DVD of the week: How to be single
I rate this film 6½/10. It was funny throughout but also emotional. It has a motivational message for all the single ladies out there.
This hilarious romantic comedy focuses on the lives of different single people and how they handle the single life.
Young Alice (Dakota Johnson) breaks up with her long-term boyfriend and decides to take time alone to “find herself” so she moves to New York where she befriends her new, wild colleague Robin (Rebel Wilson). Robin is happily single and in the prime of her life – spending each night at a different nightclub and with a different man.
Alice’s sister Meg (Leslie Mann) is a doctor who delivered hundreds of babies, and now want her own – but she doesn’t want the man that comes with it because she enjoys being independent.
Alice meets a handsome bartender, Tom (Anders Holm) that is set in his ways as a single ladykiller – but later meets a new regular at his bar, Lucy (Alison Brie) who is looking for the perfect man using various dating sites.
All of these single people somehow came across each other’s paths for a reason, and each of them learned something out of being single.
There are different types of single people. There are those who keep looking for the right Mr perfect, but never find him, those that are afraid to commit because they are afraid that they might lose their independence, those that thrive at being single and those that wish they weren’t… whichever type, this movie has an answer for each of them.
*How To Be Single is rated 16 and has scenes of sex and nudity.*
I rate this film 6½/10. It was funny throughout but also emotional. It has a motivational message for all the single ladies out there.
How To Be Single is available for rent at DVD4home on the corner of Retief and Govan Mbeki streets. Tel: 018 293 3895.
