Movie Reviews: "What's Your Number?"

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Movie Reviews: "What's Your Number?"


Producers of What’s Your Number? have dialed the wrong one with this latest R-rated raunch-com aimed at women and starring Anna Faris and Chris Evans, most critics argue.

They suggest that except for good looks the two leading characters are not individuals whom you would want to spend 106 minutes with — not in real life, and certainly not when you have to fork over the price of a movie ticket.





Mick Lasalle sums up his review in the San Francisco Chronicle with:

“She’s hopeless, he’s hopeless and this movie is just ghastly.”





Claudia Puig in USA Today suggests that the two actors playing them deserve better.

“Faris and co-star Chris Evans have an easy charm and sharp comic timing, but this by-the-numbers romantic comedy isn’t worthy of their talents.”





Echoes Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe:

“These two need another, braver movie together.”





Betsy Sharkey suggests in the Los Angeles Times.

“It was supposed to be one of those films that lets women break through the R-rated comedy glass ceiling, but Bridesmaids beat it to the punch this summer, and with much better punch lines.”





The two movies, notes Stephen Holden in the New York Times, confirm the arrival “of a new subgenre the smutty chick flick, into the Hollywood mainstream.”

However, he concludes, “Once What’s Your Number? subsides into squishy wedding pornography, it is all but unendurable.”

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