Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Justin Long and Ginnifer Goodwin have all joined the cast of He's Just Not That Into You, a romantic comedy that already has Drew Barrymore in place as its charmingly naive lead. That's a pretty fantastic cast, whatever your opinions may be on the film after reading the following paragraph.
The film is based on a book of the same name by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tucillo, which seeks to open women's eyes to the fact that men who give them the cold shoulder are not sending mixed messages and are sometimes just – 'oh my god, let's totally write a book called this when we're done doing each other's hair, pillow fighting and watching this episode of Sex And The City' - Not That Into You.
Women don't know this? Really? The only multi-tasking we men are capable of is simultaneously sitting on the toilet and reading; how are we going to have the time, inclination or smarts to conjure mixed messages? If we wish to sleep with you we will make it clear, often in the form of a beery dance involving pointed fingers and bottom lip clenched furiously between teeth or some kind of erudite observation on the expanse of your cleavage. If the reaction is anything else, you can presume that, yes, your bum does look big in that and not in a Beyonce bouncy-bouncy way.
In the film, to be directed by Ken Kwapis (License To Wed, Dunston Checks In - eeshk), Barrymore plays a woman perpetually afraid of dating; Jennifer Connelly is a woman stuck in dull marriage to Cooper; Connolly is a man pining for a (still to be cast) woman, who's having an affair with Cooper; Goodwin is a woman obsessed with Connolly who tries to set up 'accidental' meetings with him, but winds up somehow as a 'My Fair Lady' experiment for his friend, played by Justin Long. The part of the person trying to make sense of that romantic Rubik's Cube will be played by the audience.
N.B. Since we were previously unaware of this book, being a staff largely possessed of external genitalia, we headed over to amazon.com to read up on it. If you wish to fear for the future of our species and sign our petition to have anyone who buys this book sterilised, please read the Customer Reviews section, here.