I'm going to preface this review with a disclaimer of sorts. I despise romantic comedies. I rarely watch them and when I do, it's usually to appease my mother or my sister, who both live roughly 3500 miles away from me and who I rarely see. Taking this into account, it shouldn't surprise anyone that I don't see very many of them. My wife despises them as well so it's an extremely rare occasion that I watch one from start to finish. I'd rather watch something with ninjas and/or zombies in it (or preferably both), and they rarely appear in films like Lucky Seven. I have no idea how or why I ended up reviewing this one, but I did and you're stuck with it. With that out of the way…

Amy Meyer's (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) mother, Rachel (Gail O'Grady), died when from cancer she was seven years old, but before she left this earthly plain, she made a timeline for Amy that she wanted her to follow. Included in this timeline is the notation that Amy will have to wed her seventh boyfriend (see where the movie gets it's title now?).

Unfortunately for Amy, she falls head over heels in love with bachelor number six, Daniel (Brad Rowe), and feeling quite distraught over this, as up until now she'd been following her mother's timeline to reasonably successful results (she finished law school and is on her way living the good life as a lawyer! Hurray for lawyers!). So, Amy's dilemma now is whether or not she should follow her late mother's advice and head off to marry bachelor number seven, or whether she should follow the path that her heart tells her to take, and run off to be with bachelor number six.

She quickly gives Daniel the old heave-ho and it's off to number seven she runs, who turns up in the form of hunky bagel store owner, Peter (Patrick Dempsey), hoping that before she gets serious with Daniel she can get Peter out of her system so that Daniel will in fact turn out to be number seven.

And that's more or less it.

The movie is pretty much standard fare. It's predictable, and it's sickeningly sweet. It wasn't my bag at all. BUT, I can see how those who do enjoy this type of movie might get something out of it. The performances are reasonably good – Williams-Paisley in particular is quite likeable in the lead role despite her occasional ditzy moment, and she sure is fun to look at. Dempsey does ok as well in his role, as does Rowe and they both turn in respectable efforts with what was, in my opinion, a script that was probably average at best.

Video:

Lucky Seven is given an anamorphic widescreen transfer (1.78.1, to be precise) that actually looks surprisingly good. It's a little soft in a few spots, but for the most part, colors are nice and bright and there is a consistently high level of detail throughout the film. Compression artifacts are nowhere to be scene and print damage is almost non-existent.