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He's Just Not that Into it
By
Derek Malcolm
5 Feb 2009
A posse of twentysomethings from Baltimore navigate their way through the dating pool towards the murky waters of married life in Ken Kwapis’s romantic comedy. Inspired by a line of dialogue from Sex and the City, and penned by the same writers, it stars Ginnifer Goodwin as the girl who simply cannot understand why the man she wants won’t call her. The obvious reason — that she’s an irritating little minx — escapes her utterly.
This is only the start of a tepid movie in which A is going out with B but is really into C, C is dating D and D is married to E, etc. Various chapter headings point up the peril of male-female relationships (the film is based on a bestselling dating manual). Since Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly and Scarlett Johansson are in the cast, to say nothing of Kris Kristofferson bringing up the rear, you presume it will do OK at the box office.
Its problem is that no one in it is remotely interesting and the ensemble playing only just passes muster considering the better efforts of the cast in other movies. Scarlett Johansson in particular had better stick with Woody Allen.
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The whole resembles a soufflé which simply refuses to rise. Maybe I was just not that into it.
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Reader views (2)
I totally disagree with the previous comment. I did not regret one minute of watching this film. I did not have high expectations and was pleasantly surprised to find the film more funny than I thought it would be. Done in a sort of successive sketches that all link into a thin storyline, the many well known actors and actresses make of a light film, agreed, a very amusing, mindless and thoroughly entertaining treat to enjoy.
No oscars maybe but lots of fun.
- Josephine Thalbach, London, 23/02/2009 11:37
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This film is pointless, it has a basic story line and me and my friend guessed the ending before it happened, we were right. In the advert they show all the good stuff and theres nothing more. Its boring and half way through me and my friend were deciding whether we should walk out and go to the arcade instead. We didnt and on the way out everyone else was saying they shouldve watched something else. Its rubbish in my point of view.
- Beth, England, 20/02/2009 16:09
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