Poor show
I think when you make a romcom and at the end, when the main guy and his true love find each other, you are sorry, then the movie is not a success.
I also think that Patrick Dempsey will never make a the same seamless transition from heartbreak hospital doctor to Hollywood A-list leading man that George Clooney did. I suspect he has the wrong hair.
Made of Honour – eTV’s chick flick offering this evening – is a terrible film, so bad that I cannot spend a lot of time on it not even to slag it off. Director Paul Weiland honed his skills in TV comedy; according to the IMDb copious episodes of Mr Bean were what prepared him for this dull romance, and it shows.
Weiland nearly overcame his unfortunate professional beginnings when he directed Rosanna’s Grave, which was charming and well constructed and weighed down only by the bewildering variety of non-Italian Latin actors faking Italian accents. Ok. I exaggerate. Only both the leads were non-Italian Latins. Whatever.
But MoH clunks along, cringe by cringe, to a predictably unlikely happy ending. I fantasised that Tom (Patrick) would just keep on going back to NYC, instead of grabbing a horse and racing along the shores of a loch to say those three little words to the woman about to marry Kevin McKidd (also a Grey’s Anatomy vet) in order to win her heart after being inspired by a sheep dog to do so. But of course he did not, and the film would be poorer for it if it was possible to be poorer than utterly destitute. In the city of cinema, Made of Honour can’t afford a trailer in the park, and grabs some shuteye on a bench in the early morning hours when both its aching extremities and hunger pangs are eventually numbed by sheer exhaustion. Really.
“No!” I silently willed Hanna (Michelle Monaghan), taking another sip of Hartenberg chard, to “marry Colin (Kevin)”, who in my book was all the yummier for being an actual Scot. Of course she didn’t, and I suspect that when she eventually said “I do” to McDreamy on a city rooftop, she was sorry.
Or not. Either way, it would have been easier, probably, to suspend disbelief in the tooth fairy. If one had to choose.
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