What's your number? Movie review
Jan. 10th, 2012 03:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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"What's your number" - Young Ally Davis (Anna Faris) learns that the average woman does not have more than 10.5 lovers in her entire life after loosing her job at a marketing agency. Shocked because of her already having slept with 20 guys without finding Mr. Right she goes on a journey to search for all of her exboyfriends to see if there is any marriage material to be found. She is helped by her neighbour Colin (Chris Evans and yes he was the only reason to watch this film) who is incapable of telling his various sex partners good bye and uses Ally's apartment as a hideout until the unwanted guests in his flat disappear.
So what we have here is a cute little romcom.
Oh my God, I fucking hate those.
And still, this movie had me laugh my bloody ass off and had me swooning over sexy Chris Evans (because you just don't say no to Captain America on the right because the one on the left is Thor and you don't say him no either but that's not the point of this entry) and rooting for Ally to finally find her way in life.
The film is good for what it is: a good natured not too deep flick for romance and it wins because of his attractive characters and the really neat scenery. Ally always looks perfect not only because of her fancy dresses but because she is friendly, nice and a character to relate to who is trying really hard to fit into the image everyone has of her: her mother, her sister, her friends who see her as a slut because of her promiscuity. Her journey from insecure to self confident is predictable but cute nonetheless and the snarky dialogue makes up for the plotholes most of the time. She even remarks one time that her actions are "Bullshit!" and basically wins.
Chris Evans goes without saying, he is awesome and a puppy and he has chest hair in this movie (you cannot imagine how ... betrayed I felt in Captain America to see him stumble out of the machine like this: pumped up and fine and manboobs but no friggin' chest hair? Come on guys, the bloke does have more testosterone than blood in his body, he clearly shouldn't be clean shaved!!)
Uh, where was i? Right, Chris Evans:
Also he is naked a good 90% of the time and yes that is a reason to like this film, shut up thank you.
The biggest portion of the movie is of course Ally and the meeting ups with her exboyfriends and yes, most of the encounters are funny and well-written.
What I especially liked was that none of the embarassing scenes were played out too long. I'm not very fond of watching people suffer not even in a comical sense so I was grateful that none of the scenes were overly painful to watch.
One of the encounters was especially awesome:
Basically because Martin Freeman was one of the exboyfriends and...
oh my God, it was Martin motherfucking Freeman what more do I have to say? Fuck you, he won a BAFTA! I mean, his character wasn't all that developed he was basically the British guy "because we needed one and wasn't there this one famous little man?" but it totally made the movie for me (pinku had to witness my uncontrolled wailing xD).
The relationship between Ally and Colin was portrayed nicely, too, they took their time and Colin was respectful of her especially when it came to her sexual desires which should go without saying but then again there are still enough people out there who take advantage and don't know the meaning of "no" so it was nice to see a guy back off immediately
Yeah so all in all it was a nice movie but I wouldn't be myself if there was this one little thing bugging me and that's just how Hollywood always manages it to fuck everything up with the ending of such movies:
The scene in question shows Ally and Colin happily together smooching on the bed when suddenly one of Ally'y exboyfriends calls and tells her that she never had sex with him which then leads to Ally jumping up and down on the bed because now Colin is "only" her number 20 and everything is fine because 20 is the magical number.
Why is this so bad?
Because it destroys everything Ally worked for: being accepted for who she really is. She stills depends on the opinion of others, the magical number 20 is a real relief for her instead of her brushing it off as the silly thing it actually is and saying "Fuck you, I sleep with whom I want and no one can stop me."
I surely don't expect a romcom to give an accurate portrayal of womankind but this ending totally bugged me because of how easily it could have been avoided. ARGHS!
Anyway, I still like this movie because of reasons mainly Chris Evans being naked and his cute puppily self.
So, if you are in for some romantic comedy to brighten your day hot guys and a cameo of John Watson in the US included go to the cinema and watch "What's your number?".
(Oh fuck it, have this picture of awesomeness just because I cannot contain myself any longer: Why is it not May 4th yet?
Btw: this is part one of my project to review at least fifteen movies in 2012 (Avengers does count as 10 movies), so you can await a year full of ranting and screaming and obviously those reviews are not going to get me into film school but it's all in good fun. =D
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Date: 2012-01-10 10:34 am (UTC)This is no Bridget Jones, this is no Bridget, Bridget...
Ich hab auch überlegt, den Film zu gucken, aber vielleicht gehts eher in Richtung Dvd :D
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Date: 2012-01-10 10:52 am (UTC)(Und hier ein weiteres Argument because unf und noch eins because that towel is very nice to look at, yes. )
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Date: 2012-01-10 11:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-10 05:56 pm (UTC)Wunderschönes Handtuch, da vergisst man fast die Umgebung. Fast xDD Der Blick ist aber am coolsten, bei beiden Bildern :D
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Date: 2012-01-10 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-10 06:34 pm (UTC)But you get this instead (without RDJ obviously but I couldn't be bothered to find a more suitable gif xD)
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Date: 2012-01-10 06:44 pm (UTC)Und das gif ist herrlich. XD Bin im Moment auf der Suche nach "Sherlock"-gifs, da gabs so viele Sachen, die sich dafür einfach anbieten.^^