So Tyne and I watched What’s Your Number? at Nex cinema last night. It was your typical rom com, that is, romantic and funny (duh?) and we kept on squealing at each other each time the camera panned across the leading man Chris Evans, which was for like 75% of the movie. How mature of us, huh? Haha.
The story: Ally reads a magazine article titled “What’s Your Number?” which says that the number of guys a girl has slept with says something about her. If she has slept with more than 20, then she would never get married.
Ally compiles her list and finds out to her shock that she has had 19. At her sister’s hen party she vows that her next one would be her husband, but then she gets drunk and ends up sleeping with the boss who had just recently fired her. So she can’t sleep with anyone else, ever, because her number has raised to 20.
But then she runs into one of her exes and finds that Disgusting Donald is no longer disgusting at all. A comment from her sister makes her realize that some of her exes may have changed for the better, just like Donald, so she has a brilliant idea – if she could end up with one of those exes, she won’t need to raise her number anymore.
So she excitedly culls a search for them but is not that good at it. Then she remembers that her neighbor Colin is good at digging up dirt and enlists his help. He says no at first, but when she offers to help him hide from his one-night-stands in exchange for his help, he agrees.
He does a good job digging up some of her exes and even accompanies her to go to them, but it all turns out to be a disaster. After one night when one of her exes asks her to marry him, but then tells her that she will only be his beard because he is actually gay, Collin takes her to play strip basketball which somehow ends up with them skinning dipping in the ocean.
Ally ends up wearing Collin’s shirt because they had left her too tight dress in the basketball court, and she says she would like to keep it. Collin says no, that he can’t afford to lose another shirt because too many girls had run off with his shirts.
Ally replies that those girls had fully intended to return them but then he had never called them back.
And he says well then, if that was the case, then he plans to stop going on one-night-stands starting now, and as he slowly unbuttons the shirt, they end up kissing. She says they can’t sleep together, though, because of her number, so they just kiss and literally sleep next to each other.
But then the next day they have a fight when she finds out that he had deliberately not given her the number of her #1 ex and he says he did that because he thought it wasn’t necessary after last night. But she says that “I’m not supposed to end up with you. You’re the kind of guy that you go out with before the guy you end up with, and the thing is, I’ve already dated twenty of you.” He leaves.
She contacts her #1 ex and he turns out to be perfect. Her mom is thrilled for her, and she brings him as her date to her sister’s wedding. But during a slow dance number, when she tells him she has slept with 20 men, he thinks she’s joking and then asks her to travel with him for 6 months and then makes a disparaging comment about her joblessness and her passion for making sculptures.
Then she realizes that he wouldn’t be able to accept her for who she was, and the realization only solidifies when she gets up to make a toast for the bride and groom and she says that the most wonderful thing about her sister being in love with her husband was that she was completely herself around him. “Being in love means being yourself.”
So she breaks up with her boyfriend in the middle of reception, because of course this is a movie and that’s what you do in movies, you don’t wait for more pleasant circumstances. She tells him, “You’re perfect, but you’re not perfect for me.”
And also because this is a movie, she decides that she had to gatecrash all the weddings in search of Colin instead of just waiting for him in his apartment. She actually makes a comment about this while she is straddling a fence so she can get inside the wedding where he is performing as a singer.
And of course, she couldn’t wait for him to finish his song but gets up onstage and cuts him off and leads him offstage so she could give him her speech.
In the end, she tells him, “I think I love you, 21.” He smiles and replies, “I love you too, 300-” and she cuts him off before he could tell her her number. Hahaha.
The last scene is of them kissing on her bed when a message plays on her answering machine. One of her exes calls back and says that they didn’t actually sleep together, and she is elated, jumping up and down on the bed as she tells Colin, “You’re 20! You’re 20!”
And Tyne and I realized that we don’t need perfect men, we just need men who are perfect for us.
And later on, inside China One, a bar in Clarke Quay, we clinked our glasses of Heineken and toasted, “To finding 21!”
21 as in the last guy. Doesn’t mean we need to sleep with 20 guys before finding him, mind. 😅
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