DVD review: All About Steve

Eccentric cruciverbalist Mary Horowitz (Sandra Bullock) stalk a TV camera man.

This movie had been universaly panned by the critics, Sandra Bullock won the Razzie award for the worst actress, one day before winning the Oscar for the best actress thank to a role in a different movie, and even my beloved empire gave it only one star.

In my opinion they didn’t get it. They all lamented how annoying Bullock character is but that’s the whole point. Mary is the wacky sidekick that we see in every Rom Com promoted to a titular role. Moreover she is a nerd, I know that she doesn’t watch anime or use a computer obsessively but that is only the stereotypical description of a nerd while actually a lot of that stuff is actually going mainstream at the moment.

Mary is a nerd in the truer sense of the world. She is not very good with people, she is obsessive about her stuff, she cultivates strange interest and has a terrible fashion sense epitomized by her red boots. She is a nerd and she is supposed to be annoying just like the bearded guy from the hangover or Hugh Grant friend from “Notting Hill”. This is just the starting point but if we stuck with her till the end we see that she is actually not that bad and that a lot of her bad habits were only her attempts to be normal, to be accepted.

I really don’t understand how they could give Sandra Bullock the worst actress Razzie, which she actually accepted in person showing more sportsmanship that the majority of her colleagues. I think that she actually did a noteworthy job transforming herself into this hopeless nerd without resorting to ugly prosthesis or random disgusting acts, a la bearded guy from the hangover (Zach Galifianakis), and she still has the best comic timing in Hollywood.

Moreover this movie was actually funny. I know that this shouldn’t be noteworthy but after half a dozen Jennifer Aniston rom com where I didn’t even smile a fun dumb movie, because this is still a dumb movie even if it has a point, is like a breath of fresh air to a prisoner. It shouldn’t be that hard to write fun stuff but evidently too much of Hollywood recent output is written by a committee and therefore is as fun as actually going to a business meeting.