She's Out of My League

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Holleman

If all you want from a movie are generous doses of laughs and some tender moments, She's Out Of My League should be right up your alley.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

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.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

You don’t need to root for the best movies and you don’t want to root for the worst. But, occasionally, along comes a picture so nearly good that you dearly wish it were better. Welcome to She’s Out of My League, where the rooting interest is strong but so is the frustration.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

The humor gets raunchy enough to earn the "R" rating, but in some ways, it's pretty tame, especially in the wake of "The Hangover."

Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey

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.

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

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.

Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz

There's plenty of gross-out humor and lots of sex jokes, some of them absurd, some really funny. But what elevates She's Out of My League - it doesn't turn a 5 into a 10, but it helps - is heart, of which its characters have a surprising plenty.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

She's Out of My League essentially plays its central premise straight, although the film does find time to veer into gross-out humor.

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

Fortunately, the actors are so likable that these wincingly unfunny moments don't spoil the party.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

A rowdy blast because the spiky young cast treats the played-out script like virgin territory. That's acting!

Time Out New York Joshua Rothkopf

you sense that "The Hangover" loomed large over this production. Still, Eve has a true flair for zingers, and the movie’s heart survives intact.

Boxoffice Magazine Pam Grady

Sometimes hilarious, occasionally outrageous and terribly uneven.

Chicago Reader Cliff Doerksen

Director Jim Field Smith lifts his best beats from Judd Apatow, and his worst from "American Pie."

New York Post Kyle Smith

Scenes that should be grotesquely funny deliver only chuckles rather than a big payoff.

USA Today Claudia Puig

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.

Boston Globe Lucy Barber

While Baruchel is fun to root for and watch flail about like a pipe-cleaner in the wind, this movie encourages a sick desire in me -- to see Michael Cera and all the runners-up in the Mr. Puniverse Contest knocked down a peg by a bully with a neck the size of a tree trunk.

Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore

There are a few sensitive scenes, but it’s the big blasts of raunchy that deliver its laughs.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

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 sub–Judd Apatow snark-athon that is She's Out of My League.

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

I laughed here and there at She's Out of My League, but I sort of hated everything it had to say about nerds and babes and the sliding scale of self-image.

LA Weekly Robert Wilonsky

Slight comedy, directed by Jim Field Smith, who tries with modest success to blend the sticky-sweet with the plain ol' sticky.

Variety John Anderson

This appealingly cast movie seesaws from unlikely thoughtfulness to imbecilic vulgarity.

The New York Times Mike Hale

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.”

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

Even though She’s Out of My League ends exactly where you think it will, it does so without ever having actually gone anywhere at all.

St. Petersburg Times Steve Persall

The only memorable aspect of She's Out of My League is Eve's performance. Not that it's good, but it does possess the hypnotic quality of a flicker ring.

San Francisco Chronicle Walter Addiego

About as close to pure mall fodder as you'll see.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

Baruchel and Eve never shed that awkward first-date chemistry, which speaks less to their talents or the possibilities of mismatched romance than to a movie that forces them together like animals being mated in captivity.

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

Unfortunately, the movie is the worst sort of liar: an unfunny one. Its gormless, assertion-free protagonist offends as a role model for idio youths, and, even worse, offends as drama.

Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

There are only two really good jokes -- or two really gross ones, depending on your sensibility -- in She's Out of My League. Both of them are stolen.

New York Daily News Joe Neumaier

Would like to think of itself as an extension of its lead character -- gangly, a bit uncouth, but ultimately sweet. Unfortunately, it's more like the best friend in a movie like this -- irritating, unfunny and something that hangs around longer than it should.