Let me come right out of the gate and say that this is certainly no warmed-over retread of My Best Friend's Wedding. Similar as the two may seem on the surface, Made of Honor sports some remarkably fresh sequences for a romantic comedy that is relatively formulaic on a whole. Having said all that, I will admit to some slight disappointment in the film, probably because I had such sky-high hopes for it to begin with.

But the honest truth is that there is plenty to enjoy; McDreamy and the lovely Michelle Monaghan certainly know their respective ways around scripts like these, and they both take full advantage of their characters' idiosyncrasies, Tom with his 'rules' of dating and social interaction, in particular. Hannah is, in many ways, the ideal woman, and if there is one thing about the film that falls outside the realm of believability, it is that Tom would go all these years without ever acknowledging her as such. Still, no one ever accused this man-whore of anything but short-sightedness, so even that works on some level. The script also dodged a bullet with its portrayal of Colin, Hannah's new Scottish fiancee, as fully likable and engaging, rather than succumbing to the usual expectation of a boorish and overbearing side character-slash-human plot obstacle.

And while Made of Honor won't be known as a laugh riot either, it also did not rely too much on the obvious gay jokes you'd expect when calling for a male Maid of Honor. It certainly had its juvenile moments, of course, and some of the crude humor was a bit over the top even for a PG-13 outing, but it does get some good, solid laughs out of some pretty unlikely places, so points for that as well.

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