27 Dresses (2008), Over Her Dead Body (2008), One Missed Call (2008)

27 Dresses. A very definite chick film, it had all the formulas from the Great Book of Romantic Comedy Genre played out that nobody would missed any mark in guessing where does this film would ended up. Probably the only reason for seeing this film was Katherine Heighl. This is her sole vehicle, everyone in this film knows about it, and nobody wanted (or not strong enough) to steal her torch and most importantly, she was up for the challenge.

Kat plays a beautiful young woman verging on an obsession with Wedding that she took the task for organizing wedding of her friends seriously and more. She had a long live crush with her boss, Ed Burns but for unknown reasons, she was too shy to tell (how could she?). But then, her model and sultry sister came and Ed falls over her, and then soon to be married. Of course, Kat was the one who would organized her wedding. Meanwhile, there's this guy, James Mardsen, a cynical reporter whom we know from the very first minute would ended up with Kat in the end.

Beside Kat's near perfect performance in lead role, this film worked well albeit it was formulaic, and cliche, because of the chemistry between Kat and James. Now, this is coming from a man who really don't get James at all. I mean, i don't like his X-Man's role, and when i saw his name in this film, i had doubts. But it turns out that he was okay, and could really up to keep in par with Kat. Not to a point where he would steal Kat's torch, as this film is solely hers and hers alone

My Rating: **1/2 / **** - Formulaic but likeable

Over Her Dead Body. First of all, Eva Longoria and Paul Rudd? Not convincing. Lake Bell? Not good enough. And i personally hate any film that involves any fart-related jokes. As with any Romcom genre, no surprises of where the film would ended. The question would always be the same. "Does the journey good enough?". I would say "no" to this film.

Eva and Paul were about to get married. But an accident befelled on Eva during the preparation of their wedding. She was dead. A year later, to get him moving on from his grief, Paul's sister introduces him to Lake, a psychic to help him out. And what started out as a faking premonition that invovles the late Eva's diary turns out to be a blossoming feeling between the two (although i don't see it convincingly enough). Things turns hairy when Eva, all dead, shows up and determined to keep Paul from dating Ashley.

I felt the lack of chemistry between Lake and Paul was perpetual, and even verging to disturbing at times (one clear example, the 'extended' fart-jokes. Damn that was so unnecessary). That's why this film would ended up as one of those time-waster film where you seen it almost without any involvement. Once you're done, then you're done.

My Rating: *1/2 / **** - Boring

One Missed Call. It's almost safe to say, i think that almost every horror films released nowadays were rated PG-13. I prefer my dosage of horror films, or films that intended to disturb and shakes its audience with scary and haunting things, to be rated R or even better, NC-17. Really, watching a PG-13 horror films would feels like watching a porn film without any nudity whatsoever. Not really worth any time.

Based on a Japanese horror film, Chakusin Ari released many years ago (i've seen it, and loathed it. Thus, the decision to did a remake on it was really a 'huh?' for me). A bunch of teenagers received a missed-call in their cell, a voice-mail of their very own voices, dated two days in the future. Then, at the exact time of the recorded voice-mail, the one who receives a missed-call would be dead. Shannyn Sossamon was sharp enough (or crazy enough) to quickly concludes the pattern of her dead friends. Together with Ed Burns, a cop whose sister was one of the first victim of the missed-call voodoos, before long she was knee-deep in the mystery.

This film is purely supernatural. No flesh-and-blood killer devising inticrate plots to hunt down these teenagers and put the finger to the mystical beings, no logic required to explains the missed-call thingy, nor does any logic provided by the film to unravelled the mystery. It is simply the work of supernatural beings. I mean, how could you explained a live call made into a cellphone which its only source of power has been removed?. This film probably works best to a bunch of teenagers who had nothing else to do on a Saturday evening, and has no other choices although i had a pretty good reason that they would busy texting with their cells before long. This film is not even worth renting.

My Rating: 1/2 / **** - Not worth your time