Being a Bullock's fan I decided to watch this movie on TV, despite the fact I knew she was assigned a Razzie for it. Turns out, it was well deserved.
Even if a comedy should not necessarily offer a realistic picture of the world we live in, it should at least be funny. Fun is in fact what comedies are for, despite – or thanks to – their surrealism.
In this respect, "All about Steve" is a complete flop, because it is completely unfunny. Bullock plays Mary, a dizzy crossword puzzler who meets the Steve of the title in a blind date and fells for him on the spot, trying to "rape" him in his car five minutes after they met.Steve is a cameraman for a news network and he is more than happy to run away from the disastrous "date rape" on an alleged assignment. The following day, Mary produces a crossword puzzle "all about Steve", gets fired and starts stalking Steve, convinced he is her true love because they spent ten minutes together.
After having pursued Steve across the US, Mary manages to get close to him during a reportage, but fells in a hidden mine shaft. A lengthy rescue wraps up the movie, as a totally incongruous third act. Happy ending of some sort ensues. The end. Not a single laugh throughout the whole running time.
In real life, anybody should rightly get seriously scared by being relentless stalked by somebody they met for a very short time. This is clearly not a comic situation. Even in an alleged comedy, where Mary is supposed to be an OTT eccentric who talks too much, but with some endearing qualities. Unfortunately, the Mary played by Bullock comes across as sex-starved, insufferable chatterbox with behavioural problems.
People like Mary are not funny; they might elicit fear, compassion or irritation, but hardly hilarity. Yet, for unknown reasons, we are supposed to like her and her stalking, perhaps in the name of the abused practice of "embracing odd characters and their eccentricities". Odd characters have been done much better many times before.
The rest of the cast is almost equally insufferable; special mention goes to the oddball guy who carves apples into little sculptures, which resemble the shrunken, dehydrated heads of enemies some Amazon tribes like to collect.
Even if a comedy should not necessarily offer a realistic picture of the world we live in, it should at least be funny. Fun is in fact what comedies are for, despite – or thanks to – their surrealism.
In this respect, "All about Steve" is a complete flop, because it is completely unfunny. Bullock plays Mary, a dizzy crossword puzzler who meets the Steve of the title in a blind date and fells for him on the spot, trying to "rape" him in his car five minutes after they met.Steve is a cameraman for a news network and he is more than happy to run away from the disastrous "date rape" on an alleged assignment. The following day, Mary produces a crossword puzzle "all about Steve", gets fired and starts stalking Steve, convinced he is her true love because they spent ten minutes together.
After having pursued Steve across the US, Mary manages to get close to him during a reportage, but fells in a hidden mine shaft. A lengthy rescue wraps up the movie, as a totally incongruous third act. Happy ending of some sort ensues. The end. Not a single laugh throughout the whole running time.
In real life, anybody should rightly get seriously scared by being relentless stalked by somebody they met for a very short time. This is clearly not a comic situation. Even in an alleged comedy, where Mary is supposed to be an OTT eccentric who talks too much, but with some endearing qualities. Unfortunately, the Mary played by Bullock comes across as sex-starved, insufferable chatterbox with behavioural problems.
People like Mary are not funny; they might elicit fear, compassion or irritation, but hardly hilarity. Yet, for unknown reasons, we are supposed to like her and her stalking, perhaps in the name of the abused practice of "embracing odd characters and their eccentricities". Odd characters have been done much better many times before.
The rest of the cast is almost equally insufferable; special mention goes to the oddball guy who carves apples into little sculptures, which resemble the shrunken, dehydrated heads of enemies some Amazon tribes like to collect.