The perfect ex
| Movie | |
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| German title | The perfect ex |
| Original title | What's your number? |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Mark Mylod |
| script |
Jennifer Crittenden Gabrielle Allan |
| production |
Beau Flynn Tripp Vinson |
| music | Aaron Zigman |
| camera | J. Michael Muro |
| cut | Julie Monroe |
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The Perfect Ex is an American comedy from 2011. It is the literary film adaptation of the novel Twenty Men Are Enough by Karyn Bosnak .
action
Ally Darling doesn't have it easy. Her relationship with Rick has come to an end, as has her job in marketing at Linskey Solutions . While her sister Daisy Eddy gets married, she also has to read that the average American woman only has 10.5 men in her life. That alone wouldn't be a bad thing if it weren't for the study that 96% of all women who had more than 20 sexual partners would never get married. Since she already had 19 men, she is very close, which is why she does everything to ensure that the next one has to be the right one. Unfortunately, she's got into alcohol, which is why she sleeps drunk with her ex-boss Roger. Completely depressed that it was the wrong person and that her life is now over, she gives in to the feast. But by chance she meets her ex-boyfriend Donald. He was once so overweight and unsightly that she still calls him fat Donald . But Donald has made himself up, is slim and is about to marry Cara. And because her ex-boyfriend is so damn good-looking, she's hoping that one of her other ex-boyfriends may still be single too, so Ally can get together with one of them. So she asks her neighbor from 6a, Colin, the son of a police officer, to help her find her ex-boyfriends.
The first hit is Dave Hansen, a wizard and bartender she is absolutely not enthusiastic about. After the British Simon Forester, who is divorced in Beacon Hill , the puppeteer Jerry, to whom she once lost her innocence, and also the gynecologist Dr. Barrett Ingold, who only recognizes that she is not suitable for her from her vagina, flies her to Washington, DC , where she meets Tom Piper, a senator's advisor . He is absolutely enthusiastic about her, gives her a room in a noble hotel and gets her a fine dress to then take it out at the gala dinner. Everything could be so perfect if Tom weren't gay, who sees Ally as the ideal fake wife to fulfill his career goals of becoming the next black president of the United States .
After all the failures, Ally is still hoping for her dream prince, the wealthy Jake Adams, who is in Africa to run his charity. Colin rebuilds her by kidnapping her to TD Garden , home of the Boston Celtics , where he plays strip basketball with her. Then they head to Boston Harbor , where they just jump into the freezing water before realizing that it wasn't a good idea. During the subsequent change of clothes in Ally's apartment, the two of them have a night of love, but no sex is involved. While Colin believes he is in a relationship with Ally, Ally breaks off contact with him because he did not give her the phone number for Jake Adams. Ally meets with Jake shortly afterwards and is so excited about him that she invites him to her sister's wedding, where everyone else is excited too. But Ally realizes that Jake is perfect, but not for her, because she lied to herself the whole time in order to do justice to her dream prince. Instead, she should have stayed with Colin, who accepted her for who she is. So she seeks him out, confesses her love to him and finally gets together with him.
criticism
“Predictable, narrow-minded relationship comedy without situation comedy and dialogue joke. On the word level, the film plays with obscurity, on the picture level it remains all the more upright. "
“While you still wonder why Ally doesn't just grab your neighbor and stop wasting her time (and that of the viewer), you get more and more angry. 'The perfect ex' is so predictable, stuffy and hostile to lust that you want to pull your hair out. Director Mark Mylod never succeeds in creating amusing situational comedy or entertaining with dialogue wit. "
“But a film like“ Brautalarm ”, which in 2011 surprisingly gave the genre of female comedy a new vitality, cannot hold a candle to“ The Perfect Ex ”. Director Mylod's comedy lacks esprit and courage, the story is too predictable. And yet there are some really funny and occasionally even more serious moments, into which one can finally read a little social criticism: For example, in a society that only too likes to rely on formulas and numbers in matters of love. "
publication
After its theatrical release on September 30, 2011, the film grossed a little over $ 30 million worldwide on an estimated budget of $ 20 million. In Germany, the film opened in cinemas on March 29, 2012.
Web links
- What's Your Number in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- What's Your Number at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Official American website (English)
- Official German website
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Perfect Ex in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed April 10, 2012
- ↑ "The Perfect Ex": Where's That Guy For Life? on Abendblatt.de on March 29, 2012, accessed on April 9, 2012
- ↑ Anna Faris on a man hunt: “The perfect ex” ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on stern.de on March 26, 2012, accessed on April 9, 2012
- ↑ What's Your Number? (2011) at boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed April 10, 2012
