Thursday 12 January 2012

What's Your Number (US) - Predictable Recycle Romantic-Comedy


What's Your Number
Synopsis:
The movie started and centers around Ally Darling (Anna Faris) who was just ditched by her latest boyfriend, Rick Perry (Zachary Quinto) after Ally suggested he meet her parents. Things started to get worse when she was fired from her job by Roger (Joel McHale). On her way home in a subway, Ally come across a magazine with an article about "What's Your Number" where the average women in the US slept with an average of 11.5 men in their lifetime and according to the article, it says that if the number is over 20, they will never get married and spent the life as a spinster. Ally decided to recall all her ex-boyfriends that she slept with and found it to be 19, which she breathe with relief. While celebrating her sister's Daisy bachelor night in a bar, she got drunk and ended up sleeping with her ex-boss Roger. As she felt that her number must not go beyond 20, she decided to track down her ex-boyfriends in hoping that some will turn out better and be the one she will marry. To track all her boyfriend down, she seek the help of her womanizer neighbor, Colin Shea (a very buff Chris Evans) who happens to like her and wanted to sleep with her. However, Ally maintain her strict policy of not having another number 21 boyfriend and decided to spun his advances. While meeting her ex-boyfriends who turns out not the way she wanted, she began to fall for Colin but the arrival of her 1st love, Jake Adams (Dave Annable) a handsome, rich and still available complicated the matter. 
Review:
I guess you do not need me to tell you how the movie ended - since this is a typical comedy-romantic movie, it finally ended on a happy note. There are only a very very handful of good US romantic-comedy that really touches me and unfortunately this is not one of them. The movie tries too hard to be funny but most often, it was not funny and many predictable comedic sequence especially since Anna Faris is famous for her Scary Movie role. While Chris Evans is handsome, there was no real spark between his character, Colin and Ally. Overall, this is just an average romantic comedy movie that we have seen a dozen times, quite a forgettable movie for me.  
Verdict:
I give this a 2 star out of 5

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