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...title suggests, the movie follows the underachieving, scrawny, self-conscious Kirk as he dates Molly (Alice Eve) who is everything he is not: successful, beautiful, and confident. Kirk skipped college; Molly has a law degree. Kirk comes from a working-class family; Molly’s background is more affluent...
...some reason Kirk and his friends cannot figure out, Molly likes him. She asks him on several dates, but neither he nor his friends believe that she could be romantically interested in him. Not even her ex-boyfriend, handsome hockey star Cam (Geoff Stults), even considers the possibility that Kirk is a competitor—he even confuses Kirk for a waiter when he runs into Molly and Kirk at a restaurant. Kirk’s self-confidence issues lead him to drive her away, but not before subjecting himself (and the audience) to a series of almost unbearably awkward...
...evident in the first scene, the film works well with its setting, using location to spark ironically amusing dialogue. The airport, where Kirk works as a TSA agent along with his friends, provides a humorous backdrop for their conversations about Kirk’s relationship with Molly; instead of moving the lines through his security check, as a TSA agent, Kirk spends much of his time at work chatting—offering an explanation as to why airport security lines are so long. In another scene, Kirk and his friends go around on an empty baggage carousel as they discuss...
...most part, however, the movie is more uncomfortable than funny, though perhaps not in the way that the filmmakers intended. Cringing feels more appropriate than laughing when Kirk makes a fool of himself in front of Molly’s parents, or when he allows Devon to shave his testicles. The entire film circles around this urge to thrust Kirk into as many awkward situations as possible—which is funny at times, but mostly falls flat. With this goal at its center, the film lacks a cohesiveness which makes the ending seem rather like a hasty attempt...
...film tells the story of a geeky, goofy airport security guard named Kirk (Jay Baruchel) who meets and ends up dating a drop-dead gorgeous party-planner (Eve) who comes through his airport. Everyone around them tells them that it can’t work, because while Kirk is a “5” on the hotness-scale, Molly is a “10,” and two people of such diverging attractiveness could never make it work. Ritter plays Eve’s straight-talking, hostile best friend who is opposed to the relationship from...