He's Just Not That Into You
Starring: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin ConnollyDirector: Ken Kwapis
Studio: New Line Home Video
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Format: Color, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1
Running Time: 129 minutes
DVD Release: June 2nd 2009
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DVD Review
The baltimore-set movie of interconnecting story arcs deals with the challenges of reading or misreading human behavior. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 06/02/2009 Starring: Drew Barrymore Ben Affleck Run time: 129 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Ken Kwapis
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Disgusting & Pathetic Waste of Film (not even worthy of a star) - Rating: 1/5
I sat there with my wife trying to find some redeeming value to this flick, but there was none. If you want agendas, this one is full of em'. I am embarassed to have wasted $3.99 on this moral-less movie. So much for a good romantic comedy. Don't be fooled by the preview, there is nothing but all kinds of rhetoric in this pathetic film. Disgusted.
Trust Me, You're Just Not Into This - Rating: 1/5
Drivel. Absolute drivel. Boring as heck. A waste of a couple hours.
These words describe this movie to a "t." I found all of the actors completely wooden and amateurish. None of the "love" stories resonated with me at all. Oh, yes, let's watch a man cheat on his wife. Oh, please, let's see a woman sacrifice her desire to be married after seven years with the same man because he finds marriage antiquated. Oh, my, how lovely to see some poor sap so enthralled by the boobs of a blonde that he can't move on.
I could go on from here, but why? It's pointless, just like this movie was.
Zen for Beginners - Rating: 3/5
Ginnifer Goodwin always seems to play the girl who can't get (or keep) a man. Witness her turns in Mona Lisa Smile and as the jilted first Mrs. Cash in Walk the Line. Where does this typecasting come from? Because Ms. Goodwin is absolutely adorable. She does it again here, as the adorably named and (increasingly) desperate Baltimore single Gigi who wonders why promising first dates and bar conversations never lead anywhere. Answer: She's obsessing WAY too much. Gigi works in the same office with Beth (Jennifer Aniston), whose live-in boyfriend (Ben Affleck) is marriage-phobic; and Jeanine (Jennifer Connelly) an uptight control freak married to a guy (Bradley Cooper) who's had ample time to regret being pushed into marriage with her. So much so that his eye wanders to buxom (and easy) yoga instructor Anna (Scarlett Johansson) who hits on him in the supermarket. Memo to Ms. Johansson: We get it. You are a sexpot. You are also in danger of becoming a parody of yourself. Oh, wait--that's already happened. Anna is friends-with-benefits with Conor (Kevin Connelly) who had one date with Gigi and is not that into her. Rounding out the cast is ad salesgirl Mary (Drew Barrymore) and wise bartender Alex (Justin Long), who counsels Gigi to behave more like a guy and not take it all so personally. Apart from observing that Long is nowhere near as appealing here as he is as Mac in the Mac/PC commercials, he and Barrymore grated on my nerves the least. Then, Barrymore is barely in the movie. I think I counted three scenes that made it into the film. The rest is all very angsty, Thirtysomethingesque, except that all of these people are too self-involved to have children. One wonders how a nonfiction self-help book evolved into a 'romantic comedy' (in quotes, because there's not much that's either romantic or funny here) with all these different storylines. A bit more entertaining than I was expecting it to be, which is faint praise, maybe, but that's all I got. Women can take away the one salient lesson they need to learn, though: When he's just not that into you, the signs are clear. As crystal.
Pathetic - Rating: 1/5
With all this talent one would expect something great. After seeing many negative reviews, I hoped for at least something good, but got something dreadful. I kept trying to find something to like about this movie as I normally love Jen Anniston, but even she could'nt save this clunker. Her character, along with Affleck's, were the best out of the bunch. Theirs was the most genuine and realistic out of all the "love" situations. I found Goodwin's character absolutely obnoxious. Who in real life would be that insecure and needy? Any man in his right mind would run from that. Especially a womanizer who had his share of beautiful women and then he unknowingly falls for her afer she attacks him on the sofa? Gag me. As for the love triangle between Scarlett's character and two men, how cliche. Of course the femme fatalle would be played by a busty blonde. Then there is Connelly's portrayal of a pathetic wife who only snared her husband by giving him an ultimatum and then refusing to sleep with him. Upon finding out about is infidelity she accepts it quite calmly until she further discovers he is sneaking cigarettes. Sneaking sex is acceptable, but he could get lung cancer!! Then there is Drew Barrymore's air-headed character of a modern day woman who can't figure out how to communicate with all the different technologies in today's world. I had to roll my eyes throughout much of this film as these women were a bunch of one dimensional, pathetic whiners made to look weak, needy and less than. Real women are not like this, at least the ones I know. Thank goodness. What surprises me most is that all these A-list actors signed up for this vapid drivel in the first place. Musta have been a heck of a paycheck. I guess the moral of this film is that as a society we, as women, are programmed to believe that a man likes us if he treats us badly. Very highschool concept, most of us grow out of that. This film not recommended for intelligent women.
tedious, predictable, too long - Rating: 1/5
Half way through I really wished it was over already. Misanthropic, misogynistic and generally dull, dull, dull.
