Faris’ Ally Darling has failed in her career and love life. Meanwhile, her womanizing neighbor Colin (Chris Evans), who always opens his door in the buff, offers his services to track down Ally’s missing exes.
To that end, Ally embarks on a search of her past loves. Filling out the film’s running time by delaying the inevitable, Ally thinks she finds her soul mate in the rich, handsome Jake (Dave Annable) just in time for Daisy’s wedding.
To remove all doubt that Ally and Colin belong together, the action shifts to an empty Boston Garden, where they play a game of strip basketball, if only because the script required Chris Evans to remove his shirt for the umpteenth time.
“What’s Your Number?” will raise the unavoidable comparisons with “Bridesmaids,” one of the best female comedies ever.
The latter film would have been a perfect fit for Anna Faris. Instead, this gifted funny girl is given the unenviable task of bringing laughs to “What’s Your Number?”
DVD RELEASE UPDATE
Burr’s Perry Mason specialized in winning seemingly indefensible cases. MTV News recently caught up with the film's screenwriters, Gabrielle Allen and Jennifer Crittenden, to get the inside scoop on why Anna is perfect in this role, what a woman's "number" really means and how they got Chris to take off his clothes so much.
The ladies said that the point of the film is for Anna's character to realize her "number" is just that, a number.
Speaking of superficiality and silliness, this brings me to one of the film's major selling points: Chris Evans is almost naked. Chris was a total happy accident. Critics really, really don’t like the new movie What’s Your Number?, in which a likable weirdo vows to get serious about life and stop sleeping around. I saw the movie last night and kinda liked it, as did my row consisting largely of women. What’s Your Number? I loved Faris in The House Bunny and Smileyface, two movies far superior to What’s Your Number?, and am taken by her way of lingering over seeming throwaway lines. She’s at once the drowsiest and most perceptive person in the room.There’s a scene in What’s Your Number? It’s hard to find a review of the R-rated What’s Your Number? On the film review site Screen It!, Teddy Durgin wrote “I liked this movie the first time…when it was called Bridesmaids.” The trouble with these reviews is that most comedies—starring women, men, robots, dolphins—aren’t as good as Bridesmaids. Imagine his surprise that while he didn’t find women funny in one movie, he did in another. Funny! Just because What’s Your Number? *All that said, What’s Your Number? Now obviously both Anna Faris and Kristen Wiig already looked amazing in the opening shots of their movies. I get it—it’s the movies! Anybody else sheepishly surprised by their enjoyment of What’s Your Number? Does Chris Evans do it for you? Do you think there’s a danger in comparing all comedies written by and starring women to Bridesmaids from here on out? Do scenes of women waking up in full makeup bug?
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