Tagline: It'll all add up March 5th
So this movie looked like it could be a little funny or it could just totally fail. It was from Dreamworks which was promising given their superb track record. The trailer was funny enough although I originally thought it may have used up all the funny lines in the trailer, which many un-funny comedies do.
The plot follows Jay Baruchel, a high school graduate who works in airport security and is a self-admitted 5, who begins a relationship with a hard 10, Alice Eve, after they meet at the airport and he finds her lost iPhone. The movie then follows the course of their relationship and the meddling of the friends and ex-lovers alike.
The plot was more or less predictable except it didn’t follow the normal epiphany of the hot girl at the end of the movie who realizes she loved the geek the whole time, which was a little refreshing. However, the plot was about the comedy rather than a deep look into their relationship. It had a nice mixture of one-liners and running gags and didn’t have any over the top crude bathroom humor, often found in younger comedies. That doesn’t mean it didn’t include a fair amount of f-bombs and sex humor though. There were some really great quotable parts of this movie and some seriously funny gags. Overall, the plot was not completely believable but enough for the movie. Although it will give some of us 5’s some false hopes about catching a 10.
I was expecting some title sequencing with the equation of the numbers as shown in the trailers as well as it being a product of Dreamworks, but this wasn’t the case. There was no titling sequencing. The picture was shot well in good resolution on par with most other semi-romantic comedies. The movie had a nice pace and didn’t have any real noticeable lags.
Most of the humor should be credited to the trio of guys,; Jay Baruchel ,the awkward sweet geek, T.J Miller, the crude dude who seemed to be channeling Napoleon Dynamite, and Nate Torrence the Disney obsessed optimistically plump friend. These three did a great job and provided most of the laughs in the movie. Alice Eve was pretty and pulled off her character well and had good chemistry with Jay. Most of the other actors did well especially with Debra Jo Rupp from That 70’s Show fame. I also thought the girl from Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Lindsay Sloane, did pretty well although she was borderline annoying. And Alice Eve's parents were completely believable as her parents. . . interesting fact: they were her real-life parents.
Overall, the movie was pretty funny and wasn’t over the top. There was one gross-out scene, maybe two, but it really seems that all movies of this caliber have to have one gross scene to keep people talking about it the next day. I don’t think it was quite as epic as Superbad or Knocked Up, but it was close. It had some great funny bits and added a little bit of romance in there and maybe some artificial optimism for us as well. It would make a good date movie, since it’s got the romance and the raunchy comedy in a nice balance. "He's like a spider; He's more afraid of you than you are of him, and he's got long legs."
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