He's Just Not That Into You

Reviewed by:
Eric Alt

Directed by: Ken Kwapis

The Skinny: A group of stereotypes find stereotypical love and experience stereotypical loss in a generic city while working generic jobs that they really don't ever have to go to and yet still make enough money live in ridiculous homes and apartments and hang out in cafes all day. You know, like your life.

The Good: It's almost instantly forgettable.

The Bad: The guys from the cast put together this cutesy little video telling you not to worry because they have identified ten "chick flick cliches" that are not in HJNTIY. Well, guess what, fellas? Here are ten that are:

1. Early on, a character describes her better half as "the perfect husband." Ten minutes later, he cheats on her. Surprise!

2. The guy who pretends to be just friends with the needy, neurotic girl while seemingly enjoying his swinging bachelor life has no idea that true love has been staring him in the face…all…this…time.

3. All men are lying douchebags with commitment issues.

4. All women are clingy, emotionally unstable harpies with the hobbies of a serial killer.

5. Watching football and drinking beer automatically makes you a cold-hearted misogynist.

6. Gay guys hold all the secrets of the universe.

7. The "nice" guy and the "nice" girl? Oh, yeah, they get together at the end, even though their getting togethe requires an entire season of Lost's worth of coincidence.

8. All wedding receptions or rehearsal dinners require the presence of one obscure family member who will lay bare a character's secret shame in front of everyone and won't have the slightest inkling that what they're saying would be wildly inappropriate at any time, in any place.

9. Any guy who makes out with his mistress in his office…during the middle of the day…with the discretion of a porn star…will have someone walk in on them.

10. A wizened elder (mom, dad, grandmother) will set a character straight with a single-scene, morale-boosting heart-to-heart.

The Sound of One Hand Kwapis: What did we expect, though, from the guy who brought us License to Wed and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Has Kwapis ever actually met a real human?

Theater, DVD, or TNT in Five Years? If you never see this, you're life won't just be unaffected, it might actually be improved.

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