She's Out of My League

Plot synopsis:
Kirk Kettner (Jay Baruchel) is a twenty-something TSA officer employed at the Pittsburgh International Airport along with his friends, fellow TSA officer Stainer (T. J. Miller), airline reservations agent Devon (Nate Torrence), and baggage handler Jack (Mike Vogel). Kirk has a poor track record with dating and is hoping to reconcile with his self-centered ex-girlfriend, Marnie (Lindsay Sloane), who despite having broken up with him two years earlier, and having since found a new boyfriend Ron (Hayes MacArthur), has remained close with Kirk's parents (Debra Jo Rupp and Adam LeFevre), brother Dylan (Kyle Bornheimer), and pregnant sister-in-law-to-be Debbie (Jessica St. Clair).
At work one morning, an attractive young woman, Molly McCleish (Alice Eve), arrives at the passenger terminal to board a flight to New York City. While proceeding through the TSA security checkpoint, Molly's striking looks attract unwanted attention from several male TSA officers who try flirting with her awkwardly. Kirk is the only TSA officer to treat Molly courteously. On the airplane, she realizes that she accidentally left her cellphone in the airport security area. When she calls up her phone, Kirk answers and arranges a time to meet the following evening so that Kirk can return it.
When Devon and Kirk arrive at the Andy Warhol Museum, where Molly, a lawyer-turned-event planner, is managing an event, Kirk collides with Molly's sister, Katie (Kim Shaw) and spills his drink on the museum director. Kirk takes the blame for the incident to protect Katie, after which a grateful Molly offers Kirk tickets to a Pittsburgh Penguins hockey game at the Mellon Arena. When Kirk and Stainer meet Molly and her best friend Patty (Krysten Ritter), who develops an immediate mutual loathing with Stainer (he subsequently refers to her as "The Hamburglar"), at the game, Kirk, still convinced Molly is not interested in him, assumes Molly meant to set him up with Patty, until Patty explicitly tells him of Molly's interest.
The two begin to date after this, with Kirk confiding in her his dream of becoming a pilot someday, though Stainer predicts their relationship will fail as he deems Molly a "10" in a scale of attractiveness, and Kirk only a "5", telling him a girl he loved once broke up with him for this very reason. Patty, for her part, believes Molly had only chosen Kirk because he was a "safe" choice after being hurt by her last boyfriend, Air Force pilot Cam (Geoff Stults), who assumes Kirk is a waiter and attempts to order drinks from Kirk when they first meet, and then believing Kirk to be a homosexual friend of Molly's.
Molly then invites herself to Kirk's family lunch, where she charms his family and even Ron after highly intimidating the men of the house with her looks. Molly's attentions to Kirk stir jealousy in Marnie, who feels upstaged by Molly's attractiveness, and takes a sudden interest in Kirk again.
After returning to Molly's apartment, Kirk ejaculates prematurely in his pants when things start to heat up, just as Molly's parents (played by Eve's real-life parents, Sharon Maughan and Trevor Eve) arrive for a surprise visit. Desperate to conceal the stain on his pants, Kirk seems discourteous by avoiding to stand up and shake hands, and quickly leaves Molly's apartment. Molly grows cool to Kirk after this, believing he fled to avoid meeting her parents. At Jack's urging, Kirk admits the true reasons for his leaving, and their relationship resumes.
During a date, Kirk suggests to Molly that she throw a birthday party for Katie (with music provided by Stainer's Hall & Oates tribute band, "Adult Education"). Kirk is troubled, when Molly is intentionally vague about Kirk's line of work to her parents. To add to his troubles, Molly's macho ex-boyfriend Cam shows up and messes with Kirk by deliberately alluding to Molly having some sort of "defect".
