He's Just Not That Into You Critic Reviews
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Based upon 14 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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The result is a bit like a weightless swirl of cotton candy with a mere second of sweetness before it dissolves on your tongue. But then there's nothing wrong with cotton candy, and besides, the filmmakers never promised more. I guess they're just not into that.Read the full review
The movie has a few too many story threads, but it also has some very funny lines and offers sharp-eyed commentary on the state of relationships in the era of instant messages and MySpace.Read the full review
While "Love, Actually" succeeded in providing well-developed characters in (mostly) interesting situations, He's Just Not That Into You is often flat with subplots that feel rushed and/or contrived.Read the full review
The possibilities of the dating game are endless and the potential for pain is great, yet the permutations of the movie's plot are predictable and repetitive.Read the full review
No one has anything to distract them from the minutiae of their love lives, which they proceed to incinerate through overanalysis. It's a moral fable, maybe, if you make half a million a year.Read the full review
All of this results in way too much relationship chatter and not nearly enough comedy, romance or even dysfunctional relationships. We want to laugh -- but at what?Read the full review
Whenever faced with another puerile movie ostensibly about women, I play a little game called What Would Thelma and Louise Do?Read the full review
Never soars, but it never flags. It remains brisk, engaging and pleasant throughout, and face it: If a movie this well made had Spanish or French subtitles, we'd all be talking about it as a searing examination of sexual politics.Read the full review
He's Just Not That Into You turns romantic sanity into something so sanitized that it starts to make delusion look good.Read the full review
Here's a true S&M date movie. Only sadistic men and masochistic women could love it.Read the full review