What a disaster She's Out Of My League is. Watching it was
similar to the pain I imagine one would feel after being kicked in the
face repeatedly by someone wearing baseball cleats. And it's really too
bad because there are a lot of talented people wasted in it. Between eye
rolling, groaning, and fits of utter boredom where the Exit sign in the
theatre was more entertaining than the movie, I might have chuckled at
about three scenes in total.
Kirk (Jay Baruchel) is an average
guy who works at the Pittsburgh airport with his three equally average
friends. When Molly (Alice Eve), an insanely hot events planner, enters
his life and shows interest in him, he starts to wonder what her motive
is behind it. As his friends make clear to him -- he's a 5 and she's a
hard 10. All Molly wants is a normal, safe guy though and Kirk is all
those things, plus he makes her laugh. Will his insecurities ruin his
chance at being with her? By the time we get to that part does anyone
really care?
Baruchel, who you might remember from bit parts in Knocked
Up and Tropic Thunder, is moving into leading man roles with
She's Out Of My League, and he's really not that good at it.
He's too scrawny and awkward to watch for long periods of time, and what
works for him as the side man just doesn't fly as a lead. A lot of the
problems with the film stem from a bad script though, because even
supporting turns from usually funny actors T.J. Miller and Nate Torrence
were absolutely torturous to endure.
She's Out Of My League
has been marketed as a comedy but it's so unfunny that there could be a
class action lawsuit filed against Paramount for false advertising. The
film works best when it's trying to be a grown-up comedy similar to Knocked
Up. When it ventures back into the adolescent fart joke territory,
which it attempts often, it's so badly timed that the actors are left
out to hang on their words and the theatre is left hearing crickets.
To
sum up how bad it is there's a scene where someone gets too aroused and
has an accident in their pants. It felt like a recycled joke from American
Pie, which in this day and age is not as funny as it was back in
1999.
* out of 5 stars
Rated R
Cast: Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve
Directed
by: Jim Field Smith
Official
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image: A scene from She's Out Of My League. Courtesy Paramount Pictures.