After the party, both of them go back to Molly's apartment and make out, where Kirk discovers Molly's "defect" is slightly webbed toes, which Kirk considers so minor that he decides that she is indeed too perfect for him. Molly is upset that Kirk is so insecure that he felt he could only be with her if something was wrong with her. After telling Kirk that she and Cam had broken up because of his own insecurities, with him even cheating on her, she admits she had indeed asked Kirk out because she considered him safe and breaks up with him.
Kirk leaves and later resumes his relationship with Marnie, planning on a family trip to Branson.
Stainer and Patty realize their mistake in telling Kirk and Molly it wouldn't work out; Stainer tells Kirk that he is a "10" too. They pull Kirk off his plane as the aircraft prepares to depart to Branson as he tries to leave with his family and Marnie, while Patty brings Molly to the airport. Kirk rejects Marnie during an unorthodox airport pursuit and meets Molly in the airport where she tells him that he is out of shape and she asked him out because she thought he was safe and wouldn't hurt her. She then continues to tell him that she doesn't care what he is employed as and that she misses him and wants to be together with him. Kirk and Molly then make up and resume their relationship, even if their friends don't approve it.
Later, as a surprise, Kirk is seen walking on the airport Tarmac with Molly where he takes Molly on a trip in a small plane, with him as the pilot. The couple are last seen happily together in a small plane taking off from Pittsburgh airport.

Tags: romantic, cute, entertaining, feel-good

Review:
Kirk's friends (played by Mike Vogel, Nate Torrance, and T.J Miller) are identifiable idiots, too wrapped up in over-thinking things like the rating scale (both their number and womens) and Disney fairy-tales to really understand women.
The way the scrawny, nervous, and unconfident Baruchel interacts with the beautiful and engaging Eve is also very likable and they do a nice job of handling the ups and downs of forming an honest, meaningful relationship (an almost foreign concept in today's star-packaged romantic comedies).
His geeky exterior and small frame isn't exactly leading man material however Baruchel's great comic timing and willingness to make a fool of himself if required makes him a likable headliner.On the opposite end of the gender pole is the drop-dead gorgeous Alice Eve who, like Molly, is a hard ten.
Elsewhere in the cast you'll find the previously unknown T.J. Miller as Kirk's best mate Stainer – a character who resembles Napoleon Dynamite if he were on crack cocaine – who delivers a handful of memorable one-liners and plenty of laugh-out-loud moments.A charismatic cast and some hilarious jokes makes this a surprising winner.3.5 out of 5 (1 - Rubbish, 2 - Ordinary, 3 - Good, 4 - Excellent, 5 - Classic).
I saw this at a sneak preview showing knowing very little about the film other than one preview.This film is along the same lines as "Knocked Up" or "Superbad" in that it is rather funny, but at the same time makes you relate to the characters in a way that also tugs at your heart.
But this film had two likable leads that you wanna route for.Kirk(Jay Baruchel from Knocked Up), works at at an airport, he's a nice guy, but painfully shy and insecure.
But the real scene stealer IS T.J. Miller has Kirks friend Stainer, who steals almost every moment when every scene he is in, he's like Jason Segal and Seth Rogen mixed together.I say don't listen to the critics, see this movie and form your own opinion..
And there's also a shaving scene that will rival the one from the third American Pie. Aside from those two scenes and a few others, the movie is actually a really sweet romantic comedy.It's about Molly (Alice Eve), a sexy event planner who gets harassed at the airport by a sleazy employee.
When a chance encounter leads to him meeting Molly (Alice Eve), a nearly- flawless woman (seriously, she's gorgeous in this movie) who seems interested in him despite all odds, Kirk has to deal with the new experience of being a 5 who's dating a hard 10.
Still, the jokes in She's out of my League succeed more often than they fail.The relationship between Kirk and Molly is a little hard to swallow at times, because she seems so determined to like him.
I am Still Laughing and Delighted with the Beauty of Alice Eve. In Pittsburgh, the clumsy and average Kirk (Jay Baruchel) works as a TSA security agent at the airport.
