Review: ‘He’s Just Not That Into You’ movie breaks from book’s good advice

Love, an intense feeling of deep affection. People will do anything they can to find it. Hundreds if not thousands of movies have been made about finding love, and even more books written about it.

In the book "He's Just Not That Into You," Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo tell readers how to find true love. Each chapter delves into the many mistakes that girls make when trying to find the right guy by showing their errors in the form of an e-mail. Behrendt then responds to these women who "write" in about their "problems" using witty remarks to pound into their heads that "he is just not that into you."

Reading the book it is easy to see how women would fall for the lines that men throw them, but it is also as easy to see how pathetic these women make themselves seem. Despite how easy it may be to fall for the traps that men seem to always create for women, Behrendt and Tuccillo's advice is solid.

A New York Times best-seller, "He's Just Not That Into You" recently has been turned into a motion picture, but the name is about all the film and book have in common.

The Baltimore-set movie begins with a young Gigi, who is played as an adult by Ginnifer Goodwin, who was just told that when guys are rude to her, that means they actually like her. This begins the film's endeavor to point out traditional myths and set the truth free.

The adult Gigi is struggling to find true love after her latest date, Connor, played by Kevin Connolly, failed to call her after a night out. Gigi then goes out to a bar where she meets Alex, played by Justin Long, who sees right through her lie when she tells him she is waiting for Connor to give him back his dentist's pen.

Alex takes on the role that Behrendt played in the book. He tells Gigi that Connor is just not that into her.

This scene from the movie is how the rest of the film goes in providing advice; the movie tends to break away from the straightforward guidance the book's authors prided themselves on giving.

Because of this, the movie tends to get confusing, leaving one with a traditional Hollywood chick flick filled with tons of pathetic women.