28 Dresses
This trite '27 Dresses' rip-off is a left turn in the career of Anne Hathaway, who had a string of classier movies up this point, including 'Becoming Jane' and 'Devil Wears Prada.' Hopefully, she will soon be back on track.
Meanwhile, we should take just a moment to comment upon that fact Ms. Hathaway did do some good films about female empowerment, but this film is 2 steps backward. Ms. Hathaway's character in this film discovers her independence by getting drunk on tequila and doing raunchy dancing. There are 2 scenes with this behavior, and in one she is wearing a bikini top, and rubbing her body against a young man at spring break in Acupulco. In the real world, getting drunk and doing raunchy dancing against the body of a spring breaker in Mexico will not make you independent, but is instead more likely to end up with someone slipping you rufinols and you getting gang-raped by a fraternity and waking up in a hospital.
Just as this film lacks the guts to challenge the herd mentality regarding the raunchy dancing fad, it also lacks the guts to challenge the bloated Cinderella wedding fantasy industry, which is helping young couples start out their family life with $20K to $50K worth of debt.
Special note should be made regarding the male characters in this film: if you combine them all into one person, you'd have enough characterization to fill a 30 second promo for the upcoming weather report. In other words, a Ken doll is more interesting than these guys.
Though the women don't fare much better. Candice Bergan is wasted in a role that goes nowhere. The tall chick who used to be on '3rd Rock from the Sun' pretty much steals the show, I would much rather have watched her for 2 hours, she seemed interesting.
Meanwhile, we should take just a moment to comment upon that fact Ms. Hathaway did do some good films about female empowerment, but this film is 2 steps backward. Ms. Hathaway's character in this film discovers her independence by getting drunk on tequila and doing raunchy dancing. There are 2 scenes with this behavior, and in one she is wearing a bikini top, and rubbing her body against a young man at spring break in Acupulco. In the real world, getting drunk and doing raunchy dancing against the body of a spring breaker in Mexico will not make you independent, but is instead more likely to end up with someone slipping you rufinols and you getting gang-raped by a fraternity and waking up in a hospital.
Just as this film lacks the guts to challenge the herd mentality regarding the raunchy dancing fad, it also lacks the guts to challenge the bloated Cinderella wedding fantasy industry, which is helping young couples start out their family life with $20K to $50K worth of debt.
Special note should be made regarding the male characters in this film: if you combine them all into one person, you'd have enough characterization to fill a 30 second promo for the upcoming weather report. In other words, a Ken doll is more interesting than these guys.
Though the women don't fare much better. Candice Bergan is wasted in a role that goes nowhere. The tall chick who used to be on '3rd Rock from the Sun' pretty much steals the show, I would much rather have watched her for 2 hours, she seemed interesting.
- flapdoodle64
- Jun 14, 2009