This seems to be the writing teams knack and they're proving to rival the likes of Judd Apatow and Kevin Smith, which previously had the market cornered on intelligent yet crude and vulgar comedies that also prove to be well made and heart felt character studies as well.The duo, at least so far, have also centered on subject matter revolving around the social outcast 'loveable loser' finally winning out and succeeding in life (most notably by winning over the girl of his dreams, who's way out of his league).
Sort of the same area of expertise Smith and Apatow also have and have had great success in.This movie fits the writing team's known formula to a T and tells the story of a pretty average looking 'loveable loser' named Kirk (played by Jay Baruchel, a known Apatow collaborator) who manages to impress a stunningly beautiful woman named Molly (played by newcomer Alice Eve) with his kindness.
The two actually hit it off but due to Kirk's lack of confidence (due in large part to his best friends' constant put downs and demoralizing abuse, which is probably a relate-able subject for a lot of target viewers as well – it is for me) he loses faith in himself and unintentionally sabotages his chances with her.The movie is actually a pretty smart and clever character study and it's definitely inspiring, although it is also pretty far fetched; that a ten would go for a five, as the movie's tag-line states.
The beautiful young actresses in this movie were all great actors and very good looking on screen all the time.
They played their parts really well.The lead actress comes across as being like really out of that guy's league, but you start to look at her and say, yeah she's not so high up there to settle for the guy who works at the airport.The situations that the main actor gets himself into were all hilarious and very believable.
The films saving grace is the chemistry between Jay Baruchel and Alice Eve which at times is so strong it almost makes the movie worth seeing in spite of itself.
If SooML had concentrated on the romantic efforts, I feel like something excellent could have sprung forth, but with its scattershot approach we have only the leads on which to lean.Perhaps the most refreshing thing about League is that Eve's Molly is actually a nice person.
From there we get our normal rom-com story arch which as I stated is heavily bolstered by amazing chemistry and performances from the star-crossed lovers.Also like many movies of this ilk, the friends of the leads are jerks/bitches who more than once, accidentally or intentionally pull Kirk and Molly apart.
We have the three buddies that all have their own "personality" with one being the best friend who tries to get with the main girl character's best friend but is constantly rejected, another friend being the super awkward one that can't live down seeing the positive in everything 24/7 and is thrown in for the one-liners (which in this case is just a bunch of movie references, specifically from Disney), and the third guy whose name you won't ever remember but is there to complete the square and throw in consoling messages to whomever will care to listen...
The only thing that will keep you watching is Alice Eve's hotness (who is not quite a 10, but still very good looking).Aside from the main resolution, this film kicked a lot of subplots to the side of the curb and seemed to forget to write more story that they tried to develop in the beginning of the movie, where everything else pretty much flies out the window.
This created a story that was not believable, and throughout the movie you just sit there and say "Wow this is so fake." Also, we get another character, Stainer (who is pretty much a carbon copy of Stiffler), his jokes are not too funny, but the way he says them makes you laugh, which is where story lacks and acting shines a bit.
But you can trust a comedy to take this premise and spin it into quite the laugh-out-loud flick complete with one-liners, crazy characters, with everything fair game to be poked fun at.Jay Baruchel will likely see his stock rise this year, coming off with providing the voice to what I thought was the best 3D animated film this year in How To Train Your Dragon, before what seemed to be promising in The Sorcerer's Apprentice with Nicolas Cage.
As the TSA airport screener Kirk, his live revolves around talking crap with his airport employee buddies, being bullied at home by everyone save Mom, and has just come off a break up with Marnie (Lindsay Sloane) whom he is trying to woo back.Enter Alice Eve (Crossing Over, Sex and the City 2) as the hottie Molly, who enters Kirk's life when she left her cellphone at the screening station, and being the alpha aggressive female takes bold steps to get to meet up with Kirk to retrieve her phone, invite him out as a thank- you, and soon finds herself attracted to him because he is the quintessential Mr Safe, compared to the jocks she's been out with.
