He’s Just Not That Into You.

Gigi is into Conor, who likes Anna, who likes Ben, who is married to Janine, who happens to be Gigi’s friend. They’re also friends with Beth who wants to marry her long-term partner, Ben’s friend Neil, but he doesn’t believe in marriage. Anna is a friend of Mary who works with, but has never actually seen, Conor.

Relationships can be confusing.

Enter Alex, Conor’s friend, to straighten things out and lay down the law.

“He’s just not that into you.”

… or at least he helps straighten things out until he starts making things more complicated…

Without spoiling the ending, that’s pretty much the whole plot. The film is much more about character development than plot development and as such it does a decent job.

It also plays out as a course in Love 101 and puts forward some interesting theories as to why the fairer sex goes after the bad boy type. Having never been a woman (wearing the underwear doesn’t count), it was difficult for Dave to fully judge the accuracy of such theories. Guys are generally far simpler.

Guy + bad girl = more sex.

Still, everything generally makes sense and it nice every once in a while to watch a movie without massive plot holes in every other scene.

If it sounds like your cup of tea then it almost certainly is.