Made of Honor

My first memory of Patrick Dempsey was when he was all of 25 years young in a movie called Run (remember that movie starring Sanjay Dutt & Urmila titled Daud? Now you know that even the name was ripped off). That was over 20 years back. But most of you would know him as McDreamy a.k.a. Dr.Sheperd from Grey’s Anatomy. Well, for those who fall in the latter category, let me assure you that Dempsey’s repertoire extends far beyond the walls of Seattle Grace Hospital.

Made of Honor (MoH) is one of Dempsey’s more recent movies. He plays the role of the Casanova – Tom, who is best friends with Hannah (Michelle Monaghan). Yep. They have never heard of that Salman Khan one liner – Ek Jawan Ladka aur Ek Jawan Ladki kabhi dost nahin ho sakte (A young man and a young girl can never be “just friends”).

Or hasn’t he? Over a casual conversation with his friends, Tom realizes that the years that he has spent with Hannah, since their college days, are actually a good enough indication that he should consider moving from being just friends to much more. All of this, when Hannah is in Scotland for some personal work for over a month.

Tom lands up @ the airport specifically with the intent of telling that it is time to move to the next level. But instead, he is introduced to Colin (Kevin McKidd) – a Scottish Lord, an owner of a distillery and a lot of land in Scotland, with a line of royalty of sorts in the family and most importantly, Hannah’s fiancé. The wedding is in 15 days. And guess who is going to be the MoH and therefore best placed to break up a wedding?

Paul Weiland has been a Television director for most of his life and his claim to fame can be only some parts of the Mr. Bean series. So, I guess it was expected to have a TV like feel and nothing spectacular in terms of direction. With that expectation you would not fall short. In fact with that expectation, MoH is a very reasonable movie. Average on most counts and feel good at the end of it all.

The movie does have some interesting points (cannot call them high points). Patrick Dempsey juggling China, Kevin McKidd dunking in a basketball game, and of course the Scottish strongman tradition (amongst several others) where Tom fails miserably to say the least. But the best has to be Grandma Pearl and her pleasure beads. And of course – riding a horse into the altar as part of the climax. 6 on 10 for all of these.

Watch the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3081896217/