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I don't want to oversell "How to Be Single" — it's a romantic comedy that's only intermittently funny, cobbling together more storylines and characters that it can bother to keep track of. At the same time, however, it's a movie that at least occasionally bothers to zag instead of zig, avoiding the sort of pitfalls we've come to expect in films about unmarried young ladies on the prowl in the big city.
It's based on a novel by Liz Tuccillo, and despite the rom-com clichés that the screenwriters have on their collective résumés — Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein collaborated on "Valentine's Day" and "He's Just Not That Into You," while Dana Fox is responsible for "Couples Retreat" and "What Happens in Vegas" — "How to Be Single" dares to reach the final reel without squeezing its quartet of heroines into gold bands and Vera Wang gowns. Better still, that some of them are still being single when the closing credits roll isn't considered a fate worse than death.
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Alice (Dakota Johnson) spent all four years at Wesleyan in a serious relationship with Josh (Nicolas Braun), but she thinks they need to spend some time as unattached adults before they make a lifelong commitment — what Alice's wild new friend Robin (Rebel Wilson) calls a "sexual rumspringa." Robin, who works at a stuffy law firm with Alice, trains her in such advanced areas of bachelor arts as never paying for drinks and not sending return texts too quickly to last night's booty call.
The guy who helps Alice get her feet wet is the charming Tom (Anders Holm), who's such an expert in remaining non-involved that he's rigged his apartment to offer neither breakfast nor even a glass of water to the hungover young women who wake up in it. He begins to question his playboy philosophy when he finds himself smitten with the marriage-minded Lucy (Alison Brie), who lives upstairs from his bar and comes down just to use the free WiFi.
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Lucy's never integrated particularly well into Alice's storyline, nor is Alice's sister Meg (Leslie Mann), an OB/GYN who suddenly finds herself stricken with baby fever, and just as she's in-vitro'd a child, along comes charming goofus Ken (Jake Lacy) to sweep her off her feet.
There are times when you feel like you're watching an amalgam of rejected ideas from "Sex and the City," "Lipstick Jungle," "Cashmere Mafia" and any number of other shows about sexually-active women living in gorgeous apartments their characters couldn't possibly afford.
Still, the script offers enough laughs to keep the movie from feeling completely disposable — one of Lucy's fellas gives her the brilliant kiss-off, "Let's only see other people" — and it outshines many of its genre peers through little touches like not punishing its female characters for enjoying sex and casting Damon Wayans Jr. (as a romantic interest for Alice) in a role in which his race is thoroughly irrelevant.
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Even with all its flaws, "Single" provides screen time for a charming ensemble of actors. Johnson, who brought flashes of wit to "Fifty Shades of Grey" and who has been a dynamite "Saturday Night Live" host, reasserts herself as an empathetic actress and skilled comic player. Lacy — playing the diametric opposite of his "Obvious Child" character — and Mann have a lovely chemistry, and it's always nice to see the amiable Braun, even though his role here is as straight and dull as the part in his character's hair. Jason Mantzoukas (as a bookstore owner) and Wilson play variations of the roles we're used to seeing from them, but they do them so well it would be churlish to complain about a reprise.
"How to Be Single" is clearly being offered up on a Valentine's Day weekend as bait for groups of unattached female friends looking for a fun night out, and their enjoyment of what's on offer here will probably correlate to how many margaritas they consumed beforehand. But even if they're only occasionally amused, at least they'll be spared the weird toxic anti-woman messages that so many films of this ilk tend to foist upon the unsuspecting. There are, cinematically speaking, worse ways to be.
13 Hollywood Besties Who Starred in Movies Together Before 'Sisters' Tina Fey and Amy Poehler (Photos)
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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
MIramax Films
The two actors became friends when they were children and lived two blocks away from each other in Boston. The duo won a Best Screenplay Oscar in 1988 for their film, "Good Will Hunting," in which they also starred. The best friends also starred in "Dogma" together. -
Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph
Universal Pictures
The two friends and "Saturday Night Live" alums starred in "Bridesmaids" and "Friends with Kids" together. -
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly
Sony
The two comedians really hit it off on the set of "Talladega Nights" in 2006, and have since starred in "Step Brothers" and "Anchorman 2" together. -
Kate Hudson and Liv Tyler
Artisan Entertainment
Hudson and Tyler starred in the 2000 film, "Dr. T and the Woman" together, but the two are actually best pals in real life and went to the same high school. -
Zac Efron and Dave Franco
Universal
Efron and Franco are friends in real life, but also played best friends and frat bros in "Neighbors," and co-starred in "Charlie St. Cloud." -
Ansel Elgort and Nat Wolff
Fox 2000
Real-life buddies Elgort and Wolff starred in "The Fault in Our Stars" together, and Elgort even made a small appearance in Wolff's latest film, "Paper Towns." -
Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens
A24
Hudgens called Gomez one of her best friends in a National Best Friend Day Instagram post this year, and the two starred in "Spring Breakers" together. -
Brad Pitt and George Clooney
Warner Bros.
Pitt and Clooney played partners in crime in "Ocean's Eleven," but are also good pals in real life, riding motorcycles together when Pitt visits Clooney at Lake Como. -
James Franco and Seth Rogen
Sony
Their friendship began when they both were cast in the 1999 series, "Freaks and Geeks." Since then, the bromantic friends have teamed up for "This is the End," "The Interview" and "Pineapple Express." -
Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson
Paramount
Not only have Stiller and Wilson been in over 10 movies together, which include "Night at the Museum," "Meet the Parents" and "Zoolander," but they have also been friends for a long time. -
Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire
Warner Bros.
The two actors have been friends for over 25 years, which started when the pair auditioned for a lot of the same roles. Recently, they starred in "The Great Gatsby" together, but also worked on "Don's Plum" and "This Boy's Life" together. -
Kevin James and Adam Sandler
Universal
Adam Sandler is known to make movies with his best friends, and Kevin James is one of them. They two did "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry," "Grown Ups," and "Pixels" together, to name a few. -
Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz
Columbia
The two became friends during their "Charlie's Angels" days, and have been inseparable ever since.
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