Knee-jerk review: "He's Just Not That Into You"

1. It's cuter that we expected.
2. It's all very familiar. We've seen most of this before. But that doesn't mean it's a bad movie.
3. Sorry, Justin Long. No way did we believe you for a second as some kind of horndog expert on women. You look like the goofy kid brother of a real horndog expert on women.
4. It was fun to see how these many characters and subplot interlocked and overlapped. That's often the charm of these kinds of ensemble movies.
5. The filmmakers worked a little too hard to try and make Jennifer Connelly's character appear unlikable so that Bradley Cooper would appear somewhat sympathetic in his actions. We didn't fall for it.
6. The Actress Hotness Factor is way off the charts here. Jennifer Connelly, Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett Johansson, and Ginnifer Goodwin.
7. How cool would it be to own and manage a hip bar like The Supper Club?
8. "You're my exception."
9. In typical glossy Hollywood romantic-comedy tradition, the characters all have exotic professions (see #7 above; three of the characters work in sales/marketing for a trendy spice company, for crying out loud) and live in ridiculously sleek and expensive lofts, townhomes, and/or yachts that would cost millions in the real world. This isn't how most American moviegoers live.
10. Drew Barrymore looks weird.
11. You can tell the movie's dated by all of the MySpace mentions and not a peep about Facebook.
12. The guy on the dock, the one giving his "testimonial" to the camera? Dude looks like he's reading cue cards. What the hell?
13. It's way more enjoyable than the vaguely mean-spirited and designer-labeled Sex in the City movie.

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