Anna plays ‘Ally’ a 30 something single girl in Boston who works in marketing and likes to make models of people as a hobby. She lives across the hall from womaniser Chris Evans, and there is no way at all that they will get together. Anna’s sister is due to be married and Anna decides to take stock of her life. She has just lost her job, having been sacked by finger smelling Joel McHale who stretches himself in the role of 'douche bag boss' - See ‘Ted’ for the same.
Anna reads a magazine article that says the average woman has slept with 10.5 men, with Anna’s tally amounting to 19. A friend tells her that women who have slept with 20 never get married due to their lack of commitment and because they are big sluts. She decides that her next lover will be her last, but this resolve doesn’t last the night when she wakes up having slept with McHale. He is dumped due to the previously mentioned finger smelling, and Anna decodes that she’ll have to find her life partner amongst the 19 other guys she has slept with.
She enlists the help of Evans who agrees to help her with the tracing of the men in exchange for Anna allowing him to use her apartment to hide from women he is avoiding. Anna then works through the list, with all previous boyfriends coming up short - but what about Evans? He’s nice and the two are getting closer whilst working on the ridiculous project of stalking men.
With Anna’s sister’s wedding coming up will she find her true love?
Tuesday following Monday offers more surprises than this rom-com, but I guess if you have the girls round and a crate of Prosecco on hand you won’t complain. The unlikely nature of the quest did allow for a few funny cameos with Chris Pratt and Tim from 'The Office' both livening up proceedings. You also got Falcon off ‘The Avengers’ who turned out to be gay, just as he was in ‘Black Mirror’ and Ed Begley Jnr as the estranged Dad who showed up in time to hand out some sage advice.
As soon as Evans appeared without his shirt on you knew he was the one and when we saw Anna tart her self up before her latest lover woke up we knew she has self worth issues to be addressed. Her journey, as it was, was peppered with pratfalls and dirty chat which would no doubt entertain the target audience. I thought it was a bit light, but as frothy throwaway fun with plenty of famous faces, it was worth the 2 hour’s of commitment that it demanded.
Faris was pretty much her usual self but looked good in her boy pants and didn’t mind the plenty of jibes that her slutty character rightly received. There wasn’t much in the way of moral judgement here, with the only redemption being to believe in oneself and to get off with the even sluttier neighbour because he believes in you.
Not one you’ll remember tomorrow but decent fun, with pretty people all having a good time.
Best Bit : basketball Play Off ‘W’ Rating 15/23
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