This Should Have Been A Comedy

Rating: 2/10 (6 September 2014)

Want to know the worst thing about this film? Scarlett Johansson. As you know, she was the voice of the operating system. And, because I've seen her in many films and recognize her very distinctive voice, all I could do was picture her-- physically -- throughout the entire film. I had recently rented "Don Juan" and it was no stretch whatsoever to visualize her in "Her." Therefore,I pictured Samantha as a human. I kept thinking she would appear any minute and voilà, our Mr. Lonely would be swept up in reality. Solution? Cast a non famous person doing the voice.
The other lousy part of the film: the "sex" scenes -- er -- uh phone sex/mutual masturbation. This is where the film took a dive into pure titillation. It also made me think that yes, this screenplay was written by a guy who probably likes to masturbate and fantasize about women. Clearly, our Mr. Lonely established at the beginning of the film that he's into porn and regularly calls up chat lines to have phone sex. Hearing Kristin Wiig do the "strangle me with the dead cat" scene was VERY CREEPY.
This should have been a comedy. It should have been a farce. Enough said.