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Critics Consensus: How to Be Single boasts the rough outline of a feminist rom-com, but too willingly indulges in the genre conventions it wants to subvert.
Critic Consensus: How to Be Single boasts the rough outline of a feminist rom-com, but too willingly indulges in the genre conventions it wants to subvert.
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How to Be Single is over a half hour before it's over.
A horrifically bad romantic comedy that serves as a celebration of entitlement, consumerism, and shallow behavior.
This concept of single still assumes that a woman must have a man, that a girl's only choice is between one boyfriend or 20.
Nothing here will blow you away -- think of this one as taking baby steps away from what's formulaic.
It's chickbait for Valentine's weekend, a fluffball that plays like warmed-over subplots from Sex and the City.
It ... exists in a candy-coated New York where everyone has infinite money, exactly six nonwhite people ever speak and Christmas is always gently covered with pristine, powdery snow.
A film with plenty of flaws but also fleeting moments of insights into relationships that make it more fun than I was expecting.
Still, for a movie that's built largely on rom-com tropes, it's actually surprising how much [the characters] avoid cliché.
Unfortunately, How to be Single is annoyingly jittery and woefully generic. The characterizations all feel synthetic and the contrived dilemmas for how these young women cope with men of uncertainty, reluctance and absurdity fall flat
A likable, though ultimately vanilla romantic comedy.
It feels like a season of a generic soap was shoved together and edited for time.
It doesn't go for as much low-brow humor as you would expect judging from the trailer, but instead likes to use all of its intertwining characters and stories to again, just explore the different lifestyles, benefits, and freedoms of being single.
A kind of clever and poignant film about relationships, How to Be Single is an entertaining rom-com. After Alice breaks up with her long-time boyfriend she befriends a co-worker who helps her navigate the single scene in New York City; meanwhile, her sister faces her own relationship issues when a casual hook up turns into something more. Starring Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Alison Brie, and Leslie Mann, the casting is pretty good (through Wilson is rather annoying; playing her typical load mouth character). And, the film has some interesting things to say about dating, and the societal expectations that come with it. However, it can be a bit clichéd at times and the jokes are hit and miss. How to Be Single has some problems, but there's a sincerity to it and it deliver a lot of laughs.
Super Reviewer
Not perfect, but enjoyable chick flick.
Dakota Johnson's flat everygirl quality is actually quite perfect for Alice, a twenty-something trying to find herself in the aftermath of a codependent relationship. There is the requisite misguided ex-sex and no-strings-attached friend-sex of a standard romcom, but there's also genuine friendship between the age-diverse women and a good balance of raunchy girl-bonding comedy (courtesy of reliable hot mess Rebel Wilson) and complex emotion from the parade of interesting new suitors. The ending also delivers well on the premise of the title - no more, no less.
How to be Single. When I first when into the cinema I was very skeptical, I don't dig chick flicks and I wouldn't classify this as a chick flick although it does capture the female experience of being single. I had mixed feelings about the movie, I felt as if the plot was very unfocused and the character development was awful on some of the characters. You don't actually grow to care to about any of them, I got a 'Crazy Stupid Love" vibe but the characters weren't handled as well. There were too many characters and there wasn't really a lead character to follow. It's just different characters in their own little world. Let's get it this out of the way, I hate Rebel Wilson, I think the whole 'Fat Amy' and making fun of herself is not funny, she plays the same person in every movie, I think she has potential but it is clearly not visible in this movie. She has no development in the movie. Besides those flaws, I actually laughed a few times and I was thoroughly enjoying myself at most times. Leslie Mann and Dakota Johnson were the best in there roles in my opinion. Overall, this movie wasn't a bad time. Go see it if there are no Deadpool showings and if you got the extra money! As a comedy it made me laugh and for that it gets a 6.5/10.
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