Fever Pitch

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

It's been a while since a movie made the game of love this winning.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The movie has been directed by the Farrelly brothers...Here, they're sensitive and warm-hearted, never push too hard, empathize with the characters, allow Lindsey and Ben to become people we care about.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Baseball, Boston and Drew Barrymore. Certainly sounds like a winning combination.

Variety Brian Lowry

The Farrelly brothers are growing up, which in this case isn't a bad thing. With a tacked-on ending made necessary by the Boston Red Sox's improbable World Series run last fall, Fever Pitch proves a charming romantic comedy against "A Beautiful Mind"-type framework.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

A curious mix of smarts and schmaltz.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Effortlessly entertaining romantic comedy.

Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt

The gall of Peter and Bobby Farrelly. To think that a romantic comedy might work absent a sleazy wager or maddening miscommunication takes a lot of chutzpah.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

The picture's consistently entertaining and, though it has few brilliant comic peaks, it never plunges into boring valleys.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Fever Pitch works. At times, it works brilliantly.

Dallas Observer Jean Oppenheimer

Sails by on cute dialogue, some funny visual gags, and two enormously likable leads.

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

Ultimately goes the distance, it gets the job done with a halfhearted bunt rather than a solid line drive.

Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

Sweet and often hilarious.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

This is Hollywood Hornby: not terrible, but not worth crossing a busy street for, and nowhere near as memorable as what the Sox did last year.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

As a motion picture, Fever Pitch is merely competent.

USA Today Mike Clark

By contrast, other Hornby screen adaptations are "About a Boy" and "High Fidelity"- superb comedies both and, in Fidelity's case, a treatise on male obsession with far more depth and even more laughs.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Relationship comedy like this is mother's milk to Drew Barrymore, who, as usual, is adorable and perfect.

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

For all its various failures, Fever Pitch taps expertly into our nostalgia for an era when baseball really was the American pastime, unsullied by money, drugs or celebrity.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

To call this "Farrelly brothers lite" may be a little redundant, but aside from the odd vomit gag, it goes relatively easy on their usual working-class taboo busting.

The New Yorker David Denby

Has a slapdash feeling to it.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

Barrymore has rarely been so bright and effortlessly charming, but it's all lost on Fallon, who often resembles one of those unfortunate SNL guests who freeze up on live TV, completely out of their element. If Fallon wants a life after SNL, he might want to try another medium.

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

Still, despite the visual clumsiness and the production's tattered seams, I found myself rooting for this movie anyway, partly because Lindsey and Ben make a nice fit, as do the actors playing them, partly because the Farrellys bring so much heart to their movies, and partly because Ms. Barrymore inspires more goodwill than any other young actress I can think of working today in American movies.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

If you're rooting for Barrymore and Fallon, then why not their team? In the movies, there are enough happy endings for everyone.

Slate David Edelstein

I prefer the Farrellys when they're disreputable and push the boundaries of taste, because they're otherwise a tad sentimental.

Empire Miles Fielder

Not a Farrelly brothers classic, and (some testicle-washing aside) not much in the way of their trademark gross-out humour, but the boys from Boston do an admirable job of transferring Hornby's story into the States and onto the baseball diamond.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

Passably entertaining.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

The movie is so soggy and anonymous, I had to remind myself that the Farrelly brothers, Peter and Bobby, directed it. It's sad to watch the kingpins of gross-out try to dial down to cute. Swung at and missed.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Fever Pitch is surprisingly devoid of jokes, or romance, or any of the other basic elements you'd expect to find in a romantic comedy. The only thing the Farrellys get right is the obsession.

Village Voice J. Hoberman

But the ickiest thing about Fever Pitch is its reverential Field of Dreams music.

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

If anything, Fever Pitch will give Bosox fans one more chance to relive, in big-screen glory, those fleeting, flavorsome days.

Premiere Aaron Hillis

One-dimensional fluff piece.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

A romantic comedy that flirts with something serious but never gets past the flirting stage.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

Fever Pitch lacks that Farrelly spark, that warm, crazy glint.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Rarely have filmmakers had a more wildly improbable happy ending forced on them. Well, you need all the help you can get, divine or otherwise, when your two stars - Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon - have no chemistry whatsoever.

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

Honestly, this movie would've worked a lot better had the Red Sox not won the World Series.

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

Unfunny, charmless and hopelessly ordinary.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

It's almost too dull to pan.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Ultimately, it's a bore. Don't see the movie – read the book, play the game.