This movie is deffinately a rental; not worth paying 8.50 admission plus gas and time, however for some easy night-time entertainment is worth checking out.
It is a romantic comedy starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Falon. Barrymore is an big-city business woman and Jimmy Falon is a school teacher. They meet when Jimmy brings a small group of his students to her business for a field trip. Barrymore, while at first apprehensive falls for Jimmy's funny nice-guy, even if he is just a 'school teacher' especially compared to the shallow men she meets in the business world. Everything seems perfect until the baseball season starts. Then the psycho red sox fan comes out.
You can pretty much predict the story line. Things go good at first, then there's a crisis in the relationship, but in the end they both end up realizing that they were each the best thing they had and suprise, suprise... end up together. Sorry if I ruined it for you, but I'm pretty sure you knew going in how it would end.
So the story line was a typical cliche'd hollywood romantic comedy, and Jimmy Falon's acting while improved over his no discipline cracking up-looking at the camera performances in SNL was stilted and forced. Despite all it flaws Fever Pitch still hit a few notes just right for me to be able to recomend it, and the notes it does hit all have to do with the illogical passion a logical person can have for something as trivial as a professional sports team. Something I can definately relate to. The agony, and ecstasy fantatical fans feel are illustrated perfectly, and humorously in this movie, and if you are a psycho fan, or know one, Fever Pitch can be appreciated for its perfect observations on that phenomenon.
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I haven't seen this yet but it was just hitting the theaters when I was in Boston for work. The general Boston buzz was pretty high because it was a movie about their "Saaux".
ReplyDeleteGreen Bay has some of the most intense fans in the world but this was the first time I have ever seen that same passion for baseball. It was almost rediculous how much Sox apperal I saw on the general population. I wonder if that carried over to box office sales in Beantown.