Bad Chick Flick - 27 Dresses

20th Century Fox

So I was going to do my list of all-time worst chick flicks that I've endured over the years, but I had a hard time remembering them. I then looked around and found out that list has already been made. Looking it over brought back some painful theater-going memories. Especially that movie How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, which I really really did not like. That was at the top of my list until recently.

Thanks to my wife and the good people of On Demand TV, I have a new top entry on my personal Top 10 chick flick stinkers: 27 Dresses. This one had it all, cheesy music montages that made me scream at the TV, cringe-inducing dialogue about how "you're the first person who really gets me" and yes, even a "we're so zany we can get a whole bar in the middle of nowhere to sing and dance with us" scene! Yeah, it was that bad.

And, yes, acute observers will notice that it does play on the whole misunderstood lyrics thing that I blogged about last week. While this topic can be funny of course, let me be clear that watching it in this scene was very unfunny.

I checked out the Razzies discussion board on the movie and found other people shared my abhorrence of this film, but then there were also those who came to its defense (but I have no idea why). I'm not just a bitter guy (I admit I liked The Notebook), but I'm just saying there wasn't a lot for me to work with here. I mean they could have at least thrown in a car chase or something (the car crash doesn't count, they didn't even hit anything! I'm rating the film WOF as in Watch Out Fellas. If your lady friend starts to linger over this film in the video store, tell her to keep moving, nothing to see here.
There is, however, a silver lining for me as a result of enduring the full 107 minutes of 27 Dresses. Tonight I get guilt-free uninterrupted viewing of my beloved Iggles. E-A-G-L-E-S, EAGLES!

1:03 PM ET | 09-15-2008 | permalink

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