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3.8 out of 10

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 92 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 92
  2. Negative: 53 out of 92

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  1. Aug 26, 2011
    1
    What we end up with here is a perplexing situation: The film makes Bullock's character so out-of-touch and so socially awkward that it goes from charmingly quirky to frightening and pitiful. We can't identify with the character because a normal person would react in same way Cooper does, and thus we end up pitying her instead. We also can't laugh at her when the movie tells us to because that makes us feel cruel for laughing at someone so pitiful. This is an awful, awful movie. Expand
  2. Sep 20, 2010
    2
    Ouch. This film hurts. Instead of giving the main character appraisals, she is mocked into being insane and moronic. So many plot holes, bad casting and a completely and utterly creepy and disturbing tone. Avoid. Now.
  3. AaronA.
    Sep 20, 2009
    0
    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.
  4. Johnston
    Sep 7, 2009
    0
    Why would someone as beloved as Sandra Bullock agree to make such a terrible movie? So sad!
  5. DoOood
    Jan 3, 2010
    3
    After a brief tour of being mediocre in The Blind Side, Bullock is back to making unfunny cable television friendly crap. Right there with Miss Congeniality 3 (yet to be released).
  6. DeloresL.
    Sep 10, 2009
    1
    Very disappointing - no plot, Not humorous, skits on tonight show and Saturday night live were better. We walked out half way through.
  7. WendelynD
    Sep 5, 2009
    1
    It was easily one of the most inane movies I've ever seen. It was one cliche after another. It was painful to watch! ..and I like Sandra Bullock.
  8. TomM
    Sep 5, 2009
    0
    The only reason anyone rated this above a zero is because after they paid 20 bucks they were unwilling to admit they wasted their money
  9. RalphieBoy
    Sep 6, 2009
    0
    Awful is the only word to describe this crap.
  10. RienyeN.
    Jan 11, 2010
    0
    Just who gives the green light for movies like these to be made? And more importantly, who keeps giving Bullock jobs? I figured The Proposal was bad but this was just sewerific!This movie was unbearable. I fell asleep...twice!! Poor acting, nothing worth remebering. If you want to keep your sanity do not watch this..and if you're already insane i think playing with your imaginary friends while tons more fun. Expand
  11. TylerD.
    Dec 29, 2009
    3
    This movie was, in a word, embarassing. The plot is pathetic - throughout the whole movie I kept thinking "who would make a movie about this?" Sandra Bullock fit the roll very well - that's all I'll say about the movie.
  12. KP
    Sep 10, 2009
    2
    In general, Sandra Bullock and her agent couldn't pick a decent script if their lives depended on it.
  13. LanceE
    Sep 22, 2009
    2
    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.
  14. Bas1311
    Sep 5, 2009
    1
    I'm a big fan of Sandra Bullock, but this one was just a mess from the start. The main character was annoying and the object of her affection was bland and under-written. Overall, no real redeeming qualities.
  15. DanR
    Jan 19, 2010
    1
    This film was showing as the in-flight movie on our way back from Egypt at the weekend. It was so bad that when we hit some turbulence over Venice, almost half the plane were praying for a plane crash, just to end the agony.
  16. ArtA
    Jan 2, 2010
    0
    Terrible!!! You have got to be kidding me. They must have all been high when they signed on to be in this movie. One of the worst of all time.
  17. RafaelS.
    Jan 3, 2010
    2
    This is awful. Sandra plays an annoying stalking idiot savant. We cringe at her every move. The end.
  18. BrianN.
    Jan 5, 2010
    0
    This movie was a horrendously unfunny piece of crap. Sandra Bullock plays her character perfectly according to script, which unfortunately was a terrible idea. Sad that she can make a wonderful movie like The Blind Side yet turn.
  19. AlexS
    Jan 6, 2010
    0
    This Movie is torturous to watch, i would rather remove eyes then watch this movie again, please for the sake of comedy, DO NOT WATCH THIS FILM!
  20. JackD
    Feb 1, 2010
    0
    Gigantic piece of donkey shit. If anyone enjoys this movie even remotely they need to see a psychiatrist or commit seppuku for betraying the human race. I'm extremely disgusted that I wasted an hour and a half watching this "movie."
  21. DonC
    Oct 21, 2009
    1
    To call this unfit-for-daytime-TV abortion a "work of art" is like calling Nickelback's Silver Side Up a culturally important milestone in music history. Honestly. I was drug to this steaming hunk of crap by a lovely young woman (of course) who just had to see the latest flavor-of-the-week romcom. I entered with zero expectations and left feeling like my sensibilities were beaten to death by shining porcelain veneers and obvious jokes. Please spare yourself the brutality of enduring this trainwreck and do something more fun, like, oh say pulling out your teeth one by one. Avoid! Expand
