Review: What's Your Number?

STARRING: Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Martin Freeman, Aziz Ansari, Zachary Quinto, Mike Vogel, Chris Pratt, Anthony Mackie DIRECTOR: Mark Mylod CERTIFICATE: 15 RUNNING TIME: 106 mins REVIEWER'S RATING: ?? SHOWING: Cineworld, Showcase & VUE BASED on the novel 20 Times A Lady by Karyn Bosnak, What's Your Number? centres on a 20-something career girl who imposes a strict limit on the number of men she is allowed to sleep with before she finds her Prince Charming.

When she hits that limit - 20 lovers - the only choice for the beleaguered heroine is to revisit her old flames, hoping that she missed a diamond in the rough the first time around.

Gabrielle Allan and Jennifer Crittenden's script clings to this flimsy dramatic conceit like a first-time swimmer with a flotation device.

Alas, Mark Mylod's flat-footed and hare-brained romantic comedy capsizes within the first 10 minutes and it feels considerably longer than 106 minutes before the film drowns with a whimper.

Anna Faris is a gifted comic actress but she can't perform miracles and wrings laughs out of thin air, and sadly, Mylod's flaccid film gives her nothing to work with.

Ally Darling (Anna Faris) reads a newspaper article, which suggests the average person has 10.5 partners in their lifetime and single women are doomed to spinsterhood if they reach 20 sexual partners without hearing a peal of wedding bells.

Shocked to discover that a recent drunken fumble with her boss takes the notches on her bedpost to 20, Ally enlists the help of bed-hopping next-door neighbour Colin (Chris Evans) to re-evaluate the suitability of her old flames as partners.

Predictably, the man of Ally's dreams might be someone closer to home.

On-screen sexual chemistry between Faris and Evans is inert, leaving us to wonder if Ally might be destined for the emotional scrapheap on her lonesome after all.

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ON THE SHELF? Ally Darling (Anna Faris) in What's Your Number?

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Title Annotation:	Features
Publication:	Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
Date:	Sep 30, 2011
Words:	318
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