All About Steve was released in theaters on Friday, September 4, 2009. It is a romantic comedy starring Sandra Bullock, Bradley Cooper, Thomas Haden Church and directed by Phil Traill.
All About Steve lacks everything that a true romantic comedy should have; romance comedy, or anything else that would deem it a worthwhile watch. Film critics are almost unanimous in their reviews that name this movie a farce and definitely a candidate for worst movie of the year.
- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Bullock, as a delusional crossword puzzle creator who stalks a TV cameraman, "hits the lowest point of her career" in "this unwatchable, unbearably unfunny farce."
- Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: "Since Bullock co-produced this masochistic venture, it seems she buys into the idea that fluffer-nut ditziness is what she does best. Except it isn't."
- Ty Burr, Boston Globe: "Easily the worst movie of the week, month, year, and Bullock’s entire career. It is to comedy what leprosy once was to the island of Molokai: a plague best contemplated from many miles away."
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Sandra Bullock plays Mary Horowitz, an
eccentric crossword puzzle creator, who after one blind date with cable news cameraman Steve (Cooper) falls head over heels. She is so convinced that she has found her soul mate that she launches on a campaign to win his affections while following him all around the country. The intentions of the movies are good however fall short of completion. It was barren of a single redemptive quality, if not for its power to exhibit stalkers for whom and what they genuinely are: angelic, misconceived people who just need someone to appreciate their batty, clingy behavior. And to think, I used to figure them as unsafe, egotistical lunatics who often murder the objects of their obsessions. "
All About Steve" set me straight, though. Now, thanks to
Sandra Bullock’s indefinable performance, I know they're just riotous free spirits who refuse to take "no" for an answer. It did take a long time for that message to come home, however. Probably because the sight of a putty-faced 45-year-old woman dressed in a micro-mini and knee-high red vinyl boots was pretty scary. All along the way, Cooper’s portentous reporter colleague, Hartman Hughes, played with nada enthusiasm by Thomas Haden Church, eggs Mary on, cheering her to gratify her troubling psychosis as part of a practical joke he’s playing on Steve. I found it to be quite predictable, silly and unoriginal, not to mention pretty annoying.
Labor Day historically has never been a good weekend to
release a film. The top two feature films brought in the expected low numbers. The Final Destination grossed $12.4 million and
All About Steve brought in $11.2 million. Fox is still happy about those numbers.
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