All About Steve - 2009 * * *

For god's sake stop tanning! You look like an orange with lips!

I'm not a huge fan of Sandra Bullock's quirky, ditzy roles and feel that this one didn't really do her justice because all in all she is a good actress. Her role as Mary, who spends her life designing crosswords for the local paper and as a result doesn't earn enough to move out of her parent's house doesn't really fit with her more gutzy roles in other films. There is a difference in acting as a character who is funny and who is ditzy, and strangely enough although her character is extremely intelligent she comes across as slightly mental ( her character reminds me of Poppy in Happy Go-Lucky who goes through life never feeling depressed or affected by anything) and amazingly hyper. When she meets Steve, a bloke her parents set her up with she finds herself falling for him in more ways than one.

The film had a few laughs in it but altogether her character was far too annoying for me to find any sort of empathy with.