"27 Dresses" ** (out of four): Katherine Heigl is all dressed up with nowhere to go in Anne Fletcher's embarrassingly trite romantic comedy about wedding bell blues.

It's a good time to be Katherine Heigl. The Emmy-winning statuesque actress has played the smack-worthy Izzie Stevens on "Grey's Anatomy" for four seasons and charmed moviegoers in Judd Apatow's crude crowd-pleaser "Knocked Up." She now continues her plight to be the next Julia Roberts with "27 Dresses," a film that shows why she should be the new reigning queen of the rom-com. She's a knockout without seeming snobby, playful without seeming phony. In short, hard to resist.

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