Review of She's Out of My League (2010) by Chads. — 13 Mar 2010

If Michael Moore can be trusted, Kirk(Jay Baruchel) would stand a better chance of impressing Molly(Alice Eve) if he went through a managerial training program at Taco Bell rather than improving himself by taking aviation lessons.

The TSA agent wants to be a top gun like Molly's ex, but being Big Enchilada at a TB might be the more lucrative option, since Moore reports in the documentary "Capitalism: A Love Story" that commercial airline pilots are overworked and grossly underpaid.

His future vocation is out of the fast food industry's league. This film, selling the ultimate male fantasy: the geek gets the goddess(John Hughes was a realist), plays like "Nottting Hill" with a Judd Apatow sensibility.

Agnate to the protagonist, "She's Out of My League" itself feels like the five that Stainer(T.J. Miller) pegs him as, so this uneven, but mostly winning film overcompensates with gross-out humor to close the numerical gap in a concentrated effort to remain in the company of consensus ha-ha filmic tens such as Apatow's "Knocked Up" and The Farrely Brothers' "There's Something About Mary".

For instance, the filmmaker thinks he's scoring points with a poorly staged scene centered around the after-effects of premature ejaculation. It deserves a demerit point because Kirk could easily have covered the evidence with his shirt.

On the other hand, admittedly, the other raunchy set-piece: Kirk's "haircut", gets the point back. It's almost touching how far Devon(Nate Torrance) will go for Kirk in the name of friendship.

Almost. But the scene's effectiveness is beside the point in a film that features two charismatic actors with enough chemistry to stay in the romantic comedy major leagues without the assistance of a dog with indiscriminating taste, and male enhancement trickeration.

"She's Out of My League" is a "chin-chin"(Kirk says this as he clinks flutes with Molly on a dinner date) to hopeless romantics who are rewarded with a patriarchal wish fulfillment that has no bearing on real life.