After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.
How do you know if a romantic comedy isn't working? Generally if it's neither especially romantic, nor particularly comic. And in this picture, no matter how many times he keeps coming up to bat, Brooks keeps striking out.
– Stephen Whitty,
Newark Star-Ledger,
17 Dec 2010
fresh:
Brooks has given us the rare contemporary rom-com that's by turns (if intermittently) thoughtful and funny, and that doesn't feel focus-grouped, cynical, misogynist, or mean. It seems ungenerous not to cut such a generous movie a break.
– Dana Stevens,
Slate,
17 Dec 2010
rotten:
Everything looks primed for civilized amusement, but somewhere along the way the laughs dropped off, together with the question mark in the title.
– Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
28 Dec 2010
rotten:
Contrived, mawkish and mirthless, this feels like it was made by people who haven't had any meaningful human contact for years.
– David Jenkins,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2011
fresh:
Some of the bits are funny, every now and then they're sweet, the performances are OK and really, with this much talent involved, it's hard not to be disappointed in that.