What's Your Number?
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: September 30, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
17
Negative:
11
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsSep 29, 2011
It does induce a few giggles like cheap champagne. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisSep 29, 2011
It's that awkward, tedious monster mash of "chick flick'' and romantic comedy. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldConnie OgleSep 29, 2011
It's full of lively and crude sexual banter, discussions of hookups and sex and Joel McHale's bare butt. Oddly, all this makes the film funnier and more accessible than you might imagine. Read full review
60
Time OutA. A. DowdOct 4, 2011
More of a formulaic Katherine Heigl joint than a femcentric "High Fidelity," this breezy challenge to post-Cosmopolitan gender politics boasts little in the way of surprises but plenty of offbeat charm from its daffy lead. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttSep 28, 2011
Mild vulgarity and discreet nudity garner the sought-after R rating, but this effort feels forced. The real "bad" here is the sheer formulaic nature of everything. There are no surprises but for once you don't much mind. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinSep 28, 2011
There's a smart, funny, observant comedy-drama to be made about the role our romantic pasts play in determining our futures, but director Mark Mylod and screenwriters Jennifer Crittenden and Gabrielle Allan are less interested in making that movie than in cycling Faris through a series of non-starting encounters with one-note-joke ex-flings. Read full review
50
Village VoiceKarina LongworthOct 1, 2011
Even if the speechifying is cringingly trite, and even though it's evident from Colin's first frame onscreen that 21 will be Ally's lucky number, at least her roundelay through exes allows for a few scant moments of inspired lunacy, led by Faris's cartoon-perfect vocal talents. Read full review
50
NPRScott TobiasSep 30, 2011
What's Your Number? trades in the sort of hard-R crudity that's become standard since "The Hangover," but the added explicitness doesn't make it any less artificial a contraption. Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartSep 30, 2011
No matter how charmingly loopy she is, Faris can't transcend the stale gender clichés and rehashed rom-com set pieces. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceySep 29, 2011
Once again Anna Faris manages to be the best thing in another not very good Anna Faris movie. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia PuigSep 29, 2011
The thin premise here seems better suited to a sitcom episode than a full-length feature. That's not surprising given that director Mark Mylod's résumé includes British TV comedies and "Entourage" episodes. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeySep 29, 2011
In some scenes, Faris' sheer velocity gives the movie liftoff. In others, it doesn't hurt that Evans, who looks like the very young Alec Baldwin, and has the sonorous voice of Mark Feuerstein, is the film's sex object. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsSep 29, 2011
Dumb film; smart comedienne. Read full review
50
Boxoffice MagazineJames Rocchi Sep 28, 2011
Some audience members will come out for What's Your Number? for Faris' appeal and likability, but they'll leave disappointed because this film is more interested in showing her physical assets than her comedic ones. Read full review
45
MovielineStephanie ZacharekSep 29, 2011
There's a fine line between a character who has a sense of humor about herself and one who's being repeatedly humiliated for entertainment value, and I'm afraid Ally falls on the wrong side of the line. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierSep 30, 2011
This comedy is empty. Read full review
40
TimeMary PolsSep 29, 2011
What's Your Number? is not much dumber than the average romantic comedy, but there is something sad and infuriating about it. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaSep 29, 2011
The film's lack of common sense reaches out-of-control proportions in the final minutes. Read full review
40
VarietyJustin ChangSep 28, 2011
A draggy, generally laugh-free outing that wastes a perfectly good Anna Faris. Read full review
40
EmpireHelen O'HaraSep 26, 2011
Two charming leads don't make up for a comedy that just doesn't quite deliver the laughs it should. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineMiriam BaleSep 29, 2011
Watching Faris's reactions to the bizarre material that makes up this film is like witnessing someone with a weird sense of humor make a string of jokes that no one's even catching. Read full review
38
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreSep 29, 2011
Anna Faris and Chris Evans don't have enough scenes together, don't have enough funny lines and aren't surrounded by enough funny people to give this "Bridesmaids-lite" a shot. Read full review
30
SlateDana StevensSep 29, 2011
That What's Your Number? is a bad movie is the least of the reasons to walk out of it feeling awful. Competing for the top spot are these two: the criminal misuse of Faris; and the casual endorsement of courtship practices as arcane and sadistic as Chinese foot-binding. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen HoldenSep 29, 2011
If nothing else the ramshackle, scatterbrained rom-com What's Your Number? confirms the arrival, heralded by "Bridesmaids," of a new subgenre, the smutty chick flick, into the Hollywood mainstream. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeySep 29, 2011
A not very good romantic comedy made somewhat bearable by Faris. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallSep 29, 2011
Grating romantic comedy. Read full review
25
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanSep 29, 2011
What's Your Number? ups the vulgarity, ladling it on top of a rom-com base so insipid and predictable that the only thing to keep you awake is counting the number of times that the script drops the word "vagina." Read full review
25
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallSep 29, 2011
I wouldn't even DVR What's Your Number? if under house arrest and starved for entertainment. I've got this movie's number, and it's zero. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesSep 29, 2011
What goes most wrong is the casting. Every facet of Faris' performance feels off. Read full review
16
Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumSep 30, 2011
Under the direction of Entourage's Mark Mylod, the movie not only makes cheap sex jokes but looks skanky, too. Lighting, camerawork, and editing are all a slapdash mess, one that further hinders the actors trying their best to get through this failed hookup of a comedy. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSep 29, 2011
She's hopeless, he's hopeless, and this movie is just ghastly. Read full review
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