Review: ‘All About Steve’

I am not even sure where I start with this review. Initially I just wanted to tell you all that this movie was hell and not to go see it, but then I realized that isn’t exactly professional..a 6 word review is not what you expect from the upstanding reviews you usually read on here. So…here…we….go(Yes, I did just reference ‘The Dark Knight’ in a review for a chick flick)

The film was originally due to be released in March of 2009 but got the push in order to…I actually have no idea why they pushed it, what is also less clear is why they ever bothered to release this film. From the trailers on TV they are really trying to play off Bradley Cooper’s success in ‘The Hangover’ as made obvious by the “The Hangover’s Bradley Cooper’.

The film stars Sandra Bullock as this head in the clouds crossword puzzle writer for Sacramento newspaper. She lives with her parents who are desperate to help find someone for her. They set her up on a blind date with a friend’s son played by Bradley Cooper. The date goes horribly wrong when she tries to have sex with him before the date even starts. As any guy would he was into it at first, then quickly realizes she is a psycho and makes up a story about having to go into work. He drops a line about wishing she could come on the road but due to her job she cant.

When she gets fired from the newspaper for making a crossword titled…you guessed it ‘All About Steve’, she takes it as a sign that its meant for her to be on the road with him. In true psychotic woman fashion she decides to stalk him to one of his jobs meets some fellow crazies and they travel cross country stalking Steve.

While Steve is covering the rescue of some deaf children who fell into an abandoned mine she slips into the recently discovered mine and is stuck below. During her time in there she becomes a huge news story, everyone falls in love with her and Steve finally decides that she isnt as crazy as he thought.

Wow…that was difficult to get out. Let me first say that the only really funny part of this film was the deaf children falling in the mine. I know that sounds horrible but not nearly as bad as having to watch 99 minutes of this movie…its atrocious. If it hadnt been for Ken Jeong and the gigantic…eyes of Katy Mixon I probably would have offed myself about half way through. Please do not go see this movie tonight…or ever.

Overall Rating: 0.5 out of 5