What´s Your Number?

If you see Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson or...Drew Barrymore on a poster, you know there is a risk that it´s a romantic comedy. Some actresses seems to stuck into a certain genre, mostly because it sells tickets. When it comes to Anna Faris, she is not the typical romantic comedy girl, wich is great. She have tried to be flexible, try different kind of characters. One of her best movies so far is The House Bunny, a Playboy girl moves into college to help a group nerd girls be sexy. It had a great combination of a college comedy with funny dialogue. Let´s not forget her performance in Observe And Report, as a shopping mall diva. On paper, What´s Your Number? looks like another romance production, made to please all you girls who dream of the perfect man ( wich i already know i am ). So is this what we call in Sweden :- Kalkon rulle, or is this actually funny?


Ally Darling ( Anna Faris ) get fired from her job. On her way home, she buys a magazine, with an article named What´s Your Number? The article asks the reader to calculate how many people you had sex with. As Ally starts to calculate, she finds out she had sex with 20 men. Wich is more than she expected. She decides to track down all of her ex boyfriends, to see wich one has grown up, and hopefully find someone to marry. Her neighbour Colin Shea ( Chris Evans ) is a ladies man, always with a new woman. He decide to help her track out her ex boyfriends. Along the way, things are not going how Ally have expected.

The story itself is pretty dumb. Why would you look for all your ex boyfriends, and not just move on with your life? In this case i know why, she doesnt want to sleep with guy number 21. But anyway, What´s Your Number? is not as bad as i thought it would be, but that is because of Anna Faris comic timing. She makes this romance story fun at some moments. The biggest problem is it´s hard to be interested in her quest. They could have made her ex boyfriends more special, and it might have worked better. Now, were just left with a pretty thin comedy, that should have a completely different storyline. Anna Faris is a comic talent, she can deliver a good performance with the right material. But here she is the only reason you watch through the whole movie. My advice, if you want a romantic comedy that´s fun, rent I Love You, Phillip Morris, gay men know how to make romance movies more entertaining.

Rating: DD