Margaret's Trailer Park: She's Out of My League

The newest raunch comedy to hit theaters March 12 is She’s Out of My League where we are asked to ponder the question, “How can a 10 go for a 5?” I think the catch is we’ve been pondering that one for at least the last five years. Wait, longer, rewind to American Pie, I’ve been wondering about this for at least that long. How can the not so attractive, yet not horrifically ugly guy hook up with the super hot, Victoria Secret model quality girl? I’ve actually been up nights worried about this.*

With that suspension of played-out-plot disbelief aside She’s Out of My League centers around an unconfident “5” played by Jay Baruchel, as circumstances pair him with Alice Eve’s character, the “10” who isn’t afraid to get what she wants. The biggest question surrounding the film is why does she want him? With his family and friends intrigued and wondering the same thing, they are ready with an unending supply of quips and one-liners. Let the belly laughs and chortles commence.*

More than anything, plot, actors, whatever aside, I think the title itself is just rotten and cliché and might well be responsible for 50% of my lack of interest in this film. While the movie doesn’t look to be overly horrible, and I do like the “good” raunch comedies, it does seem to be just another one for the pile of comedies where buddies fill the script with sexual jokes and innuendo that are only half funny.

I suspect that, by the end, the guy will more than likely have struggled to gain the confidence needed to keep the girl, and she, being the girl in these kinds of flicks, will only find him more attractive than before because of all of the hot guys that cheated on her in her past or because she won a bet with her friend. Closing scene: start up close focused in on the cute couple, pan out to reveal children running around them in the backyard, and fade out. Cut! Check the gate. (Did I mention she'll be in a sundress in this scene?)

Of course, I could be wrong.* This movie seems to fit into that newly, as of five minutes ago, labeled genre I’d like to call the Bromantic Comedy. At the top of this list would be the good flicks, like Knocked Up, with all the other films of this genre trickling down from there. At this point, however, it just feels like the novelty has worn off and now we’re just throwing those same actors, Jay Baruchel in this case, into the same reproduced story. She’s Out of My League will be worth a good laugh from the comfort of your own living room on DVD and then tucked away back onto a shelf.

*Denotes sarcasm