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How soon is too soon when it comes to a remake? Two years? Five years? Ten?

Made Of Honour is a gender-reversed revamp of the 1997 romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding, about a bed-hopping, commitment-shy 30-something who realises, almost too late, that he is in love with the only woman he hasn't slept with.

Invariably, this emotional lightning bolt strikes at the precise moment she is preparing to walk up the aisle... with another man.

Paul Weiland's film doesn't stray far too far from the original, except perhaps for the climactic nuptials set against the breathtaking loch-side setting of Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye.

A Highland Games sequence is a good excuse to dress leading man Patrick Dempsey in a most revealing mini-kilt as he struggles to get to grips with the traditional tests of strength and skill.

"A tree? We're tossing a tree!" he gasps, staring dumbfounded at a caber.

Dempsey plies his natural charm to sidestep obvious shortcomings in the script - weak characterisation, a lack of dramatic tension - and win our sympathy.

Luckily for him, his rival for the heroine's affections is devoid of personality.

Obscenely wealthy playboy Tom (Dempsey) ricochets from one fling to the next without any thoughts of commitment.

Best friend Hannah (Monaghan) despairs at his bed-hopping antics, especially since she has secretly loved him since they were at university.

Realising Tom will never reciprocate her feelings, Hannah leaves for a six-week business trip to Scotland, where she falls for and agrees to marry Colin McMurray (McKidd), whose family is regarded as local royalty.

During the trip, Tom realises that he cannot live without Hannah.

To add to Tom's woes, she asks him to be the maid of honour, working alongside bickering bridesmaids Melissa (Philipps), Whitney (Cummings) and Hilary (Nelson) to ensure her big day passes without a hitch.

Made Of Honour is as predictable as an unseemly scrabble for the bride's bouquet.

Fans of the leading man from Grey's Anatomy will undoubtedly swoon "I do" to every contrivance. Everyone else should take Made Of Honour with a generous pinch of confetti.

3:39pm Thursday 1st May 2008

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