Movie of the Week: What's Your Number

"A woman looks back at the past twenty men she's had relationships with in her life and wonders if one of them might be her one true love." IMDB

What's Your Number is not one of those movies that makes you go, "Holy Shit!  I have to go see that like right fuckin' now!"  It's the kind of movie that you might have seen a preview for once or twice.  It made you think, "Hey, I know those people from stuff..." and then you went about your day.  Some time later you're paging through your premium channel OnDemand menu, probably trying to find something to watch before your food gets cold, when lo and behold, you click on a movie that has people you know from stuff in it!  Finally for lack of anything better, you decide to put it on before you have to make the long trek to the microwave. (true story)

Anna Faris plays Ally (who as far as I can tell is really just Anna Faris).  Ally is a quirky yet awkward kinda girl who has been through a long string of failed relationships, probably due to poor ties with her mother, father, sister, herself, or some weird combination of the above...plus failure. In real life, this person needs counseling, but this is romantic comedy gold!  Shortly after the film begins, she is of course dumped by both her boyfriend and her job.  On the train home from her firing, she sees a magazine article that makes her realize she is kind of a ho-bag.  After confirming her ho-bag status with her friends, she realizes that she has reached her lifetime "sex with different guys" limit.  If she sleeps with one more guy, statistics say that she'll never be happy and die alone and barren or some shit.  So anyway, she concocts this scheme to look up all her old boyfriends to see if any of them have become marriage material since their respective relationships had ended.  She is helped in this endeavor by her across the hall neighbor Chris Evans (or is it Chris Pine?  Which one was Captain America?).  Chris...Captain America is an even bigger ho-bag than she is and helps her out as long as he can hide in her apartment while he waits for whatever chick he banged the night before to leave his place.  Anyway, the story continues from there and quirky yet awkward hilarity ensues.

If you are looking for some shocking twist ending, or explosions, or any sort of depth at all, this is not the movie for you.  Trust me, you know how this movie ends.  I won't tell you, but I'm sure based on what I've already described, you can guess.  We're not breaking any new ground here.  It's a romantic comedy for fuck's sake.  You watch it because it's supposed to be cute and funny and it makes you forget about whatever shit was on your mind for a while.  In my opinion, this movie does just that.  It's light and entertaining, and makes you feel less shitty for like an hour and a half.  Plus, there are a bunch of bit parts/cameos of other people you know from stuff...mostly shows on NBC;  People like Joel McHale, Chris Pratt, Aziz Ansari, Andy Samberg, Martin Freeman, Zachary Quinto, and even Ed Begley Jr.  If you are an expert with the pause button, there's even a bit of boob action from Anna Faris, which has been heretofore unseen! ( Don't judge me.) So yeah, if you need to kill some time, or need to escape into some fluff for a little while, or just need to see some people being silly, check it out.

Also, if you're a chick, you'll surely like it....I'm just kidding...but yeah, probably.