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By ELLA TAYLOR
Published on February 03, 2009 at 2:16pm
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Ginnifer Goodwin smiles through He's Just Not That Into You (see review on page 23).
The smirky, overbearing and subliminally hostile romantic primer He's Just Not That Into You, which sold only 2 million copies when it was published in 2004, seizes on some partial truths about the gender wars and blows them up into evolutionary gospel about the crossed wires of male-female dating behavior. The book's title is taken from a scene in Sex and the City. Director Ken Kwapis is charged with hacking a romantic comedy out of that plotless guide for ditzy daters, played quite well here by assorted Jennifers: Aniston, Connelly and (Ginnifer) Goodwin, with Scarlett Johansson thrown in as the home-wrecker. If all you ask for is a few gay jokes, a perky score, pretty shots of Baltimore, and some clever but callow observations of sexual mores in the city, He's Just Not That Into You is an amiable-enough night out. What's depressing about this movie is the low bar that's set for women and the movies that seek to represent them.
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