I thought this would be one of the usual underdog gets the girl movies which I tend to like along with basically almost any romantic movie, so I had no problem giving this a go.What a surprise, it was super, I got embarrassed for Kirk a few times and cringed here and there, but overall I really loved the movie.
Kirk (Jay Baruchel) was languishing in a dead-end job as an airport security agent when he somehow managed to earn the affections of the successful and drop-dead gorgeous Molly (Alice Eve).
With his friends, family, and ex-girlfriend all watching stunned from the sidelines, Kirk discovers that he'll have to work overtime in order to convince Molly that he's worth hanging on to.She's Out of My League is a slightly above average little comedy.
I think that if maybe we had a different actor play Kirk than Jay Baruchel it might have been better but the entire time I watched this movie he looked high and I didn't get the feeling that he wasn't acting in this movie.
The storyline of this movie is just like every other hot girl just OK guy love storyboring I think that it would have been better if it had more originality, but what a letdown nothing.
this movie is a true romantic comedy ,there is also it of emotional spice into it .story is pretty simple of a dumb guy with good friendsmeeting a perfect girl and then they find love .
The film also does a neat job with honesty too, but, as in all things fiction, it kind of doesn't entirely convince.The acting is generally okay, Jay Baruchel doing a fair job as the male lead Kirk, and Alice Eve, as Molly (who, if the title of the film is to be believed, is out of almost anyone's league, stunningly beautiful with her blue eye and green eye) very convincing too.
She's out of my League is no world beater but in the genre American Pie created a decade ago it is perhaps the most enjoyable sex-comedy that I can recall since The 40 Year old Virgin 5 years ago and way better than the lamentable American Pie.Kirk (Jay Baruchel) is a nice doormat of a guy.
There is no scene in this film when she is allowed to look anything less than a 9.87 / 10, and of course she is also funny, nice and understanding too, *SIGH*.So a couple of dates in and Kirk realises what he is up against, it seems that Molly is successful and well liked on top of being smokin' hot, and that almost every elite sportsman or good looking guy knows her better than Kirk.Of course Kirk has doubts that this will all work and keeps waiting for the other shoe to drop and for Molly to turf him.
His friends and family don't help much either, his buddies count the seconds until he gets the arse and explain why in painstaking detail, and his family loves Molly more than they apparently love Kirk and openly wonder why she chose him.The movie is pretty formulaic and I grew frustrated at the usual dumb and inexplicable decisions and developments, but in the main the clever dialogue and realistic characters kept me from giving up on the film.Being a sex-comedy there are hijinks galore – nothing too graphic – although one scene has a fairly unpleasant *ahem* outcome and is particularly squirmworthy for all involved.
Otherwise the clichés kick in more quickly than boredom, which itself comes quickly.Kirk (Jay Baruchel in Michael Cera mode), a 5 on the film's male/female rating system, is improbably pursued by Molly (Alice Eve), a hard 10 by his buddies' unanimous, drooling estimate.
A popular formula in the juvenile comedies from the 80's was the one of the classic "loser" who tries to fall in love with the perfect and unattainable girl by using diverse tricks.She's Out of My League transmutes that premise, something which could have offered some originality and new opportunities of humor.However, the inversion of roles is a simple trick to distract us from the many archaic clichés from the screenplay, seasoned with the addition of unfunny scatological jokes.And even though I liked the work from the actors, that was not enough for rescuing She's Out of My League from being a horrible movie.The biggest fail from She's Out of My League is that I did not find it to be funny at all; for many profanity and vulgarity the characters say or do, there is not real ingenuity in their commentaries.Worse yet, there are too many scenes of arbitrary "humor" which arises every time that co-screenwriters Sean Anders and John Morris feel that the story is losing impulse or energy.Among them I can mention the frequent discussions that come from nowhere and do not lead to anything concrete, except to saying things such as "go sh*t your hands" or "snatch parade".I am not bothered by the vulgarity itself; I just disliked the fact that it is used as a replacement of humor by two screenwriters without any spark or personality.As I mentioned on the first paragraph, the only thing I liked in this movie is the competent work from the actors, from Jay Baruchel and Alice Eve in the leading roles, to Debra Jo Rupp, Lindsay Sloane, Jessica St. Clair and Krysten Ritter in supporting roles.Pity that these actors are caught in such a bad movie.So, despite the performances, I cannot recommend She's Out Of My League, because I found it to be a tedious and irritating juvenile comedy which replaces humor by vulgarity and genuine emotions by dramatic devices from a rancid manufacture..
