What's Your Number? 2011

Critics score:
23 / 100

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Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Anna Faris and Chris Evans don't have enough scenes together, don't have enough funny lines and aren't surrounded by enough funny people to give this "Bridesmaids-lite" a shot. Read more

David Germain, Associated Press: "What's Your Number?" sticks to the low common denominators of most Hollywood romances, and it ends up a commonplace one for doing so. Read more

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: ...the film's tedium is such that by the time the final credits rolled, I felt much sorrier for myself than I did for [Faris]. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: "What's Your Number?" doesn't know when to quit. Once it subsides into squishy wedding pornography, it is all but unendurable. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Ranks higher in crudity than in the number of laughs generated. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: "What's Your Number?" suffers from an elaborate plot that traps the actors in scenarios that feel like a screenwriter's (or, in this case, a novelist's) invention. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: It turns out What's Your Number? isn't any smarter or savvier about sex and its collateral damage than the idiotic fake women's-magazine study that provides its premise. Read more

Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: Someday Anna Faris will find a movie vehicle that takes full advantage of her quirky comic rhythms and goofball timing, but it sure isn't "What's Your Number?" Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: It's that awkward, tedious monster mash of "chick flick'' and romantic comedy - a flatulent issue of Glamour in a Hildy Johnson hat. Read more

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Even dumber than this premise is the notion that she can resist Evans, whose charms are particularly manifest thanks to a screenplay that requires him to drop trou early and often. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Anna Faris survives "What's Your Number?" with eccentric comic charm intact. Dumb film; smart comedienne. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: This desperately seeking-laughs comedy stars Anna Faris, a comedian with a lot of quirk appeal, though little of it is on display. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: With her sweet ditz openness, honk of a voice, blonde pixie looks and absolutely fearless comic flair, Anna Faris should be a superstar. But no one's found the right bottle for her elixir. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Lighting, camerawork, and editing are all a slapdash mess, one that further hinders the actors trying their best to get through this failed hookup of a comedy. Read more

Laremy Legel, Film.com: You can tell Faris craves laughs, and so it's incredibly easy to root for her. Read more

Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: There are no surprises but for once you don't much mind. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: A not very good romantic comedy made somewhat bearable by Faris. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: What's Your Number? manages to skate the line between romantic and risque, which is far more than most movies of its ilk can accomplish. Read more

Ella Taylor, NPR: There's very little personal dirt in Sarah Palin: You Betcha! that wouldn't be upstaged by Joe McGinniss' recent Palin tell-all. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: This comedy is empty. Read more

Sara Stewart, New York Post: What's the point of all this? Read more

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Faris is endearing even at those times when this frantic I've-slept-with- 19-guys comedy is barely endurable. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: He is borderline evil, and she is a completely helpless, flailing fool, and there's no reason to think they would stay together for a month. Read more

Dana Stevens, Slate: For comedy connoisseurs it isn't news that Anna Faris is a largely untapped treasure. The melancholy question that lingers on the way out of the vulgar yet retrograde What's Your Number? is: Whither Anna? Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: There's just zilch here to get excited about. It does nothing you haven't seen before. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: This movie isn't as daring as it pretends to be, but with two likable stars and a quotient of absurdity, "What's Your Number?" gets a passing grade. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Once again Anna Faris manages to be the best thing in another not very good Anna Faris movie. Read more

Jordan Riefe, TheWrap: Read more

Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: What's Your Number? is not much dumber than the average romantic comedy, but there is something sad and infuriating about it - like running into a high school friend who seemed destined for greatness and walking away realizing she just picked your pocket. Read more

Anna Smith, Time Out: A throwaway giggle rather than a life-affirming mirror for that swelling box-office target: the single woman. Read more

Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: For all its edge, What's Your Number? is rooted in stale convention, boxed in by unfair societal strictures and holds to the belief that good girls still need the affirmation of a man and marriage to be complete. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: A draggy, generally laugh-free outing that wastes a perfectly good Anna Faris. Read more

Karina Longworth, Village Voice: What's Your Number unavoidably plays like a mash-up of the recent romantic comedies that it should have beat to market. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: It's a cynical exercise in marketing, masquerading as a maverick. Read more