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Made of Honor

Score: 80%
Rating: PG-13
Publisher: Sony Pictures Home
                  Entertainment

Region: A
Media: Blu-ray/1
Running Time: 101 Mins.
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Audio: English, French, Portuguese
           Dolby TrueHD 5.1, Spanish, Thai
           5.1

Subtitles: English, English SDH, French,
           Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese
           (Traditional), Chinese
           (Simplified), Thai, Korean,
           Hindi, Indonesian


Features:

  • Director's Commentary
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Featurettes:
    • "Save the Date" Making-of
    • "Three Weddings and a Skyline"
  • BD-LIve

Made of Honor really is a precious romantic comedy for anyone that enjoys a good love story.

10 years ago, Tom Bailey (Patrick Dempsey from Grey's Anatomy and Enchanted) went to a college party to find a girl who invited him into her dorm. But when he got to her room and snuggled up to her, she jumped out of bed and threw him out. Turns out, this wasn't the woman he was looking for; instead, it was an art major named Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), and the two have been best friends ever since.

Now, Tom is a self-made millionaire because he invented the cardboard rings Starbucks puts around the coffee cups and Hannah restores paintings at the local museum. They spend their Sundays together looking at antiques, going to a specific bakery and just talking about life in general, especially Tom's latest bed-time achievements.

When Hannah is asked to take a business trip to Scotland for several weeks, and communication between the pair during that time is strenuous at best, Tom starts to realize that he has had feelings for Hannah and can't wait for her to return so he can tell her. But it's not meant to be when Hannah returns on the arm of a Scottish duke named Colin McMurray (Kevin McKidd), with wedding bells in their ears. And, to add insult to injury, Hannah asks Tom to be her Maid of Honor.

After consulting his friends (which includes Kadeem Hardison from A Different World), he decides to take the position. First, he attempts to make her realize how little she knows about the man and attempts to sabotage the wedding that way, but when that starts to put Tom in a bad light, he goes for the other extreme, become the best Maid of Honor there is. After all, "The perfect Maid of Honor is with her bride at all times," at least that's what the instructional video he uses says.

Since it's a romantic comedy, you can pretty much predict the ending, but I don't want to spoil the details for you. But it really is a fun and heartwarming ride. While the Blu-ray version definitely stands out as far as visuals are concerned (especially the expansive Scottish landscapes), outside of that, there isn't a whole lot to drive you to the high def media over DVD. There aren't a lot of special features. There is a pair of deleted scenes (yes, only two), a director's commentary and two featurettes. Though I have to say I enjoyed "Three Weddings and a Skyline" which talks about the set design for the three weddings that show up in the movie, Tom's dad's at the beginning, and the ones that take place in New York and Scotland.

While I will say that you pretty much have to see Made of Honor, at least if you like Romantic Comedies, I don't know that it's worth owning on Blu-ray. I'm pretty sure it's one of those movies I could watch over and over again and not get tired of, but there just isn't enough here to says it has to be in high definition.



-J.R. Nip, GameVortex Communications
AKA Chris Meyer

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