It’s dreadful.
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
Reviews for All About Steve
One might be tempted to call it perfectly dreadful if it didn't seem inappropriate to utter the word 'perfect' anywhere within miles of it.
I'm not sure who Kim Barker is, or what her credentials are. But she has written two of my least favorite screenplays within the last two years.
Although I laughed at a couple of slapstick gags, the rest of this comedy didn't seem very funny to me.
A painfully bland, vapid, irritating and consistently preposterous comedy that's low on laughs and satirical bite.
This kind of premise is touchy, cause it's that kind of humor that comes from awkwardness. It's kind of sad and a little dark. It needs to be handled just the right way, and quite frankly director Phil Traill falls flat on his face.
All About Steve is painful, unfunny and easily one of the worst films of 2009.
It's not all about Steve. And even if it was all about Steve, it still isn't a good story. Why? Steve isn't interesting. Neither is Mary Horowitz, the woman stalking Steve.
Mistaking cute and quirky for teeth-grindingly obnoxious, All About Steve is one of the most irritating moviegoing experiences of the year. Shame on you, Sandra Bullock, you know better than this.
Stick with the premise. The idea behind All About Steve has some potential, but then it slides off into hokey-ville.
An interminable series of gags based around the shrillest, most obvious characters imaginable.
Not without its good bits. Even if you have to watch some supposedly nice guys be mean to get to them.
When Mary tearfully confesses that she wears her red boots because they make her toes "feel like ten friends on a camping trip," the viewer doesn't know whether to explode in laughter or die from the osmosis of Sandra Bullock's own humiliation.
Here's a scorching idea for the producers of the "Saw" franchise: a "Sandra Bullock Slapstick Comedy" death trap.
But the main message ... is that movie studios think a lot of people will pay good money to see Sandra Bullock humiliate herself yet again in front of the camera.
Putting a marshmallow on top of a pile of cooked spinach, is still not a dessert. All About Steve is no comedy, and just might be the worst film of 2009.
Maybe a sitcom laugh track would have helped. At least it would provide a hint of where we’re supposed to chuckle.
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