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Movie Review: Made of Honor with Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan

October 2nd, 2009 | 3.5 Stars, Movie Reviews 

I thought to start something new at RRN. I love romantic comedies and I have an entire collection of them so why not add movie reviews to the blog over the weekends as a refreshing break from novel reviews. Feel free to submit your own movie reviews at reviewromancenovel[@]yahoo[.]com.

The movie I've chosen to start us out recently came out on DVD. When I saw it in theaters I thought my best friend would just die! The heroine's name was her own and she had two beaus one a sexy NYC devil and the other a true Highlander, bagpipes and all. I was right!

Patrick Dempsey plays Tom Bailey the lovable schmoozer, who when in college invented the coffee collar and got into bed with the wrong girl. Hannah, played by Michelle Monaghan, is full of sass and her first act on finding Tom in her bed is to spray him with perfume right in the eyes. She follows the act by telling Tom that he's ugly in artistic terms and leaves him to her very drunk roommate.

After that it seems they were inseparable and the story picks up again at the start of a typical (Sun)day for them. Coffee, art, walk in central park, desserts at the best bakery in the city, oh and of course shopping for a wedding gift for another one of Tom's father's weddings... he's on five, six, seven? Both Tom and his father are very wealthy.

At the end of the wedding montage, Hannah announces the job offer to acquire paintings from Scotland. Tom urges her to accept and discovers that it'll be six Sundays before he'll see her again. We watch him bungle through them in mindless and sometimes desperate acts until he comes to the conclusion we as watchers have always known - he loves Hannah.

Unfortunately for Tom, he finds out the night he plans to tell her of his affections that she's going to marry someone else. This someone she met in Scotland and he's as perfect as any male can be. Poor Tom, how can he compete? To make matters worse Hannah asks Tom to be her maid of honor and that's when the story really kicks off and we discover if Tom is made of honor or selfishness. Can he love her enough to fight for her? Does he love her enough to let her go?

There were a few moments of ridiculousness that were over the top, the sex humor was funny and only a little gregarious, there was the obligatory bathroom scene in the male locker room but I laughed at it instead of thinking 'oh jeez, another one?' The chemistry between Dempsey and Monaghan was terrific and the whole cast was excellent. So pop the popcorn and kick up your heels to a Scottish tune and enjoy a night of tomfoolery - pun intended.

Rating: 3.5 Stars

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2 comments ↓
#1 Krysten on 01.20.09 at 1:47 pm

I just watched this this past weekend. I felt so bad for the groom at the end–how humiliating! He wasn’t a bad guy after all.

#2 Keira on 01.20.09 at 3:04 pm

We hardly feel any empathy by the time we learn he hunts and plays bagpipes, but yeah it’s kind of sad. We don’t see much of how he fell in love with Hannah or learn how deep his feelings really are which is why we feel for Tom and root for him to win Hannah over. She was stuck between a rock and a hard place – the rich guy she knew and loved since college or the handsome wealthy duke she fell in love with on a working vacation.

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