How To Be Single | Film review - Big Apple Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

By Jason Best
( What's on TV )
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How to be Single Dakota Johnson Rebel Wilson
How to be Single starring Dakota Johnson and Rebel Wilson (Image credit: Barry Wetcher)

How To Be Single - Dakota Johnson finds out from Rebel Wilson, Leslie Mann and Alison Brie whether New York girls just wanna have fun in this breezy rom-com.

Having just broken up with her college boyfriend, Dakota Johnson’s newbie New Yorker Alice learns the rules of the city’s dating game from her hard-partying work colleague Robin, a typically rowdy, rude and often very funny Rebel Wilson. The other strands in breezy chick flick How To Be Single – based on the book by Liz Tucillo, a writer for Sex and the City – mostly rely on rom-com formula, with subplots involving Alison Brie’s marriage-obsessed Lucy, Anders Holm’s womanising barman Tom and Alice’s highly strung obstetrician sister, played by a comically nervy Leslie Mann. Yet even if the movie doesn’t break fresh ground, its stars are consistently engaging.

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Certificate 15. Runtime 110 mins. Director Christian Ditter

How To Be Single is available on Blu-ray, DVD & Digital Download, courtesy of Warner Brothers Home Entertainment.

Blu-ray Extras

  • The Pros and Cons of How To Be Single
  • Rebel Rabble: A Look at Rebel Wilson
  • The Best Idea Wins! The Humour of How To Be Single
  • Deleted Scenes (also available on DVD)
  • Gag Reel
  • Rebel Wilson Outtakes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrDI4-BSovs

Jason Best
Jason Best

A film critic for over 25 years, Jason admits the job can occasionally be glamorous – sitting on a film festival jury in Portugal; hanging out with Baz Luhrmann at the Chateau Marmont; chatting with Sigourney Weaver about The Archers – but he mostly spends his time in darkened rooms watching films. He’s also written theatre and opera reviews, two guide books on Rome, and competed in a race for Yachting World, whose great wheeze it was to send a seasick film critic to write about his time on the ocean waves. But Jason is happiest on dry land with a classic screwball comedy or Hitchcock thriller.