Alice Eve and Jay Baruchel have good chemistry in this vulgar, raunchy comedy about a chance meeting and where the mediocre looking guy gets this super model-esquire type girl.I found a good portion of this movie to be somewhat similar to Knocked Up and Superbad kinda clashing together.
There's a lot of good funny jokes in the movie and it's still romantic at times.
Predictable, yet quixotic comedy about Kirk (Jay Baruchel), a TSA security dealing with a remorseful relationship.The film gave a vibrant and epic glimpse on Molly (Alice Eve) to whom Kirk met in the airport.
He plays the low self esteemed kirk who got lucky with a hot chick, and he made me laugh throughout the film.I agree with some of the reviews who thought the film was more a 'guys' romantic comedy and that there is nothing new they haven't seen.However, I thought the film came together very well and the plot was well written and directed as I did not find a lapse or boring moment during the film.Alice Eve (Molly) was convincing and had her moments in the film, but I thought credit had to be given to TJ Miller (Stainer) who stole the show.
Movie is like a fairy tale: the main character, average looks, but large virtue, he managed to win the beautiful girl.the main actor is quite rickety, unconvincingly, his family is pretty cliché for this genre, so that the whole film is about seems already seen.
I don't know what to say - it's funny enough, and everything enough; here, there is no risk, no film, no reach for greatness it is just what it is a pleasant enough 80s style romantic comedy with the perfect girl falling for the dweeby guy.The family dinner was the highlight as it wasn't all out embarrassing but actually funny, but overall we were neither bored or thrilled.Like I say, you're going on a date and you want something that won't make you gag then this is it.Not bad, not bland just in no way anything you haven't seen before.
if you are looking for having a fun time at the cinema, watch this, i went with my wife and she really enjoy this movie, the only thing i did'nt like, was the Length, in a close of an eyes it was over, this is one of those movies that when you purchase the ticket you are not a hundred percent sure on whether it is a good choice, but after you watch it you realize that it's worth every penny of what you pay, this movie its about a young bellow the average guy that have a low autoestime and falls for a girl that its above his expectation, all his friends think that she's out of his league.
However, I was surprised to find it an enjoyable comedy.The film centers around Kirk Kettner (Jay Baruchel) a man with self- esteem problems whom a dream girl (Alice Eve) fancies.
TSA security man Kirk played subtly by (Jay Baruchel) meets this dynamic and beautiful woman Molly (Alice Eve) at the security check-in and forgets her phone.
Alice Eve is definitely out of Jay Baruchel's league and plays the hottie in a way that makes her very likable not just on the eyes but as a character.
Just like Kirk, he doesn't believe that Molly could really love him because he is only a "5" and his friends tell him that you can only date a girl who is "2" above your score.
Jay Baruchel plays the character of Kirk who is a failure in the game of love and who is rated a 5 by his friends who also rate Alice Eve as a hard 10 ( dude she deserves it!).
But nowhere is it more unexpected than between Kirk (Jay Baruchel), a scrawny TSA worker and Molly (Alice Eve), a blonde bombshell with a successful party planning business.There really isn't much of a story here; like the best romances, it's more about the characters than the plot.