Philip French 

She’s out of My League

Philip French on She's Out of My League
  
  

She's Out of My League
Alice Eve stars as Molly in the comedy She's Out of My League. Photograph: Darren Michaels Photograph: Darren Michaels/PR

This lacklustre comedy in the Judd Apatow-Farrelly Brothers manner pushes the envelope of taste but finds little inside. A gawky airport security officer (Jay Baruchel), dumped by his mindless girlfriend, meets a beautiful event planner (Alice Eve) on the rebound from affairs with handsome, successful, professional men whose search for perfection embarrasses her. The film poses the related, mildly interesting questions: can he recognise his luck? Can she find contentment with a kindly mediocrity? The makers, however, are more interested in the significance of a man shaving his testicles before what he anticipates as a night of romance, and in how the hero will react when his girlfriend's parents arrive just after he's had a premature orgasm while kissing their daughter.

 

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