He's Just Not That Into You

Genre: Comedy & Romance
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Connelly, Ben Affleck, Bradely Cooper, Drew Barrymore,
Director: Ken Kwapis

When you're seeing a movie with this kind of title on Valentine's Day, be sure to watch it with someone close to you, as you may get a little confused on relationships, and wonder if you'll ever get into a healthy, normal one...

Not that long ago, we had movies like “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist” and “Sex and the City” which are of the same genre, but at opposite poles. While the first is a teen flick of messed-up kids got loose in the city, the second is a mature flick of middle-aged women got loose in the same city, but on different streets (like Brooklyn versus Upper East side). Well, imagine the in-between of these two movies, and there you'll have “He's not that into you”. You'll get the funny moments, the comfy city pattern (Baltimore, bleah), and a cohort of stars taking on the screen one by one as they represent interconnected characters searching for love, or just some reassurance and company.

Stars of the movie count Ben Affleck (Good Will Hunting) as Neil, a boy nobody seems to wanna kiss. He's the steady boyfriend of Beth, and thinks has a perfect on-going relationship with her, while Beth, interpreted by Jennifer Aniston (Along Came Polly), thinks about dumping the poor sob. Drew Barrimore (Music & Lyrics) is Mary, a lucky gal in a sea of supportive attractive men among which she just needs to find a straight one. Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind) is Janine, a woman who can't trust her husband Ben (Bradley Cooper from Yes Man), who can't trust himself around his sexy vicious neighbor Anna, the one and only Scarlet Johansson (The Other Boleyn Girl), who, might I say, numbs the viewer out with her not that brilliant performance. But she's pretty so I guess one can't really pin it to her.

The movie stars a bunch of other impressive actors as well, but the team behind the movie is what gives the brilliance. We have production designer Gae Buckley (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2), composer Cliff Eidelman (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants), Grammy Award-winning music supervisor Danny Bramson, and director of photography John Bailey (Must Love Dogs).

Directed by Ken Kwapis (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants), the movie is based on a bestseller book by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo. So, while you may think this movie goes on and on about trivial love things (it does take more than 2 hours, but hey, with so many stars, it had to be lenghty to make screen "room" for all of them), it nevertheless points out some features of the underlying nature of human relationships. Like, you know...some people actually love for free.

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