Always a Bridesmaid

Grey's Anatomy starlet Katherine Heigl has quite smoothly transcended the barrier from TV actress to romcom heroine. Following the success of Knocked Up, Heigl follows up the role with a part in this syrupy sweet story.

Jane (Katherine Heigl) is such a great bridesmaid she keeps an organiser with all her bridesmaid duties busting out of them. She's such a great bridesmaid that she's been one 27 times, sometimes with two on the same night.

She's fine with it or at least she thinks she's fine with it. But then her sister goes and gets engaged to the man Jane is secretly in love with and Jane is asked to be a bridesmaid at one wedding where she wished she'd be the bride. And the plot thickens when Kevin (a dashing James Marsden), Jane's favourite wedding journalist, decides to make Jane's bridesmaid story into a lead feature.

The story is pretty cliché without any particularly surprising twists or turns. Though it's certainly no classic 27 Dresses has a certain charm about it that has been lacking from a lot of recent romcom attempts. Katherine Heigl, though stunning, manages to be believable as the girl who's never quite made it down the aisle.

Most importantly, as a heroine, she's very likeable and there's enough love-hate chemistry with Marsden to pull at the heartstrings just a little.

Get this on DVD for a girlie night in.