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All About Steve
Overwhelming dislike
Based on 27 critic reviews
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Based on 40 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by: Kim Barker
Directed by: Phil Traill
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 4, 2009
Running Time: minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for sexual content including innuendos
Starring Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church, Bradley Cooper, Ken Jeong, DJ Qualls, Katy Mixon, and Howard Hesseman
All About Steve in a hilarious tale of a woman who, after falling hard for a guy, thinks they're an item; unfortunately, he thinks she's stalking him! (20th Century Fox)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Staff (Not credited)
Bullock, easing into her mid-40s with box-office mojo intact, remains the star attraction as the annoyingly endearing Mary. You simply can't imagine another actor of her stature pulling it off.
Read Full Review >St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams
There are good movies to be made about romantic obsession, but the premise doesn't work if the crazy stalker isn't juxtaposed with a sympathetic victim.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The screenplay by Kim Barker requires Bullock to behave in an essentially disturbing way that began to wear on me. It begins as merely peculiar, moves on to miscalculation and becomes seriously annoying.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Struggles mightily to find its loony essence. But Bullock's apple-cheeked larkishness is all flailing limbs and bug-eyed reaction shots - there's no there there. Cooper's character is woefully underwritten, Church's is yet another vain anchorman-wannabe cartoon.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Manages to be both toothless and tasteless in its satire of TV news sensationalism.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
There’s nothing wrong with All About Steve that a rewrite couldn’t fix, as long as the rewrite involved a different writer, a different character and a different story.
Read Full Review >NPR Ella Taylor
If it's about anything at all, the lame new comedy All About Steve is mostly about Mary, a logorrheic crossword compiler with too much arcane information in her head -- and the social skills of an excitable 6-year-old boy.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
A viewer is challenged to guess what the filmmakers thought they were doing. A 1930s screwball comedy with a modern sensibility? A misguided valentine to those who march to the beat of a different drummer?
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
A creepy, humiliating ''comedy,'' playing to Bullock's worst instincts for demonstrating the lovability of women who don’t fit in.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli
There's no footing in reality. Nothing about it feels authentic: not the blathering Mary, not the lifeless secondary characters, not the bromide-happy dialogue or the plot that twists less often than it spasms.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Bullock does her damndest to be nerdy and instead becomes excruciatingly artificial - a malfunctioning verbal fun machine.
Read Full Review >Time Out New York Hank Sartin
A talented director might have made Bullock seem like a comic genius, but Phil Traill has no control over tone, leaving the audience unsure whether to laugh or cry.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Just when you think your jaw can't drop any lower in appalled amazement, comes a romantic comedy so lunkheaded and ill-conceived that it makes your average, idiotic Kate Hudson-Matthew McConaughey outing look like the reincarnation of Hepburn and Grant.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
The concept of an intelligent woman is apparently so exotic to Ms. Bullock and her director, Phil Traill, that they frantically kook the character up, as if female smarts were a kind of disability. This being a contemporary big-studio release, I suppose it is.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Robert Abele
A dippy clunker like All About Steve has no purpose other than as a challenge: If you laden a usually charming A-lister with a thoroughly off-putting, unhinged character, can she claw her way to likability? The short answer is no. The long answer is, what in the world was Bullock, who also produced the movie, thinking?
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Much of what's offensive and insufferable about All About Steve can be laid at the feet of screenwriter Kim Barker, best known for inflicting "License to Wed" on the world. Why do these people still earn obscene amounts of money churning out dreck? And why do stars like Bullock keep paying them?
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Since Bullock coproduced this masochistic venture, it seems she buys into the idea that fluffer-nut ditziness is what she does best. Except it isn't.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Cliff Doerksen
Packaged as a romantic comedy but devoid of comedy or romance, this baffling train wreck stars Sandra Bullock as a tediously kooky constructor of crossword puzzles for a Sacramento newspaper.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
How do you make a movie about a protagonist so profoundly irritating that even her loved ones barely tolerate her? And how do you avoid annoying audiences to the point of distraction in the process?
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 3.9 (out of 10) based on 40 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Maxine K. gave it a5:
Yes the movie was as bad as they say, but I did not mind seeing it, nor did I regret it. I went to see the film because I wanted to laugh and laugh I did, even if it was at how bad it was... I've seen worse and at no point did I even consider leaving the theatre.
Tea Cookies gave it an8:
This movie was fun to watch. Of course like any comedy you can't take it serious so just sit back and enjoy.
Lance E gave it a2:
Generally awful with an occasional giggle every 15 minutes. The most redeeming factor is that since my wife picked out this crap-fest, I will get at least 6 months of leverage to unilaterally choose the movies we see.
Aaron A. gave it a0:
I went to the theater and bought tickets to this movie. Watched 5 minutes and it was the most pathetic attempt at humor i have ever seen, along with norbit. I got a refund and ended up seeing jennifers body, which was amazing. go see that movie instead.
Lauren gave it a1:
I am a movie person, don't get me wrong. I love going to the movies and I enjoy everything from Sweeney Todd to things like 17 again. But this? Just plain dumb! It was stupid. Not much to say about it except I did not LIKE this movie at all!
Carter W. gave it a10:
This movie, despite the obvious pretensions of these critics, is the best movie that I have seen since Georgia Rule. Movies of this caliber rarely make their way into wide distribution, because the movie-watching public generally does not care about such crucial elements as plot, depth, and emotional vitality--all they want is ironic banter that tries to be witt, but sounds like a couple of undergraduate improv comedy actors in a survey level Philosophy class, second rate indie pop soundtracks, or glorious T&A. I sincerely thank Kim Barker and Phil Traill for not kowtowing the tends of the vulgar masses, and crafting a work of art worthy of absolute veneration and cultural consecration.
TDKinDallas gave it a4:
Really bad, but I did laugh a lot. This is one of those movies that you have to wonder how it ever got green-lighted.
