What's Your Number?

What’s Your Number? is one of those films where you already know exactly what’s going to happen throughout the film, and its conclusion is already known to its audience by the phrase “romcom”. It’s also one of those films that’ll have the male population running a mile. However, any blokes that do get dragged along will still be entertained as, despite there being nothing original here, there are still enough gags to go round and a winning performance from Anna Faris to enjoy. In the film Faris plays Ally, a woman who after reading an article about sexual partners decides not to sleep with anyone else unless they are the “one”. In addition, she attempts to track down her ex-notches on the bedposts in order to see how they are now and if any of them could have been said love of her life. Helping her out is Colin (Chris Evans) who, get this, is a musician in a struggling band but just also conveniently happens to be an expert in tracking people down. Only in the movies, folks. As is the wont of the modern romcom this has a few crude moments to have you squirming, but it isn’t overloaded with them and the film aims more for laughs based on verbals rather than actions. Faris is a weird actress to watch and how you feel about this film may actually depend on whether you find her cute as a button or annoying as hell. There isn’t much middle ground, really. Personally, I doff my hat to her in this as she always appears game for anything and provides plenty of charm that is missing from similar by the numbers productions. There are negatives of course, with the worse being Ally’s discussions with her girlfriends and their toe-curlingly unnatural dialogue bringing to mind the worse of Sex and The City. Evans doesn’t do much and is a bit of a personality vacuum throughout, though the target audience won’t be disappointed to see him wandering about the film in various states of undress. This is director Mark Mylod’s first feature and with a heavy background in TV he knows enough to move the story along as quick as possible, though this is probably a by-product of not having much to work with script wise. All in all, not as bad as you’d think, but certainly nothing new.

The OC Film Sting Final Verdict

Faris is the best thing here and to be fair to all involved this doesn’t claim to be anymore then it sets out to be. Rating: 6/10.