Movie Review

“Made of Honor”

Tom Bailey is wealthy, inventor of the “coffee collar”, the man among his guy friends and a swinging bachelor with handsome good looks. He has no problems meeting women and sleeping with a different lady every week, governed by a set of rules which dictates he cannot sleep with the same woman on consecutive weeknights. He met his best friend Hannah (Michelle Monaghan) through a case of mistaken identity while jumping into her bed instead of his intended love tryst. When Hannah goes to Scotland on a business trip for six weeks, Tom realizes he feels empty without her and decides to tell Hannah his feelings and ask her to be with him when she returns.

But events turn against him when Colin McMurray, a Duke and rich Scotsman sweeps Hannah off her feet and asks for her hand in marriage. His worst fear unfolds in front of him, Tom must now witness her unquestioned happiness up close and personal because she's chosen him to be her ‘Maid Of Honor’ and he agrees so he can try to win Hannah back and stop the wedding. Throughout the movie he made feeble attempts such as ruining her bridal shower playing bag pipes and serving pig lungs (Haggis) saying she should get used to it because of their popularity in Scotland. He also has to deal with others less tolerable such as Hannah's cousin Melissa who wanted to be her maid of honor since childhood and had her heart broken by Tom, like many other girls.

The bridesmaids and the bride went on a Scottish tradition called “Selling of Kisses” for change in a local pub and there, our love birds shared a deep, passionate kiss of epic proportion. It set off questions of their friendship and could there be love brewing all this while. Tom leaves the castle when he feels it was a lost cause to win Hannah back. But he was reminded, just in time by a border collie to rush off in the direction of the church. In the end Hannah realizes that Tom is the man of her dreams and leaves Colin at the altar in order to get married to Tom.

Somehow, this movie might be interpreted as the male version of “My Best Friend’s Wedding” but with a reunited ending to set things right. I loved the charming interaction of Tom and Hannah especially when they were at his Father’s wedding and enjoying a day in town, queuing for cake. The movie is thoroughly enjoying without being overbearing. Ratings are 3 out of 5.