  22. tyroneA
    Sep 10, 2009
    0
    People actually gave this movie a perfect ten. Then can I give it a negative 100? Hands down it wins the Rasberry as the Worst Movie of The Year. There is no other competition. To enjoy this flick you need to have a lobotomy or check your brains in at the door.
  23. EmilyC.
    Sep 11, 2009
    2
    I love both Sandra Bullock and Thomas Hayden but the movie was so bad I walked out of the theater. It was a waste of my time!
  24. TDKinDallas
    Sep 12, 2009
    4
    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.
  25. FredB
    Sep 4, 2009
    0
    This movie sucked. Worst movie of '09 and probably the decade.
  26. ChadS
    Sep 4, 2009
    2
    Happy-go-lucky Mary Horowitz(Sandra Bullock) is a stalker, yet inexplicably, Hartman(Thomas Haden Church), a television reporter, encourages the crossword puzzle specialist to continue chasing Steve(Bradley Cooper), a cameraman, for no other reason but to further the plot. As it turns out, not only does Hartman give Mary directions to Silver Plume, he gives her directions to a Billy Wilder film. In the 1951 classic "Ace in the Hole", a former big city reporter(played by Kirk Douglas) augments the life of a story by convoluting the rescue procedure for a silver miner trapped under rubble. Likewise, in "All About Steve", after the "last" child is pulled out of an abandoned mine shaft, Hartman's designs to fabricate news(perhaps he was hoping that the woman would attack Steve) manifests itself in a totally unexpected way. Mary falls down the hole, therefore prolonging the story's newsworthiness, and it's here where the film's narrative about journalism supercedes its narrative about love. Since the cameraman knows Mary, Hartman has himself an exclusive(the same objective as Chuck Tatum, who makes the story his by bribing the sheriff); this ambition is the calliope music that fuels the media circus outside the tragedy in the making. All those hordes of onlookers is the key visual that links this film with "Ace in the Hole". Both men are willing to put their careers ahead of human life. (How the heck did Mary and all those deaf kids escape injury?) The film should really be entitled "All About Hartman", since Mary means nothing to Steve, contrary to the forced happy ending. Steve acts like he's the protagonist in Clint Eastwood's "Play Misty For Me". Expand
  27. DaneM
    Sep 6, 2009
    0
    Tasteless. I fell asleep.
  28. JasonD.
    Jan 12, 2010
    3
    Wasn't that great. Laughed @some parts but overall not very great. Hayden was funny but Sandra was a little too annoying.
  29. davidt.
    Nov 21, 2009
    4
    Yes, the character was annoying, but there were some laughs and I only spent $2 to watch it...so why not.
  30. KK
    Oct 17, 2009
    0
    Sandra Bullock has destroyed any good will she had developed from decades of light, but still enjoyable comedies with this disturbing, and unenjoyable disaster.
  31. RickA
    Oct 18, 2009
    3
    Not to impressed. Maybe with different casting the movie may have been better but because Sandra Bullock did not fit the part it was not that good. It seemed like she was trying to reach this eccentric person but I think she could not do the part justice. The rest of the cast seemed pretty good for the story. Oh well sometimes it works and some times it does not.
  32. MiKE
    Dec 23, 2009
    0
    Seems like the people behind the movie had such a good idea, But didnt work to the point where they just stuck a pointless 45 ending with the whole mine incident.
  33. ManusA
    Dec 30, 2009
    3
    WOW. This movie got a 17?! I didn't think it was TERRIBLE, but it could have been much, much better. Bullock and Cooper are not given time to develop their relationship, the characterizations were mean-spirited, over-the-top, and inconsistent with a side of offensive humor.
  34. Lauren
    Sep 18, 2009
    1
    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!
  35. AP
    Nov 29, 2009
    0
    I love Sandra Bullock, but this movie was just awful. Just embarrassingly awful! What was she thinking?
  36. Jan 5, 2011
    0
    I've seen a lot of movies in my time and I guess I tend to favour a good comedy, hey, I love the odd bad comedy, but this is neither, this is the movie equivalent of being bled out, I would rather swim in a pool of razor blades than watch this poor attempt at comedy again, truly terrible stuff
  37. Jan 11, 2012
    3
    I don't know where to start. I'm not sure what I just watched but I know I don't like the way I feel nor exactly how to describe it. A little disturbed perhaps....... discombobulated even (I've been wanting to use that for ages). Such a weird movie, I want to remove the memory of it from my brain and I never want to see red boots again. Although with the sound down she looked amazing in them. It's driven me to write this, my first review ever because of the profoundly diminishing effect it had on what should be my happy times. Thankfully it was on tv so it didn't cost me anything other than 90 minutes of my life damn it.

