She's Out of My League (2010)

Best movie of this year hands down!

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Blistering performances.

I lost track at how many times I laughed. I think I pulled a stomach muscle. What a good movie. Awesome writing! Feels good, like watching a John Hughes film.

Baruchel is somewhat nerdy airport employee who happens to help drop-dead gorgeous Eve in distress, after much support from his gang of airport friends he asks her out. He expects the hammer to fall at any time. In one of the great lines of romantic comedy moviedom, his friend says of a prior relationship "I was a 6, maybe a 7, but she was a hard ten .... I just couldn't beat the spread". The same is expected by Baruchel and the question becomes can he live with the fact that his girlfriend is much better looking (and successful) as him? Eve is great, Baruchel is great, his little ensemble of friends play well, including an old girlfriend reinterested in him given his success with Eve. There are the usual embarrassing scenes that are in every movie of this sort but I found this more intelligent and several steps above most of the entries in the American Pie/Porky's genre. Recommended as a light romantic comedy.

She's Out of My League (2010): Dir: Jim Field Smith/ Cast: Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve, T.J. Miller, Mike Vogel, Lindsay Sloane: Comedy that examines the attitude when it comes to physical attractiveness. Jay Baruchel plays an airline security guard who retrieves the cell phone of gorgeous Alice Eve who misplaced it. To his bewilderment they hook up and everyone speculates regarding why she would hook up with him. Director Jim Field Smith does his best with the cliché ridden script. He asks the right questions regarding the opinions of others when it comes to relationships but the delivery is far from a perfect ten. Problem is that Baruchel and Eve lack chemistry. His character may be awkward but he is also unsympathetic. A scene where her parents walk in on them having sex could have been funny but instead it leaves him looking like a moron. She is great eye candy but needs more than just a slapped on event planner job. Eve is truly fetching to the eyes but that is the height of her performance here. T.J. Miller and Mike Vogel also appear as his friends of bad advice. They observe and form obnoxious opinions as to why he is not right for her and that the laws of attractiveness are being violated. Lindsay Sloane plays Baruchel's ex-girlfriend who split likely so to avoid being in the rest of the film. Its theme is right on with these arguments but the couple here just isn't believable. This film is out of its league when being compared to real romantic comedies with real feeling. The couple featured here is about as compatible as comparing this film to Casablanca. Score: 4 / 10

For as much as I can admit this is a relatively formulaic romantic comedy that kinda tells you most of the story in the title, I must say I enjoyed this one quite a bit more than the average rom-com, and not just because of Alice Eve's lingerie scene (though, WHOA...). Proclaimed on the cover as "The funniest comedy since 'The Hangover' " (again?), I found it significantly funnier and not worthy of the comparison. Besides the main story, there's a hilarious sub-plot about they guy's ex-girlfriend basically being adopted by his family and he has to endure not just her presence at every gathering, but her new boyfriend's as well. Plus there's that underwear scene. Lots of humor in the uncomfortable parts (and Jay Baruchel is uncomfortable pretty much all the time), the couple is believable for being worlds apart on the attractiveness scale, and the ancillary characters are enjoyable. There's a bit of raunchiness, but it is an R-rated comedy. And did I mention Alice Eve in her skivvies? 7/10