesn’t understand that you can date a person without marrying them.

When Hannah goes to Scotland for six weeks for her job, she gets stuck in a rainstorm on a country road surrounded by sheep. She’s rescued by a dashing Scotsman named Colin (Kevin McKidd), who promptly brings her into the fold of his royal family (he’s a duke), and proposes. She accepts, and the two begin planning a wedding just two weeks away at his family’s castle in Scotland. In short, Colin is the perfect guy — he’s handsome, rich, and sports a cool Scottish accent.

None of this goes over well with Tom, who realizes that he’s fallen in love with his best friend, Hannah. But the time never seems right to bring it up; plus, she asks him to be her maid of honor, which doesn’t go over well with his basketball buddies, including Felix (Kadeem Hardison, who’s been working steadily since he played Dwayne Wayne on A Different World in the 1990s). And then there are Hannah’s bridesmaids, one of whom Tom slept with and dumped way back when.

Yeah, we can see where all this is headed in the first few minutes. Still, the Scottish scenery and actors are all swell to look at.

Images: Made of Honor, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2008

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