All About Steve

Apologies first of all for the delay between posts and also the shocking grammar and punctuation in my last entry. It was written with some haste during a spare ten minutes at work.
I've watched no less than four new movies since last posting and the first is the infamous Sandra Bullock vehicle All About Steve. Every so often a film will come along with such scathing reviews that it becomes more of a curiosity than anything else. All About Steve is one of those films, being nominated for several Razzie awards and being on some critics Worst Films of the Year lists. I normally resist the temptation to watch a badly reviewed film because I'm not some sort of sadist and watching some films is akin to torture. Saying that, I have seen the likes of Basic Instinct, Body of Evidence, Striptease and Showgirls, but you try telling a 14 year old boy with a fully functioning penis that they aren't stonewall classics.
The reason I made the exception for All About Steve is for the triumvirate of Bradley Cooper, Thomas Haden Church and Ken Jeong as the titular Steve the Cameraman, the arrogant news reporter and the put upon director respectively. At first I wasn't a big fan of Bradley Cooper after seeing him play the character of Sack in Wedding Crashers, but after seeing him follow that up with films like Yes Man and The Hangover, it was clear it was just a perfectly judged performance. With Thomas Haden Church, i've followed his career from Ned and Stacey, the Charlie Kaufman scripted 90s sitcom, through George of The Jungle to his Oscar nominated turn in Sideways, so its disappointing to see such a brilliant comedy actor being wasted on Spiderman 3 and guff like this. And it goes without saying that Ken Jeong frequently steals the show being the best thing about Role Models and The Hangover when he appears on screen.
It goes without saying that you get exactly what is ecpected from the reviews with this movie. From the grating OTT performance of Bullock (who made history with All About Steve and The Blind Side, becoming the first person to pick up a Razzie award and an Oscar in the same year) to the stumbling and incoherent script in which people forge heart warming bonds based on one short car journey or where its okay to refer to a small hearing impaired child as "little deaf girl". My advice would be to not waste your time with this and perhaps read a book or go for a walk. Go on, its good for you.
A generous one star *