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sirkh1 [ 5.5 ]
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Certainly not a great movie, and not one I'll buy. But there's a decent chance I'll see it again. "Knocked Up"'s Jay Baruchel is socially awkward, and does not pull off the likability many other movie characters with that trait have in the past, but he does alright. You still want to see him succeed, so that counts. Otherwise, despite the fact that it's pretty unrealistic a girl as pretty as Alice Eve would fall in love with him, it has some funny parts and a few good messages to show its audience: don't settle (ironically enough, I was watching "Shallow Hal" yesterday and that was one of the things Hal's father told him on his deathbed), and self-esteem is necessary in a relationship.
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DokBrowne [ 7.0 ]
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Jay Baruchel acts too much with his hands and body. He gestures too wildly and won't stop moving even when he's saying something very simple. That works in this movie, where his gangly awkwardness helps define him as just a "5" compared to the "10" of a perfect hottie who becomes his girlfriend, but it's still a dangerous element, likely to irritate the shit out of some viewers. In the future, I'm not sure how appropriate his exaggerated nerd-isms will be, but at least here it can be excused yet again (after similar work in every single TV show and film he's made up to this point), maybe even appreciated, as part of his character, as he uses this body language to its full, grating capacity.
The movie itself is antoher profane high-concept rom-com in the post-"American Pie" and Judd Apatow era. In the pantheon of such endeavors, it's a minor league outing, maybe like the Patrick Dempsey vehicle "Can't Buy Me Love" was to the '80s, but like that movie, this is cute and diverting enough to warrant a recommendation. Fairly good but with limited aspirations. It doesn't deal fully with its pitch (a winner dating a loser) but treats it with relative intelligence and consideration in the serious moments so it's not just another dumb gimmick. Pandering does occur, however, in the supporting cast, full of either Stifler-ish scene stealers like Baruchel's best friend (who actually has some pretty plum lines and delivers them well even though the actor's facial expression never changes) or, much more poisonously, his ill-conceived one-dimensional ex-girlfriend and boorish family, both of whom are mined for laughs again and again yet never produce a single one. They're just loathsome caricatures, and throw the rest of the silly-sweet film out of balance.
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| Weighted Rating | : 6.3 |
| No. Ratings | : 4 | |
| No. Reviews | : 3 | |
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