An all-star flop

Dear women everywhere,
If you want to see women portrayed as used, desperate, worthless and unconfident, please go see “He’s Just Not That Into You,” which delivers all of the lies above – on repeat. 

A group of 20- and 30-somethings all living in Baltimore find their lives intertwined, creating drama-filled interactions of who’s not marrying whom and who’s not sleeping with whom.

Ginnifer Goodwin plays a desperate woman who just wants a man to call her back; Jennifer Aniston’s character will do anything to get Ben Affleck’s character to marry her and Scarlett Johansson plays a bimbo yoga instructor on the prowl.

Not even an all-star cast could save this film from its terrible script.

All of these women are portrayed as helpless, pathetic creatures who can only find satisfaction in the not-so-satisfying relationships they cling to no matter how poorly they are treated.

After all, it doesn’t really matter if he commits, right? As long as you’re still sleeping together?

This theme continues throughout the movie, which contains very little character development but plenty of unrealistic conversation.

It even includes a poor rip-off of the “When Harry Met Sally”-style interviews mixed in between the plots. Unfortunately, that classic romantic comedy used the technique so well, and this one only fails.

OK, so maybe the writers were attempting to send a message that life is messy and relationships are messier – we get that. But it does this poorly and in the process tells women that no man is likely to actually love them and stay faithful to them.

The film portrays the idea that you should just compromise your own ideals of love and marriage and try and get him to sleep with you if it’s the best you can do.

This unpleasant attempt at a realistic romantic comedy does nothing but demean women and over-stereotype them.

Even for loyal chick-flick-goers, the lame happy ending does not even begin to make up for the train wreck before it.