    I don't even really know who to blame, probably the screenwriter. Certainly not Sandra Bullock; unless I read the screenplay (I never will) I couldn't even judge whether her acting was deserving of the razzie as she may have actually performed an Oscar-worthy turn in this movie, more so than the Blind Side. You can't blame the casting agents- they've got some great talent in the film. Sandra Bullock's agent, however, should have talked her out of this one. Anyway Church was good, Cooper was not as good as usual and Jeung's brilliant comedic talent and timing was wasted in a pathetic sidekick role (to a secondary character) without any punchy lines or even sight gags- or maybe his shirt and tie was funny?

    The plot could have worked as you don't really need much of a plot for romcoms. For example (and i will sell this to the highest bidder) misfit meets completely unlikely partner, don't see eye to eye at first, become friends and start hanging out, one has a partner and some funny penis-size related gags occur, one falls for the other and declares undying love, uh-oh! non- reciprocated undying love awwwwww, can't be friends anymore because too embarrassed, non-reciprocator suddenly realises through a montage of slow- motion (seemingly innocuous at the time) experiences from throughout the movie (with greenday's time of your life in the background) that what they've been missing all their life was there right in front of them all that time so they should run to the rejected purveyor of undying love but what's this? It's too late, the embarrassed purveyor moved on with someone very lovely blah blah blah they break up and the original two get together in the unlikeliest of circumstances and probably finish the movie on a gag that leaves us laughing and feeling good as we walk out. 

    I did not have this feeling as the credits rolled on All About Steve and I think I have figured out the reason for this in the last couple of weeks as I can pick a stinker of a movie or two. Here is my theory- it is very hard to produce a great movie without a likable protagonist. Case in point, Against The Ropes (or something like that) starring Meg Ryan and Omar Epps. Both have had very good careers at certain stages and played some truly memorable roles that I unfortunately can't remember right now. Anyway, the fact that Meg Ryan's character was so imminently unlikeable in any way prevented me from wanting her to succeed or have anything but bad things happen to her. So with a plot that (employing more than a little license) told the real life story of a female boxing promoter, I found myself googling the plot halfway through the movie and hoping some misery would befall her to assuage my desire for her downfall. 

    Therein lies the problem with All About Steve. I didn't like any of the characters but most importantly I didn't like Mary **** she was annoying and paradoxically (but admittedly commonplace in the real world) both super-intelligent and a complete moron depending on what the particular scene called for. I wanted her to drown in that well and if I had anything to do with orchestrating the rescue she would still be down there now scratching crossword puzzles into the wall that would one day be unearthed and  revered by future generations as proof of higher intelligence amongst their cave-dwelling primate predecessors. the end.
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Metascore

Overwhelming dislike - based on 27 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 27
  2. Negative: 24 out of 27
  1. Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    20
    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?
  2. Reviewed by: Joanne Kaufman
    10
    A head-banging excuse for a comedy.
  3. 20
    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?