Tom Bailey (Patrick Dempsey) and Hannah (Michelle Monaghan) look lovable in Made of Honor
Tom and Hannah met in a costume party when he accidentally slipped in her bed thinking it was her roommate, "Monica". She was honest and feisty when he asked her about what she thinks about him which nonetheless has made Tom pretty impressed by it.
Ten years later, Tom (Patrick Dempsey) becomes successful in life and quite loaded due to his invention of the “coffee collar” of which the idea has popped up when he met Hannah a decade ago. Tom is a playboy who sleeps with different girl every day of the week and occassionally plays basketball with his guy friends. His best friend is no other than Hannah (Michelle Monaghan). They always date on Sunday including going to antique stores together and guessing each other desserts at a well-known bakery.
It seems that Tom takes Hannah for granted until she goes to Scotland on an acquisition trip for her museum and returns with a wealthy Scottish, Colin McMurray (Kevin McKidd). Hannah asks Tom to be her "maid" of honor since he is her best friend and he tells her he’ll think about it until his guy friends convince him to agree in order to win her back. Hannah tells Tom that she is going to move to Scotland to be with Colin and never coming back to New York City. While in Scotland, Tom plans to tell Hannah he loves her. During Hannah’s bachelorette party, they share a passionate kiss, before Hannah gets whisked off by her bridesmaids. That night, Hannah goes up to Tom’s room to talk to him.
But before she arrives, Hannah’s cousin, Melissa (Busy Phillips) who Tom ditched, comes into Tom’s room and attempts to seduce him after having too much whiskey. Hannah walks into the room only to find Melissa is on top of Tom. Tom and Hannah ends up having an argument and Tom leaves for home. But on his way, he decides to rush back to stop the wedding when he bumps into a dog of whom he could easily say "I love you" to but not to a human — which reminds him of the things Hannah once told him. Tom borrows a horse in exchange for part of his coffee collar royalties and manages to make it to the chapel just in time but he crashes onto the parlour floor. When he wakes up, Hannah and Tom both kiss. Hannah finally decides to cancel the marriage and marry Tom back in New York City.
Well, it may be another romantic comedy, but this film sure rocks. Lighthearted, funny and engaging to watch.
In an animated world of Andalasia, Giselle is a beautiful young woman who lives in a forest dreaming of her one true love, singing along with the birds, rats and other animals. Prince Edward hears her singing and they fall in love immediately and plan to wed the following morning.
Prince Edward’s step-mother the queen who is also a witch wants the threat to her crown removed so she plots a scheme to get rid of Giselle. On the day Giselle is supposed to wed Prince Edward, Queen Narissa disguises as a wicked old woman who pushes Giselle down a well where she enters the ‘real’ world of New York.
In New York, Giselle (Amy Adams) meets a divorce attorney, Robert Philip (Patrick Dempsey) who is about to become engaged to Nancy (Idina Menzel) and his 6-year-old daughter.
Prince Edward kneeling down in front of Giselle
A lot of funny moments happen between the time Giselle waits for her prince charming, Prince Edward to rescue her. As the story goes on, both Robert and Giselle unconsciously fall in love with each other.
In order to stop Prince Edward from finding his true love, Giselle, Queen Narissa sends Nathaniel (Timothy Spall) to the real world to stop them by giving her poisoned apple. After Nathaniel fails in numerous attempts, Queen Narissa comes to the real world in her last attempt to break up the couple.
When Queen Narissa finally manages to poison Giselle, only true love’s kiss can wake Giselle up. Prince Edward tries to kiss Giselle several times but to no avail. When Robert kisses her, it takes awhile before she wakes up. Thereafter, sparks by her angers, Queen Narissa turns into a blue dragon and kidnaps Robert. She climbs up the building to the highest floor. Giselle kills the queen with Prince Edward’s sword in order to save Robert from certain doom. Edward returns to the animated world with Nancy and Giselle stays in New York with Robert and his daughter and they all live happily ever after.
Overall, it’s a humorous romantic film with great laughters throughout the movie. Though fairytale does not happen in real life, it does not need to be complicated. In one occasion, Giselle manages to bring a couple back from the brink of divorce and reunite the couple to the once lovey-dovey state they were in.
Moral of the story:
Don’t fall in love with anyone and get married after one day
Have as many dates with each other in order to understand each other
All relationships have problems and hardships – it’s worth it to face all the problems and hardships for the good return, just like a business and its ROI… LoL!
