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Made of Honor

Grade: C- | By Bryant Frazer on September 15, 2008 9:47 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

My review of Made of Honor is online at FilmFreakCentral.net:

Made of Honor is what's generally known as a "chick flick." I'm not totally comfortable deploying that term, especially in its usual derogatory, casually-sexist usage--but in a purely descriptive and possibly cynical sense, that's what we have here. It's a love story, featuring a conventionally handsome leading man (Patrick Dempsey) playing opposite a conventionally pretty woman (Michelle Monaghan) whose character is engaged to marry the conventionally wrong guy (blond Scot Kevin McKidd). It's directed by a man (Paul Weiland), although to its credit there is a woman prominently involved (co-writer Deborah Kaplan), and it's designed from the bottom up to appeal to undemanding female filmgoers.

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Frame grab from Sonny Chiba's Dragon Princess
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