He’s Just Not That Into You: And Neither Are We
Gigi (Ginnifer Goodwin of Big Love) wants to hear from a cute guy, Conor (Kevin Connolly of Entourage), with whom she had one date. Unbeknownst to her, Conor is hung up on Anna (Scarlett Johansson). While Gigi is trying to find Conor, she meets his roommate (Justin Long — Mac Guy from the commercials), who delivers to her, and the audience (lucky us), dozens of wit-free variations of the title. Apparently, if a guy doesn’t call, it’s because he doesn’t want to.
Still, Gigi makes excuses about Conor’s failure to call in many different scenes, including several at work (what she does for a living isn’t clear, but it’s something appropriately hip and groovy), where she unloads on two coworkers (Jennifer Aniston and Jennifer Connelly). Aniston has been living with a guy (Ben Affleck) for seven years because he doesn’t ever want to get married; Connelly is happily married to a music-biz pro (Bradley Cooper) who is friends with the Affleck character and strikes up a flirtation with the saucy Johansson at a grocery store. Somewhere in the background, practically in storage, is Drew Barrymore, who sells ads at a gay newspaper and is alarmed that guys she chats with online never seem to want to call her.
The movie runs a bit like an old union factory that is determined to get lots of people jobs but not require anybody to work too hard, least of all the screenwriters who have failed to give anybody anything interesting to say or any personality shadings. Gigi, for instance, is needy to the point of brain damage — her actions are equal to that famously cringe-making series of calls Jon Favreau made to a girl’s answering machine in Swingers, only Gigi’s antics last for an entire movie. And when the writers need sparks to fly, they have the actors say to each other, “You’re really hot” (Cooper to Johansson). Johansson responds by stripping naked.
If there is a bright side to this movie, it’s that Cary Grant did not live long enough to see it.
He’s Just Not That Into You
Directed by Ken Kwapis
Starring: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connelly, Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johansson
1 star/ 4
125 minutes/Rated PG-13
Ouch! Sounds like somebody had that particular phrase tossed at them one too many times for such a scathing review…Here I just thought it was supposed to be entertaining and not something you should base your love life on. Glad I read this before I go see it so I can have the proper disdain for it!
“If there is a bright side to this movie, it’s that Cary Grant did not live long enough to see it.”
Great line. Could have been the whole critique.
Unfortunately, the teens and 20 year olds would not understand it.
..movies like these make me glad I got old..
Hey, come on, the movie has BEN AFFLECK! It HAS to be good! He was in that great movie Pearl Harbor! He knows all about politics and supported Obama! He likes the Boston Red Sox! He is the total life heterosexual partner of MAAAAT DAAAAMON!
(excuse me while I puke, ignore this lame movie attempting to cash in on girls with low self-esteem, and go rent “300″)
The premiere party Monday night was fun. The fortune tellers were very intuitive and insightful, especially the palm reader, that man knew me like I know myself.
I’m going to see it tonight. I have a desire to escape reality and lose myself in stupidity. Atleast for 125 minutes I won’t be thinking about how our country is headed for hell under the supervision of our new leader.
Well, Scarlet did get naked, right? That’s worth something, yes? Like, about $1.00? Or free as a snippet on YouTube?
I am so sorry you had to see that, and am glad you did not gouge your own eyes out or spontaneously vomit or anything else that might have made the movie more bearable.
Thank you for warning all of us.
Who doesn’t know that if you have a date with someone who doesn’t maintain contact, you shouldn’t call him or her repeatedly and stalk their favorite lairs?
What?!! Why hasn’t anybody ever told me that before? That probably explains all those restraining orders.
I would not waste my time or money on this film.
took in 27mil this weekend, obviously somebody likes it very much.
Jennifer Connelly did a great job in He’s Not that Into You; the plot was solid overall too IMO — I personally was not surprising that this movie is based on a novel since movies based on novels tend to be better quality
“took in 27mil this weekend, obviously somebody likes it very much.”
Doesn’t mean everyone who saw it actually “likes it very much.” I saw it. It was…just okay, I guess. It wasn’t the kind of movie you say to your friends, oh, you gotta see that movie.
Have you seen the movie called He’s Just Not That Into You (2009) to day I have seen it on http://www.80millionmoviesfree.com and oh boy it was out standing don’t know what category we may put it. Lot of people have seen this movie. So many views about the love of teens and the adult issues about marriage