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All About Steve (2009)

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Reviews Counted:101

Fresh:6

Rotten:95

Average Rating:2.5/10

Consensus: All About Steve is an oddly creepy, sour film, featuring a heroine so desperate and peculiar that audiences may be more likely to pity than root for her.

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Sandra Bullock plays eccentric crossword puzzle constructor Mary Horowitz who, after one short blind date, falls for handsome cable news cameraman Steve (Cooper). Convinced they are soul mates,... Sandra Bullock plays eccentric crossword puzzle constructor Mary Horowitz who, after one short blind date, falls for handsome cable news cameraman Steve (Cooper). Convinced they are soul mates, Mary follows Steve across the country, encouraged by the self-serving actions of news reporter Hartman Hughes (Church). Along the way, Mary befriends an endearing group of oddballs who embrace her idiosyncrasies. --© Fox [More]

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church, Bradley Cooper, Ken Jeong

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church, Bradley Cooper, Ken Jeong, Keith David, M.C. Gainey, DJ Qualls, Beth Grant, Howard Hesseman

Director: Phil Traill

Director: Phil Traill
Screenwriter: Kim Barker
Producer: Sandra Bullock, Mary McLaglen
Composer: Christophe Beck
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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'I'm going to eat you like a mountain lion,' says the sex-starved Bullock as she attacks Cooper in his van, moments after meeting him, in one of several appalling scenes that represent director Phil Traill's idea of cute.

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
11/13/09
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Her most irritating and unfunniest film to date.

Full Review Source: The Age (Australia) | comment Comment
10/22/09
Jim Schembri
Jim Schembri
The Age (Australia)

Sandra Bullock bulldozes the line between a socially awkward character and an annoying human being in a monstrous turkey that can genuinely make a claim to being the worst film of the year

Full Review Source: smh.com.au | comment Comment
10/21/09
Giles Hardie
Giles Hardie
smh.com.au

Despite the cringe early on there is a validation about finding your emotional and intellectual match, not just the fantasy dreamboat.

Full Review Source: At the Movies (Australia) | comment Comment
10/21/09
Margaret Pomeranz
Margaret Pomeranz
At the Movies (Australia)

The taint of desperation lies so heavily on the entire exercise.

Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment Comment
10/21/09
Sandra Hall
Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald

One of the leading candidates for worst film of 2009.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine Australasia | comment Comment
10/21/09
Hilton Thomas
Hilton Thomas
Empire Magazine Australasia

A sad excuse for a film which meshes too many ideas without sticking to one, leaving Sandra Bullock once again flailing in a ridiculous role.

Full Review Source: FILMINK (Australia) | comment Comment
10/21/09
FILMINK (Australia)

Disaster is an eight letter word that aptly describes this grossly misjudged, overplayed, unfunny comedy about a hyper crossword constructor who stalks her blind date. Filled with low points worth of eye-rolling...

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
10/19/09
Louise Keller
Louise Keller
Urban Cinefile

An unmitigated disaster.

Full Review Source: Illinois Times | comment Comment
09/27/09
Charles Koplinski
Charles Koplinski
Illinois Times

If it didn't come from a major studio, I would think the film is a satire of romantic comedies, or at least some kind of avant-garde experiment in testing the limits of audience identification

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
09/22/09
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

Packaged as a romantic comedy but devoid of comedy or romance, this baffling train wreck stars Sandra Bullock as a tediously kooky constructor of crossword puzzles for a Sacramento newspaper.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment 1 Comment
09/21/09
Cliff Doerksen
Cliff Doerksen
Chicago Reader

... hopelessly harebrained ...

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
09/13/09
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

A good idea lurks in the latest Sandra Bullock comedy but it quickly falls into a deep hole.

Full Review Source: Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) | comment Comment
09/11/09
John Wirt
John Wirt
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

Four stages of Acceptance Of 2-Star Movie: 1) Embarrassed for lead character. 2) Embarrassed for actor playing lead character. 3) Admiration for movie's all-out, gawky commitment to awkward comedy. 4) Annoyance with usual rom-com schmaltz-injections.

Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada) | comment Comment
09/11/09
Brian Gibson
Brian Gibson
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

[A] refreshingly quirky comedy.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment 1 Comment
09/10/09
Chuck Wilson
Chuck Wilson
L.A. Weekly

Movies don't get much worse.

Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
09/10/09
Brett Michel
Brett Michel
Boston Phoenix

It gets into McConaughey territory, worse than The Ugly Truth.

Full Review Source: Can Magazine | comment Comment
09/09/09
Fred Topel
Fred Topel
Can Magazine

A talented director might have made Bullock seem like a comic genius, but Phil Traill has no control over tone, leaving the audience unsure whether to laugh or cry.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
09/09/09
Hank Sartin
Hank Sartin
Time Out New York

It fails at everything it attempts to do. There's simply no point for it to exist.

Full Review Source: The Scorecard Review | comment Comment
09/08/09
Jeff Bayer
Jeff Bayer
The Scorecard Review

Sandra Bullock give it that old college try but the movie still flops

Full Review Source: jackiekcooper.com | comment Comment
09/08/09
Jackie K. Cooper
Jackie K. Cooper
jackiekcooper.com
 
 
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