I saw the trailer for this really good looking film starring the lead comic actress from the Scary Movie franchise, and it looked really good, and I was happy to see it rated well, so I had to see the film, from director Mark Mylod (Ali G Indahouse, The Big White). Basically Ally Darling (Anna Faris) is a serial dater with many relationships in her past, and what they all have in common is that they do not last more than one night or a few days, and her latest Rick (Heroes' Zachary Quinto) is no different. She one day buys herself a womens' magazine, and reads a very worrying article that a doctor has conducted a study that concludes if a woman has slept with more than twenty men there is very little chance that she will get married. Remembering all the men Ally has been with she is feeling low when she totals up to nineteen men, so with her friends she makes a promise to herself that the next man she gets with will be her true love. Of course she is devastated to wake up next to another man, Roger her Boss (Joel McHale),and this is the final straw for her, she decides she should look back on all the men she got with and see whether any of them were right for her in a further relationship. Ally makes a deal with her apartment neighbour Colin Shea (Chris Evans),who has a speciality for locating people anywhere in the world, that if he helps her locate all the men she has been with, he is allowed to hide in her apartment from his many one night stand women. This deal gets under way and he manages to find out lots about the nineteen men she remembers, of course the dead ones she does not need to worry about, and the ones who are already married, but there are a few left who may still be single. Ally gets back in touch with and spends time with her exes to see how it goes, including Disgusting Donald (Chris Pratt) who is now slim, British gent Simon (Martin Freeman) who is confused by her fake English accent, puppeteer Gerry Perry (Andy Samberg),and Tom Piper (Anthony Mackie) who realised after her he was gay. While all this is all going on she is also helping out her sister Daisy (Ari Graynor) preparing as she is getting married to her long time boyfriend, and of course she is her maid of honour. Obviously as Ally spends more time with Colin he tries to convince her that she shouldn't worry about her "number", that she finds her very attractive, and they are slowly becoming closer than friends, to the point when they kiss passionately. It is when he has found the one man she may have truly felt for that he may not give her the details as they are so close, she obviously is maddened by this and is sure that she is doing the right thing by finding the man. After finding out Colin is attending a wedding Ally rushes to find her at one, crashing a few on the way, she is relieved to see he is performing on stage for the reception, she confesses her love for him, and in the end she gets a phone call from one of her past men confirming that they did not sleep together, so Colin in number twenty. Also starring Meet the Parents' Blythe Danner as Ava Darling, Mike Vogel as Dave Hansen, Ed Begley Jr. as Mr. Darling and Miss Congeniality's Heather Burns as Eileen. Faris gives a charming performance that is funny, sassy and in moments heartfelt as well, Evans is also likable as the man who clearly is more suited for her than the other guys she reconnects with, the scenes between them spark and crackle with witty dialogue, the whole film is full of this great scripting, there are the occasional gasps and the emotional core, but this is a fantastically fun romantic comedy. Very good!
What's Your Number?
2011
Action / Comedy / Romance
What's Your Number?
2011
Action / Comedy / Romance
Plot summary
Ally is a woman who has many ex-boyfriends who turned out to be losers. Now she believes that she can't find a good guy. But when she runs into one of her exes who is now a 'Prince Charming', she decides to look up all of her exes to see if any of them have changed for the better. When she has trouble locating them, she asks her neighbor Colin, who sleeps with a different women every night and sneaks out the morning after to avoid talking to them, to help her.
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What's Your Number?
Anna Faris shines
Ally Darling (Anna Faris) is struggling with her love life. At a bachelorette party, she finds out that her number of sex partners is higher than everybody else. Desperate to prove that she's not a slut, she refuses to allow the number to rise any further. The only solution is to return to her exes to see if she could work it out with any of them.
Anna Faris does her Anna Faris cutest. At her best, she could infuse a movie with incredible energy. Here she tries really hard. There is a lot bodied humor. It might be even better if they really push the envelope. Chris Evans plays up his douchiness a little too much. After all, like all rom-com, he needs to be rehabilitated so that he can get with the girl. This has a few chuckles mostly due to the Faris charm.
Ignoble Story with Fake Reviews
In Boston, the promiscuous Ally Darling (Anna Faris) is fired from her job in a marketing company. When her sister Daisy (Ari Graynor) is arranging her wedding party, Ally reads a research in a women magazine stating that women that have slept with more than twenty guys usually do not get married. Ally counts her affairs and realizes that she has slept with exactly twenty boyfriends. Ally decides that the next man that she sleeps with will be her husband.
Ally decides to seek out her former boyfriends and asks her next door neighbor, the womanizer Colin Shea (Chris Evans),to help her to find them to check whether any of them has improved his life. Ally gets close to Colin that encourages her to dedicate to make clay sculptures instead of working in a regular job. Meanwhile Ally meets Jake Adams (Dave Annable),who was her sweetheart in high school and now is a successful businessman. She believes she has found her Prince Charming, but she concludes that she loves the twentieth-one.
"What's Your Number?" is a dull romantic comedy with an ignoble story and fake reviews promoting this film. When I see a comedy and do not laugh, something is wrong. In this case, the storyline is awful. A slut reads a research in a magazine with the maximum number of men that a woman might have slept with to succeed in getting married and she decides to change her sex life to find a husband.
The face and voice of Anna Faris are weird and she looks like a grown-up Barbie. Yesterday I saw "Bridesmaid" and the beginning of these films are very similar, with a promiscuous woman waking-up with a man on her side after one-night stand and inviting him to go to her sister's wedding with her. Also in common is that both are terrible films. My vote is three.
Title (Brazil): "Qual Seu Número?" ("What's Your Number?")