I have a few issues with the messages it’s sending. Particularly with the character Gigi. I felt it totally championed her pathetic, desperate, unhealthy, stalking personality as being positive and romantic by “keeping hope” that one day, someone would really love her. A better message is one of self improvement – I thought for sure, we’d see her overcome her desperate, unhealthy ways and see how it attracts the men! We did see a hint of it but not enough to make a difference and that speech she gave which made her unhealthy desperation sound like something to be proud of just made me cringe. Keeping hope and an open heart does not have to mean being a desperate stalker! They made it sound like this was just normal behavior that everyone experiences at some point but it’s definitely NOT. And even if one does experience it, it’s not something to be proud of.

The other message I had a problem with was with Beth’s relationship. I love happy endings and all but this is just sending the message that men who say for 7 years that they never want to get married WILL eventually come around. Sorry ladies but some men will NEVER come around. And believe it or not, there are even some WOMEN today who have no desire to get married.

The only realistic aspect of this was the fact that Ben ended up alone. I cringed at the line Drew Barrymore had about “what if you meet the right person but they’re already married?” So now it’s okay to get involved in an affair? So the fact that Ben did not wind up with his mistress after all was one of the few saving graces of this movie.

I don’t believe that people do and believe whatever they see on TV or in movies but I also don’t believe they have NO influence on our perspections of real life whatsoever. Don’t get me wrong, I love a nice, happy ending but the thing that really bugged me about this movie was that it started out talking about the negative influences we have on our perspections of men from the time we a child… and then goes on to simply contribute to them!

Definitely cute but I kept getting confused with who was going out with who. Makes me very glad I’ve been mostly happily married for 19 years!

“He’s Not That Into You” had some good advice for women, but it should have taken some advice on how to make a decent chick flick. The acting was lackluster; the script was meh, and I barely even faked a laugh. I was pretty disappointed because of the potential that this movie had. They should have just left it as a one-liner in the “Sex and the City” episode that it came from. It was funnier and interesting to hear Berger tell Miranda this, and her sharing the wealth with some reluctant women.

Even though I kind of forwarded through the movie, I did have to say that the advice is sound. I even see myself doing this with my daughter. “Oh honey, that boy is bothering you cause he likes you.” It did make me start thinking about what I say to my daughter and friends when it comes to “guy advice.” However, I probably would have gotten more from just reading the book of the same name from Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, instead of being tortured to watch the entire film.

The character that annoyed me the most was Gigi. She had this desperate personality when it came to men and then wondered why they ran away. It was worst because the one guy who would probably run faster when dealing with her is the one who was the love interest. If they wanted to keep it real and make it as a self-help guide for women to understand men, it should have been more realistic.

I hate when movies have potential to be great, but then end up like this one. Let’s hope that the next chick flick isn’t as bland as this one.

Meh. Comedies just aren’t my cup of tea, I never laugh at the intended scenes, and to add romance to the mix, yuck, way too sappy.

I don’t know what to say about the storyline. According to the film, women are pathetically sentimental and men a bunch of dickheads who never call. It was infuriating how the whole film was full of clichés are truisms: the fact that a film had to be made around them, makes me sad.

But how hot was Justin Long in this film? Before he started acting like a chick, that is. Swooo-oon.