What’s Your Number

What’s Your Number, starring Anna Faris and Chris Evans, is about a woman in her early thirties searching for her true love in her previous twenty relationships she has had earlier in life.

The movie kicks off as Ally Darling (Anna Faris) picks up a women’s magazine about how many men the average woman has slept with.  In the magazine, the national average is about ten which shocks Ally because she has slept with a whopping twenty different men.  This puts her in despair until she stumbles across one of her ex-boyfriends who has changed dramatically since their breakup.  The once fat and overweight disgusting Donald transformed into a sleek, slender, and handsome man who has found love with a strikingly beautiful women.

Right about here was the point that I felt that movie seemed a bit pathetic.  After meeting Donald, Ally hopes to search for her other exes and tries to rekindle the fire with them.  It was pretty hard to watch a middle aged woman be so insecure about herself, that she would be willing to look for old ex-boyfriends rather than setting off to find someone else new.

That’s not funny. That’s just plain sad.  The first half of the movie was hard to watch due to the overplayed plot: a single woman looking for her one lover.  On top of that, I don’t believe that Anna Faris aptly played the role of Ally Darling. The one major quirk about the movie that I didn’t like was that Anna Faris played the leading role. Sure, she’s good in funny, mundane movies that people laugh at because the movie is so dim-witted, but I had second thoughts about even watching the movie due to the kind of movies she usually acts in.  Most of her acting felt forced and unnatural; although, there were some parts in the movie where she was able to pull off her character, but those instances were rare.  Also, with twenty exes to keep track of, it seemed like more of a checklist to fit as many guys into the movie, rather than a search for number twenty, Ally Darlings true love.  There’s not much to say about this film other than it’s just another chick flick; however it’s definitely NOT A Walk to Remember.