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    Robin is the comedic relief character in the story and helps prop up the film's energy in the first third with her maniacal thirst for revelry before retreating. The film sporadically lurches between Alice's diary-style ruminations and some wild "Hangover"-esque craziness from Robin. However, the film fails to truly explore the real emotions of being single, instead relying on stereotypical characters and formulaic relationships. It offers only superficial comparisons to "Sex and the City" without tapping into the heart of what it means to navigate life as a single woman.

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    Robin is the comedic relief character in the story and helps prop up the film's energy in the first third with her maniacal thirst for revelry before retreating. The film sporadically lurches between Alice's diary-style ruminations and some wild "Hangover"-esque craziness from Robin. However, the film fails to truly explore the real emotions of being single, instead relying on stereotypical characters and formulaic relationships. It offers only superficial comparisons to "Sex and the City" without tapping into the heart of what it means to navigate life as a single woman.

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    Robin is the comedic relief character in the story and helps prop up the film's energy in the first third with her maniacal thirst for revelry before retreating. The film sporadically lurches between Alice's diary-style ruminations and some wild "Hangover"-esque craziness from Robin. However, the film fails to truly explore the real emotions of being single, instead relying on stereotypical characters and formulaic relationships. It offers only superficial comparisons to "Sex and the City" without tapping into the heart of what it means to navigate life as a single woman.

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    ) tells her regretfully single sister, Alice (Dakota Johnson), to stop watching “Sex

    and the City” — a wink-wink inside joke not only because they’re starring in an
    adaptation of the first novel by that show’s writer and story editor, Liz Tuccillo,
    but also because in every respect, Christian Ditter’s film plays like a facing little in
    the way of female-centric theatrical competition, its thin plotting and general
    dearth of laughs will likely inspire only unflattering comparisons to the escapades
    of Carrie Bradshaw and company.

    Working from a screenplay by Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein and Dana Fox, “How to
    Be Single” eschews its source material’s primary plot, in which Alice embarks on an
    “Eat Pray Love”-style international trek to achieve self-definition through singlehood.
    Instead, it able.

    Robin is the story’s de facto comedic relief, and thus devoid of the contrived character
    arcs with which the rest of the characters are saddled. After four years of dating in
    college, Alice has broken up with nice-guy Josh (Nicholas Braun) in order to experience
    being alone for the first of solitude as an ideal time for doing those things about which
    she’s always dreamed. A less happy vision of being single is provided by Meg, a
    middle-aged obstetrician who likes to stridently lecture her younger sibling about the
    joy of putting

    (Anders Holm), a brazen hit-it-and-quit-it bachelor who counsels Alice in the ways of
    casual sex and commitment avoidance (the key, he believes, is keeping no breakfast
    food in his fridge and Excel has no connection to the rest of the film’s female players,
    little purpose to the primary action at hand.

    While Lucy searches for a soulmate on “How to Be Single’s” periphery — a quest that
    leads her to a largely squandered Jason hooks up with both Tom and single dad David
    (Damon Wayans Jr.). Like her evening trysts, these relationships are of a blink-and-
    you’ll-miss-them variety, dramatized with such the film’s attempts, during its birthday-
    party climax, to make them resonate emotionally comes across as both misguided and
    desperate.

    “How to Be Single” sporadically lurches away from Alice’s “Dear Diary”-grade


    ruminations to partake in some “Hangover”-ish craziness courtesy of Wilson’s Robin, a
    walking libido who operates according to a “drink number” theory — i.e., a
    mathematical equation that stipulates every couple will have sex if they exceed a certain
    quantity of alcoholic beverages — and who, during one particularly amusing scene,
    shames Alice for having unkempt nether-regions that resemble Gandalf. Robin’s
    maniacal thirst for revelry props up the film’s first third, and her eventual retreat into the
    background accounts for the fizzling energy of the later, more somber portions.

    Johnson’s blandly earnest performance contributes to the listless atmosphere, as does


    Ditter’s pedestrian direction, which is most notable for utilizing cutesy graphics for text
    conversations (a device that’s fast becoming its own cliche). Most of the blame,
    however, falls on a script awash in various stereotypical ciphers partaking in formulaic
    hot-and-cold affairs. Even Meg’s May-December fling with young Ken (Jake Lacy),
    which is complicated by her decision to have a child via artificial insemination, hinges
    on a groan-worthy role reversal: She wants to be the breadwinner, he’s content with
    becoming a stay-at-home dad. Splintered between thinly sketched focal points rather
    than actually plumbing the real fear, paranoia and elation that come from operating
    without a romantic partner, “How to Be Single” never transcends its most sitcom-y
    instincts.

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