In a moment of desperation, a friend asked me to go to the cinema with her last Friday night and there was nothing on at a decent time apart from All About Steve. I hadn’t heard or seen anything of it and she hadn’t either but Sandra Bullock was in it, so how bad could it be, right? Wrong. All About Steve is the worst film I have ever seen Sandra Bullock in. I’m still shocked that she made it. I possibly should have remembered reading Nialls short synopsis at the end of this post but it had slipped from my mind.
Mary Horowitz (Bullock) is an eccentric and strange young woman who sets crosswords for a living. She loves facts and information to the point that she can barely keep herself from talking non-stop about everything and anything. Her parents set her up on a blind date with their friends son Steve (played by Bradley Cooper) and it all goes pear-shaped from there. Mary is convinced, in her naivity, that Steve is the one for her and that he feels the same. He is part of a travelling news team for CCN and she follows him from disaster to disaster across the country.
Although All About Steve has some laughs in it, they are not clever or inspired. We found ourselves laughing at the sheer stupidity and absurdity of the movie. I didn’t find Bullock believable plaing Mary either. The last movie I saw her in was The Proposal where she was playing a forty something woman suddenly in a rush to get married and choosing her younger assistant. To go from that kind of character back to naive, sweet, innocent girl just didn’t really work for me. All About Steve passed a couple of hours but given the choice again, I’d have chosen to see something else. Definitely not worth the shocking €10.60 it now costs to go to Vue in Liffey Valley.
Sounds about right. Poor old Sandra Bullock, An Oscar and Razzie nomination in the same year!