“He recognized my vagina.” Said Ally Darling (Anna Faris), a loved-starved and desperate single gal, describing another failed date through her backwards quest in finding true love. All because “Marie Claire” magazine conducted a “study” revealing “96% of women with twenty or more lovers…can’t find a husband.” As vulnerable as she is impressionable Ally then creates, yet quickly breaks, her celibacy the very next day leaving only to search through past lovers of magicians, gynecologists, and puppeteers galore.
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Toasting to “better decision making” in the beginning of her quest, the actions she chooses thereafter secede her outlook. “What’s Your Number” exhaustively reinforces Ally’s need to find the “one” in order to be happy. Even the trek up the stairs to her apartment after every bad date, maybe used for artistic reasons, seem to represent her long journey only to be rescued by her devilishly handsome neighbor Colin. Her preoccupation with finding a soul mate trumps and disregards her own self, depicting her character to be appear more naïve than wanted or expected.
With it’s comparison to Kristen Wiig’s 2011 hit “Bridesmaids”, besides the eerily opening shots of each movie being similar (both Wiig and Faris’s characters put on make-up before their emotionally detached FTF’s wake up), “What’s Your Number” doesn’t quite add up to it’s competition. Though Faris’s fake accents and comedic timing’s are hilarious and endearing, when needed to produce a serious and angry persona, it’s a bit awkward with her whispy voice and haunting flashbacks of her in “Scary Movie” I, II, III and IV.
Yet despite the raunchy overworked humor towards male and female genitalia and glimpses of one too many butt cracks, “What’s Your Number” has some quirky tales that will get your girlfriends giggling to the true “numbers” once whispered secretively in the ladies bathroom.
2/4 stars
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