Pass the Popcorn: Movies from where I Sit

We all have our guilty pleasures.  One of mine is "27 Dresses".  It's as much of a fairy tale as "Enchanted", which is another of my guilty pleasures.  I'm not a fan of Katherine Hegel, and, as usual, the movie, a la Sandra Bullock films, has her cast as the ugly duckling, with her sister, played by Malin Ackerman, as the beauty.  Give me a break.  Hegel's features are so rubber doll perfect that it is irritating to say the least.  But she does project sass, and with her deep voice, has some presence.  Her character is already a wife, as she is the devoted slave of her boss (Edward McMillen) and the marriage is not satisfying, not hardly.  She is everybody and nobody's devoted friend as well, and has been a bridesmaid 27 times.  Along comes someone fun:  a writer for the wedding column in the biggest paper, James Marsden (strange, he is the prince in "Enchanted" as well and also JFK in "The Butler"). 

Now here is the secret to why this movie works:  he's like a girl's best gay friend (as in "Best Friend's Wedding"), but miraculously, he isn't gay.  He's attracted to this stick in the mud, and sees the underlying sadness of her life.  He's, moreover, FUN.  There is the scene when they are both drunk in a bar in the middle of nowhere singing "Benny and the Jets".  This is borrowed from "Best Friend's Wedding" and reworked more satisfactorily.  Like me, I'm sure you never got over Rupert Everett refusing to change his sexual orientation and marrying Julia Roberts.  For some reason, Marsden wants Hegel, because he sees potential, I guess.  He should run for the hills, but anyway, that wouldn't be romantically satisfying.

So, we get the satisfaction of the pretty younger sister's comeupance, as Hegel destroys her engagement and wedding plans, but she has her reasons, as sister is lying about being vegan and cut up mom's wedding dress to boot.  She gets her chance with the boss and discovers there is no chemistry between them.  So she will not be picking out his clothes in the morning and serving him a seven course breakfast before he hihos off to work.  She's off the hook, and whatever the future is with almost gay man, it will be a lot more interesting.  Maybe.  Unless you think about it.