A glance at the film's cover, which shows the star Patrick Dempsey with digitally-enhanced blue eyes, is enough to start alarm bells sounding. This is a film that capitalises on the twinkly charms that have seduced legions of McDreamy (Dempsey's character in Grey's Anatomy) fans, but will fail to attract any new ones. It's My Best Friend's Wedding but without the laughs.
The best friends Tom (Dempsey) and Hannah (Michelle Monaghan) are in love with each other; but Tom has a few commitment issues, and soon Hannah, thinking her love is unrequited, finds comfort in the arms of a big, blonde Scot called Colin (Kevin McKidd).
By the time the penny finally drops for Tom, there is a wedding to be sabotaged. "What are we going to do?" he chants with his friends. "Steal the bride!" Except we don't want him to. He's smug and irritating and Colin is a much better catch. Even when he mounts a horse (yes, really) to gallop to the church and save his love from Colin's clutches (who we're meant to hate by now because he hunts and doesn't share his pudding), we're willing the horse to bolt and for Tom to sink without trace into the icy waters of the loch.
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