Enjoying some good free time with my family as my wife is on vacation and my schedule is a little more free. Wonderful.
We rented a heap of movies yesterday and watched two.

The Other Boleyn Girl - really good - B +
Very creative expression of one novelist's interpretation of how things went down in King Henry VIII's court. Proposes that one very ambitious family, the Boleyns, used its women to exploit Queen Catherine's infertility and the lack of a male heir. Amazing how so much of Western history has changed because of Henry and his zipper problem. I had always thought of Henry's problem as an overweening sense of self and pride. The writer here proposes that it may have been his lust that was his undoing. Deadly sins sure are deadly.
Entertaining and provocative. Nataline Portman portrays Anne Boleyn with passion and depth.

27 Dresses - predictable, trite, and very, very average. D
The creators were not creative. Replicators is more like it. The script from every romantic comedy ever written has been plagiarized and piecemealed into this 90 minute movie that felt like 4 hours. Plus, we are asked to believe that Katharine Heigl has been the unnoticed also-ran sister for her entire life of 30+/- years. Not even worthy of being called a chick flick. More like a dud.