Saturday, February 21, 2009

He is just NOT into you

A light hearted comedy about BGR. Too many artistes in this outing, have to list them out if not it will get confusing.

B Affleck is Neil. A guy who doesn't believe in marriage but is outright nice guy.

J Aniston is Beth. Neil's gf of 7 years who wants to get married but her sister tied the knot before her.

D Barrymore is Mary. A advert design girl who having problem meeting guys in persons and keep getting rejection in the internet/technology space.

S Johsansson is Anna. Simply stunning yoga instructor who wanted to be a singer, she is Mary good friend.

B Cooper is Ben. Branded as the best husband but just simply couldn't resist when she met Mary. Who can resist ? Towards the end, started to know why he is so called best husband.

J Connelly is Janine. She is Beth's good friend who is happily married to Ben. But started to get abit psycho when she found out Ben hasn't really quit smoking.

G Goodwin is Gigi. Beth and Janine's colleague and friend who kept believe the guys who met her is interested in her and will call her again.

K Connolly is Connor. Into real estate and simply confuse about what Anna wants.

J Long is Alex. He runs a restaurant and bar. Connor is his buddy and he seems to be a ultimate relationship expert, getting the girls he wants and dumping them. Till he met Gigi, who initially thought he doesn't like her.

Though some of them knew each other but not everyone is linked together. At about 120 mins, the movie strings along everything quite interestingly as it goes through each person and their encounters.

Gigi kept thinking that the guys she met will call her. She analyze and deduce but got it all wrong till she met Alex who started telling her the ugly truth. Then the problem came, she thought Alex liked her.

Though she mess up initially, he did like her and ended up like her ... left her voicemail and kept thinking she would call him back.

Ben was the best husband because Janine so called force him into marrying her but more surprising they didn't have sex all along. He remains faithful and nice to her till he met Anna at a supermarket, letting her pay first at the cashier. And dramatically, she won some picnic box or ice box because she is the 1000th customer.
His resistance weakens, attends her yoga class and then went swimming. Nothing wrong with swimming but if she takes off all her clothes and jumps in ... then ask you to join her ... then hewww ... how to tahan !

Neil and Beth lives happily together but what Beth really wants is to get married. She even wants it when Gigi tells them her seemingly logical but yet illogical EQ with IQ theory. Beth wants to be the norm rather than the miraculously exception. She gave Neil an ultimatum but Neil just doesn't want to get married. But when Beth father fell ill, she moved back home ... seeing the so called husband of her sisters simply irks her. Neil came by and help out ... at the time when she really needed some. Eventually she told Neil, she is fine to continue this kind of relationship but abit surprising is that Neil did propose to her.

Connor who kept thinking how to convince Anna into a relationship eventually hit it off with Mary, the "internetically" dumped girl. Eventually Ben did not end up with Anna or back to Janine ... The "Ben and Anna in the office make out then hid her in the closet because Janine came by and wanted to make out with him" scene seems abit not match the theme but of course welcome. 7/10

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