Shawn's Made of Honor Review

2008 Movie # 57 - Made of Honor

During my crusade to see every movie of this year, many people mock me for the movies that down the road I'm going to have to watch. This movie was right near the top of that mocking list. I figured I better get it out of the way now before I start watching all the huge Summer blockbusters like Indiana Jones. At least this movie may have a fighting chance before I have to measure it against all those movies.

Sadly this could have probably been the first movie I saw this year and it still wouldn't have a fighting chance. This is one of several 2008 movies whose existence just confuses me. There is literally absolutely no reason why this movie should exist. Granted that argument can be made about many movies out there but at least most of them have some sort of entertainment value. This one has nothing. It calls itself a romantic comedy but there is nothing comedic and hardly anything romantic about it.

A few months back another Grey's Anatomy star had a wedding movie with 27 Dresses. It too was a fairly standard run of the mill romantic comedy, but it still had a quality about it that made it stand at least a little bit above the others in this genre. A lot of this was due to the cast taking subpar material and elevating it to a point in quality it really had no right to even be at.

Made of Honor doesn't have that cast to fall back it. The subpar material just gets to sit there and be worse and worse. Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan do alright in their roles, but the entire parade of characters just don't even feel like actual human beings. There's something strangely polarizing about this movie. Nothing about any of the characters, their actions or their situations feel at any way real.

That being said the movie is also painfully unfunny. It tries so hard sometimes to be wacky and over the top and it fails over and over again to the point where you almost start to feel bad for it. You want to give it that "at least it's trying" credit but you know what, I'm not even entirely convinced that it is trying. It doesn't look like a single bit of effort went into this thing.

DONE!

.5 / 5