“Made of Honor,” starring Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan, is a typical genre movie – a romantic comedy that follows the tried and true formula, boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl. Unfortunately, this film is so predictable that you don’t even care if the boy gets the girl at the end. In fact, Tom (Dempsey) is such a self-centered jerk that you don’t even like him for most of the movie. He’s such a whiner. And there is absolutely no chemistry between Tom and Hannah (Monaghan). So when Hannah returns from a six-week business trip to Scotland with Colin, her fiancé, in tow (Kevin McKidd), you’re happy that she has someone who appreciates and loves her for who she is, not someone like Tom who has taken her for granted for the last ten years. When Hannah asks Tom to be her maid of honor, Tom agrees, thinking he can disrupt Hannah’s plans more if he’s on the inside. But even this rather novel idea doesn’t enliven the movie.
There are no scenes of Tom and Hannah together to illustrate their ‘falling in love” although you know that Tom and Hannah are comfortable with each other’s foibles. Rather than develop these two through more of their conversations and actions, script writers Adam Sztykiel and Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont prefer to take the easy way out: they have Tom tell you how he feels. And after seeing Patrick Dempsey in “Enchanted,” an exceptional romantic comedy, it’s hard to accept him in anything less. At the heart of “Made of Honor” is a tepid romance that’s scarcely worth seeing. (5/9/08)
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