MOVIE REVIEW - What's Your Number

Anna Faris has a new comedy out this week, What's Your Number. Seldom will you see a movie with about the same amount of good and bad in the same 100 minutes.

Faris, is a funny woman that I feel is way funnier than the projects that she gets tangled up in. I thought she was very funny in House Bunny, and a few others. Great movies? No. But she usually holds up her end of the bargain. That goes for What's Your Number. This is not a great movie, but thanks to Faris, it has some moments.

It's the story of a young woman in Boston named Ally (Faris). She has just been fired from her job she hated. Then she reads a magazine article that says the average woman has 10 lovers over the course of her life. She goes into a panic, because her number, while still single is almost double that. So at her younger sisters engagement party, Ally vows to not sleep with another man till she meets her future husband.

She then goes a step further by trying to contact her past lovers to see if there is still something there. She enlists her "dog" male neighbor from across the hall, Colin (Chris Evans) who has mad computer skills to track these men down. As they spend more time together you start to get the idea that Ally and Colin might end up together. What a surprise! So where will this whole thing go?

Let's clear out the bad first. Too predictable, too much of Faris trying too hard, and this needed another re-write. There are some really funny scenes and characters here. Too bad the lead characters aren't nearly as developed as the side ones. This idea, which is not great, could have been a lot better if some things were re-worked a bit. Would have helped too to write some snappier dialogue, and quit selling out to the constant references to body parts, and functions. That dialogue didn't add one thing to this story. And the theater didn't laugh at it. - Again.

But with that said, WYN does have some real good to it. Faris is wonderful at times, and funny, albeit she can be a bit fatiguing after a while. That is her Achilles heel. They do introduce us to characters that are highly representative of a whole lot of young adults today, in their lifestyle and interests. And a really up-to-date soundtrack is very well used at times that fits the movie like a glove. And yes, there area few real out loud laughs here. It's just a shame that a bit more care wasn't taken to really make an intelligent movie. With what they had in place, I'm not sure it would have been a whole lot of extra effort.

What's Your Number. Faris makes it pretty good, but the movie makers insisted on making it not as much so. Not a washout, just a wash. Looks and sounds like 20 other movies.