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The movie is not a comedy classic. But in a genre where so many movies struggle to lift themselves from zero to one, it's about, oh, a six point five.
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What he (Jay Baruchel) brings to She's Out of My League, in addition to the geek and the gawk, is a dash of the debonair, which might seem impossible and yet he does.
What threatened to be yet another routine exercise in raunchiness instead turns out to be a sweet, charming, hilariously funny love story that could emerge as a sleeper hit.
Plausibility aside, the key to making the scenario work is comedy. Much can be forgiven if it delivers enough laughs. That's the main problem here. It's short on clever humor and big on convention and formula.
If you're hungry to see a romantic comedy about a genetically and culturally imbalanced geek-meets-babe relationship that makes the one in Knocked Up look like the quintessence of plausible human mating, then by all means subject yourself to the one-joke subJudd Apatow snark-athon that is She's Out of My League.
If you're going to make a romantic comedy called She's Out of My League about a schlubby nice guy and a pneumatic blonde, the last thing you want is for the audience to be left thinking: "He's right. She's way out of his league."
This appealingly cast movie seesaws from unlikely thoughtfulness to imbecilic vulgarity.
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Silly, harmless Apatow Lite.
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Not if it's a fantasy league, she's not.
