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An insipid little film

A scene from ‘Made of Honor’.

Made of Honor (English)

Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Sydney Pollack

Director: Paul Weiland

Who said “Sex and the City” is only for women? In “Made of Honor” you have Tom discuss his love life over brunch with the boys.

Strange how come he does not slip into Armani as he bids goodbye to good friend Hannah, or may be he grabs that Louis Vuitton en route to the airport.

The boys do all sorts of supposed guy things and also talk about love, life and everything in between.

Don’t, however, think this film is a smart subversion of product placements and all that is shallow about chick lit. Because it isn’t.

It is just a lazy, by-the-numbers movie, which replaces the gal pals with buddies but still blindly follows the rom com dictates and huffs and puffs to a hysterically predictable ending.

So there is Tom, who is handsome, rich and successful (we are never told what he does for a living). He sleeps around and is commitment phobic. His best friend is Hannah with whom he goes for Sunday lunches where they eat good healthy, steamed food.

Of course, Tom does not know he is in love with Hannah till she leaves for Scotland for a business meeting. When she is gone, he realises he loves her and is all set to propose only to have her introduce him to her royal Scottish fiancé.

Tom agrees to be the “maid of honour” just so that he could inveigle himself into Hannah’s heart and show her that he is the one for her.

The film has a few saving graces. For one, Hannah pulls up a store clerk for selling alligator leather — it is nice to be kind to our furry, scaly friends. And then Bangalore is mentioned in the movie! How cool is that? Never mind it is one of the characters saying that they have outsourced something or the other to Bangalore.

And then there is McDreamy, Patrick Dempsey himself in a Scottish mini-kilt showing off more of himself than one would like to see.

All in all an insipid little film that you should watch with zero expectations.

MINI ANTHIKAD-CHHIBBER

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