Made Of Honour (12a)

May 2 2008 By Graham Young

JUST A decade after My Best Friend's Wedding starred Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz, along comes a remake which offers a reversal of fortune.

Back in 1997, Miss Roberts' Julianne couldn't believe she was about to let her man Michael (Dermot Mulroney) slip through her fingers to a woman who had only known him for five minutes.

Here, Grey's Anatomy and Enchanted star Patrick Dempsey plays Tom, a wealthy playboy and commitment phobe.

Now 32, The Bourne Supremacy star Michelle Monaghan is his despairing best friend, Hannah, who asks him to be her 'maid of honour'.

Realising there might be more to life than sleeping around, will Tom have left it too late to make a big impression on Michelle now that she's asked him to be the equivalent of a best man?

Directed by former advertising king Paul Weiland (Roseanna's Grave / Sixty Six), the climax is set in Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye, so at least the scenery is an improvement.

But Made of Honour is relatively low on characterisation and dramatic tension, down to its inevitable running gay gags (previously provided by Rupert Everett).

Its predictability means that for male viewers in particular, the film will be found relying too heavily on the now 42-year-old Dempsey's natural charm - and appearance in a kilt - in its bid to stay on the right side of the boredom threshold.