She's Out of My League (2010)

director: Jim Field Smith

writers: Sean Anders, John Morris

starring: Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve

genre: Comedy, Romance

Not only do we romantic films filled with cliches, fairy tales and whatsoever other lie filled conventional story that get made year after year. But we also have films that put their central character in situations that have no possible way of happening or no belief whatsoever of that given situation. "She's Out of My League" try's to be a film about self-confidence and being yourself for love, but fails miserably with a stupid scenario situation, not enough meaning to its plot and poor quality jokes.

Kirk (Jay Baruchel) is the classic cliched character. Fell in love with a bad person and cant get unstuck until he finds the most beautiful person ever. Kirk is skinny & normal looking airport security guard that nobody expects better of him. Molly (Alice Eve) is a beautiful successful event planner that has the world in her hands. Together they are the odd couple that nobody can believe they are together. Both have to overcome their insecurities to make the relationship work and stay in love. If you think about it, its not that bad of a idea. The whole insecurity angle, playing on people's confidence in romance. Just wish it wasn't for the crazy ideas this film has and its easiness to fall on to conventional story progression, it would have been all fine.

The film is filled with classic cliches and set-ups that are quite predictable. The trick of rehashing a plot is having a point to it or brining something a bit more new to the table. Sadly that angle which I mentioned before wasnt enough and not built up in a better way. But the biggest problem is the family setting for the starring character Kirk. We all know these films have people with terrible lives. But when it goes to very unrealistic means I just cant buy it. Supposedly his father bought a pool instead of paying for his college, his ex-girlfriend was practicaly adopted by his family which is never properly defined in the film, and his family love her and her new boyfriend more than him. If you can get around all these silly details you might like the film a little bit more than I did.

It's a conventional romantic comedy with too little comedy, not a strong enough leading male, and a lot of insane ideas that i couldn't go along with. I wouldn't recommend this to anybody even though the film is not the worst of it's genre. In the mood for real romance? See Metroland (1997) or Kate & Leopold (2001).

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Review by Paul