RED, WHITE AND WOO: Will (Ryan Reynolds) attempts to romance April (Isla Fisher) in Definitely, Maybe.
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27 DRESSES 27 Dresses is the filmic equivalent of a baby: cute, pampered, craving attention, and somewhat smelly thanks to all the formula passing through it. A rom-com that dutifully follows down the genre's preordained path rather than ever take off on its own, this casts Katherine Heigl as Jane, a perpetual bridesmaid who (as the title hints) has attended 27 weddings in that capacity. Jane feels that it's payback time – that she should land her own man and her own wedding – and she's long been pining over her boss George (Edward Burns). But he's never shown any interest outside of their business relationship, and once her perky, irresponsible supermodel sister (Malin Akerman) breezes into town, George is hopelessly smitten. Nice-girl Jane refuses to interfere, even though she knows her sister and her boss aren't right for each other, and she's frequently distracted by the unwanted advances of the cynical Kevin (James Marsden), who she knows to be a writer but doesn't realize that – get this – he's the one who writes the heartwarming newspaper wedding columns that she clips out with religious devotion. Director Anne Fletcher and writer Aline Brosh McKenna offer a couple of modest examples of plot tweaking, but for the most part, this is so clichéd that it even includes the standard scene in which our drunken leads persuade an entire bar of people to join them in singing along to a pop hit. In this case, the tune being played is Elton John's "Benny and the Jets," but a more apt selection would have been The Four Tops' "It's the Same Old Song." **
OPENS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22:
BE KIND REWIND: Jack Black, Mos Def.
CHARLIE BARTLETT: Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey, Jr.
IN BRUGES: Colin Farrell, Ralph Fiennes.
VANTAGE POINT: Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker.
WITLESS PROTECTION: Larry the Cable Guy, Jenny McCarthy.
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