I feel compelled to write a review after reading some reviews that stated that this film could never happen in real life. This film is pretty much my life story. Kirk is an average looking guy who works at TSA at the airport. He meets Molly who is a beautiful lawyer who chooses to be a caterer. Twenty years ago, while working as a public defender I met the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. Blonde hair and blue eyes, the whole package. She was clearly a" hard 10", and I was seriously a" soft 6". Worse she was 25 and I was 42. She worked in catering, although today she works at TSA. She asked me out several times, just like Molly asked out Kirk. Like Kirk I did not believe this was a relationship, or if it was a relationship, it was not going to last. Like Kirk's co-workers they questioned her motives and the reality of him dating an amazing woman. One of my co-workers said, "I am no where near as pretty as her, and I would never go out with you." Ouch! I got the nickname of "Carlo Ponti". If you do not know who Carlo Ponti was, look him up on the IMDB. When we went places together, my friends would ask "Why is she here?" Other men would hit on her, while we were holding hands! So many scenes are reminiscent of my courtship with this awesome woman. Especially the scene where Kirk takes Molly home to meet his father. My father just blurted out, "She's so beautiful!". I empathize what Kirk was going through as the insecurity was over-whelming. So twenty years later, we're still together. So I give this movie a 9. I do not give out "9s" lightly. I give it a 9 for realism. Ha! This is an above average rom-com. If they would have asked me I could have given them a lot of ideas. Being average and dating beauty is a real challenge. I do have some criticisms: The point of the movie is that Alice Eve is such a rare beauty that it creates problems for a regular guy. There is a scene at the Hockey game where Kirk believes that Molly is setting him up with her girlfriend, played by Kristen Ritter. Kirk can't believe Molly is interested in him, but he's Ok with Kristen Ritter? Ritter is a hard 10 as well. I love Ritter but casting an equally attractive woman ruins that scene and undermines the plot. Even worse Lindsey Sloane is cast as Kirk's ex-girlfriend and the plot is she is supposed to be so unattractive that the idea that she is not wearing underwear is cause for guys to lose their appetite. But Sloane is attractive, maybe not a 10, but the actress would turn heads in any bar in America. The casting director is afraid to cast average looking women even when that is what the plot calls for. This is a common problem in light comedies. The casting director wants to attract fans with an array of eye candy. But this works against the plot. How many times have you seen the "nerd character" played by a stud?

Kirk (Jay Baruchel) is a geeky TSA agent working security at the Pittsburgh airport with his wacky friends. He's still under the thumb of his ex Marnie (Lindsay Sloane). Then he meet super hot Molly (Alice Eve). They start dating after he returns her phone, and nobody can figure out what she sees in him.There's no doubt that Alice Eve is super hot, and Jay Baruchel is a cute charming geeky nice guy. It's actually a pretty simple rom-com with likable people. I like the friends even more. T.J. Miller and Nate Torrence are especially hilarious. The constant referencing of the mismatch is actually more of a hindrance to a simple rom-com.

When 'She's Out of My League' was released, I had never heard of it. In fact I only heard about it three years later when I saw the first 10 minutes on TV. After that 10 minutes, I was interested so I bought the DVD primarily because I dislike not seeing movie endings, and was very pleasantly surprised at the outcome.I thought 'She's Out of My League' was excellent. For a movie that has taken so many used ideas, it manages to blend everything together perfectly into a semi-crude but always cheerful romantic comedy about a regular Joe named Kirk and his struggles when he meets and dates Molly, a girl who is seemingly way higher up than he on almost every scale.I think the main strength of this movie was the characters - prior to seeing it, I'd never heard of any of them, nor seen any movies they'd been in, and I was able to get into the story much better than had it been filled with Hollywood A-listers. The writing was sound, though the ideas were all very formulaic and horribly predictable, however in the end I found that it didn't matter anyway. The withdrawn and kind nature of Kirk, combined with the idiocy (and loyalty) of his mismatched group of friends meant that I couldn't help but love the transition Kirk made from bumbling loser to confident boyfriend of a woman likely to be the hottest girl in the city.Some people seemed to have issues with the vulgar nature of some of the movie, though personally I didn't. I thought most scenes were very funny, and though swearing occurs here and there I thought that most of the comedic scenes were clever enough in construction that they didn't actively detract from the love story going on around them.All in all I was very surprised after watching this movie. I expected that it might be another average romantic comedy that I'd watch a couple of times and then it would wear off, but instead this movie is full of emotion and offers a lot of heart and feeling, something sorely missing in many other films. I'll also specially mention the soundtrack which I personally consider to be one of the best I've heard to date (well, using songs that weren't made for the movie). Yes, the airport scene at the end is horribly cliché, but I can't help but smile every time I hear the opening guitar of Jet's 'Cold Hard B****' as Molly goes chasing after Kirk. Great Stuff.

This was a good example of how fun a "formula movie" can be. It was a movie of how a guy goes after a hot girl, and his social inadequacies (which he is very aware of) get in the way. He can't compare himself to her, because he's still so awkward and working in a crappy airline security job (still feeling at the junior high geek stage), and she's this gorgeous girl. He keeps making the "5" to a "10" comparisons. She tries to be good to him. You know what's going to happen and how it's all going to turn out, but it's all fun and hilarious getting there.This is more about the guy getting the girl. It is about self esteem and trying to ask the girl out. This movie, when you look at the cover box and write-up, might seem like a raunchy comedy (which I'm certain was intentional), but it was much tamer than that. Don't expect to see something like Knocked Up or The 40-Year-Old Virgin. This was a terrific movie.*** out of ****