Sadly Over-hyped

As Good As It Gets

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Not as funny as Best Friends or 40 Year Old Virgin, but for a steamy hot Saturday afternoon this was just the escape I needed. Predictable of course, but the talented cast make the material buzz with just the right balance of heart and laugh-out-loud dialogue. Of course you're rooting for the 2 leads, but the rest of the cast (esp TJ Miller - I'm a huge Silicon Valley fan) really make the cliched material a very funny extended ensemble piece. Jay Baruchel's cluelessly shallow family and friends are played to the hilt, no weak links. 10's are reserved for comedy masterpieces like Tootsie, but this is a "hard 7"

Admittedly, just tuning in to find this perfect 10 on the screen held my attention. And then listening to the weedy Kirk played by Jay Baruchel made me like him a lot.Maybe my own experiences of having a perfect 10 (OK, 9+) made me want to see how the film ended, but there were some real laugh out loud moments too.And, of course, you knew there had to be a happy ending - which there was in more ways than one.Checking on IMDb to see what the rating was, I was surprised to see it was so low. I think at least 7.5 or 8 is about right. At least you'll feel good after watching it.So, enjoy this film. It is sweet and so is Alice Eve. Wow!

When 'She's Out of My League' was released, I had never heard of it. In fact I only heard about it three years later when I saw the first 10 minutes on TV. After that 10 minutes, I was interested so I bought the DVD primarily because I dislike not seeing movie endings, and was very pleasantly surprised at the outcome.I thought 'She's Out of My League' was excellent. For a movie that has taken so many used ideas, it manages to blend everything together perfectly into a semi-crude but always cheerful romantic comedy about a regular Joe named Kirk and his struggles when he meets and dates Molly, a girl who is seemingly way higher up than he on almost every scale.I think the main strength of this movie was the characters - prior to seeing it, I'd never heard of any of them, nor seen any movies they'd been in, and I was able to get into the story much better than had it been filled with Hollywood A-listers. The writing was sound, though the ideas were all very formulaic and horribly predictable, however in the end I found that it didn't matter anyway. The withdrawn and kind nature of Kirk, combined with the idiocy (and loyalty) of his mismatched group of friends meant that I couldn't help but love the transition Kirk made from bumbling loser to confident boyfriend of a woman likely to be the hottest girl in the city.Some people seemed to have issues with the vulgar nature of some of the movie, though personally I didn't. I thought most scenes were very funny, and though swearing occurs here and there I thought that most of the comedic scenes were clever enough in construction that they didn't actively detract from the love story going on around them.All in all I was very surprised after watching this movie. I expected that it might be another average romantic comedy that I'd watch a couple of times and then it would wear off, but instead this movie is full of emotion and offers a lot of heart and feeling, something sorely missing in many other films. I'll also specially mention the soundtrack which I personally consider to be one of the best I've heard to date (well, using songs that weren't made for the movie). Yes, the airport scene at the end is horribly cliché, but I can't help but smile every time I hear the opening guitar of Jet's 'Cold Hard B****' as Molly goes chasing after Kirk. Great Stuff.

This movie sends bad messages. The first is that good-looking women are to be worshiped, placed on a pedestal and desired by everyone.Secondly, it then turns around and claims they are achievable by any old loser. It's not just that she's more good looking than him. Jay Baruchel is actually handsome when he's not mugging like an idiot. It's that she's superior to him in every possible way. I don't mind a guy dating up, but he has to bring something, anything to the table. The movie features an inactive protagonist and makes the poor woman who would have no interest in him in real-life do all the work. It's a terrible message to sell to anyone, but especially men.Lastly, we'll never see the gender roles inverted in this scenario.