Review of She's Out of My League

This is a bottom-shelf comedy with a few funny jokes, and far too little going on to set it apart from any other forgettable misadventure-romantic comedy about aimless 20-somethings. I know...that sounds cynical or overly critical. But trust me, I really wanted to like this movie.It's just that it simply refused to meet me half-way on anything. Jay Baruchel's performance is merely adaquate, nothing more. And besides, it's the same character we've seen from him since Undeclared all those years ago. It's reached its last wind, and here collapses long before the finish line. Alice Eve, our heroine, doesn't have the chops to carry her end of the bargain either. Fortunately for both of them the script does little to push them toward anything challenging, revealing, or transformational, so neither of them actually fail outright. But what we're left with are two characters that do little to impress to begin with and then refuse to evolve over the course of 100 minutes. Surely, reader, you have something more pressing to do with your time. I know I did.