Movie Review for Fever Pitch

Summary: High-school teacher Ben Wrightman is a good catch. He's charming, funny and great with kids. When he meets Lindsey Meeks, an ambitious business consultant whose spirit is as luminous as her beauty, their attraction is immediate. Sure, they have their differences. She's a workaholic; he loves his summers off. He lives and breathes the Red Sox; she doesn't know Carl Yastrzemski from Johnny Damon. But true love overcomes all--at least until Red Sox spring training rolls around. As Ben's beloved Bosox launch one of the most incredible seasons in baseball history, Ben and Lindsey must decide if they, as a couple, will strike out or fight to keep love alive through extra innings.

                         Reviews of Fever Pitch
By Lori Hoffman of Atlantic City Weekly (6/1)
            The baseball nuts in supporting roles add enough color to obtain a thumbs up from this longtime a...

By Marc Savlov of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
            Ultimately, it’s a bore.

By Emily Blunt of Blunt Review (7/0)
            What an adorable, genuinely funny and romantic, delightfully twisted ditty!

By Wesley Morris of Boston Globe (7/0)
            This is the first [Farrelly brothers] movie...where all the characters seem like people rather th...

By Stephen Humphries of Christian Science Monitor (7/0)
            The film centers on someone obsessed with a sports team, but the story's universality lies in the...

By Mary Lasse of Christianity Today (7/0)
            For a light-hearted romantic comedy, there are a number of genuinely touching moments of love.

                         Reviews of Fever Pitch
By Joshua Tyler of CinemaBlend.com (7/0)
            It feels like a movie that ought to star Adam Sandler, but makes do with Taxi’s metrosexual Jimmy...

By Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (6/1)
            The Farrellys transform romantic formula into understanding.

By Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
            The oddest thing of all is that, despite this bizarre mix of chefs, Fever Pitch actually works.

By Edward Douglas of ComingSoon.net (7/0)
            Neither the cleverness of Hornby's source material nor the easy Farrelly laughs...safe but ultima...

By Matt Brunson of Creative Loafing (7/0)
            In [the Farrelly Brothers'] better movies ... there exists a sweetness that belies the barfs, and...

By Norm Schrager of E! Online (7/0)
            ...beyond a clichĂ©d intro and some minor gaps here and there, it all works pretty darned well.

                         Reviews of Fever Pitch
By Erik Childress of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            Fever Pitch relaxes too much at the plate, fouling off (and shaving) too many balls to get us pum...

By Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com (7/0)
            The movie -- often amusing, occasionally funny -- rides on their friendly shoulders well enough t...

By Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central (7/0)
            Think of Fever Pitch as the phone booth--though the Kryptonite could be any combination of Ganz &...

By Pete Vonder Haar of Film Threat (7/0)
            Anyone familiar with the conventions of the rom-com genre knows how all this is going to turn out...

By Victoria Alexander of FilmsInReview.com (7/0)
            Obsessed fans, you’ve won no converts.

By Ross Anthony of Hollywood Report Card (7/0)
            Pleasant enough, yet it seldom sparks hearty laughter or tugs too strongly on a heartstring.

                         Reviews of Fever Pitch
By Michael Rechtshaffen of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
            ...a halfhearted bunt rather than a solid line drive.

By David Kaplan of Kaplan vs. Kaplan (7/0)
            There is a sweet believability among Ben and his cohorts, as they divvy up the season tickets,inh...

By Linda Cook of KWQC-TV (Iowa) (7/0)
            "Fever Pitch" is a room-temperature movie.

By Rene Rodriguez of Miami Herald (7/0)
            The only thing the Farrellys get right is the obsession, but even the most forgiving Red Sox fan ...

By Susan Granger of Modamag.com (6/1)
            A dandy, heart-warming, fun-filled date movie - corny but charming.

By Kevin N. Laforest of Montreal Film Journal (7/0)
            Still, as mediocre as Barrymore and Fallon are in this movie, we wind up liking them anyway and r...

                         Reviews of Fever Pitch
By Frank Ochieng of Movie Eye (6/1)
            The Farrelly Brothers step up to the batter’s box with cockeyed confidence looking to take a quir...

By Marty Mapes of Movie Habit (7/0)
            An enjoyable romantic comedy, and not much more

By Nell Minow of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (7/0)
            The Hollywood studio de-flavorizing machine has toned the Farrellys down and flattened them out a...

By Kurt Loder of MTV (7/0)
            [A] near-perfect romantic comedy, and the elegance with which it's been constructed is a beautifu...

By Sean Burns of Philadelphia Weekly (7/0)
            Boilerplate rom-com autopilot. Mealy-mouthed Fallon could've been a Trekkie or a member of the K...

By James Kendrick of Q Network Film Desk (7/0)
            it works because, despite being immensely enjoyable as a romantic comedy, it cuts deep to the hea...

                         Reviews of Fever Pitch
By David N. Butterworth of rec.arts.movies.reviews (7/0)
            Subtlety and sensitivity are not words one equates with the Farrelly Bros. but they're deployed i...

By Sarah Chauncey of Reel.com (7/0)
            What a pleasant surprise to find that, while far from perfect, this movie is endearing and engagi...

By Laura Clifford of Reeling Reviews (7/0)
            Fallon's a second stringer to Barrymore's big leagues, but "Fever Pitch" is still a winner

By Robin Clifford of Reeling Reviews (7/0)
            The love story is a true microcosm of the emotional rise and fall the Red Sox fans have felt ever...

By Peter Travers of Rolling Stone (7/0)
            Swung at and missed.

By Larry Ratliff of San Antonio Express-News (7/0)
            This is the kind of smart, embraceable romantic comedy Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn might hav...

                         Reviews of Fever Pitch
By Mick LaSalle of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
            ...for all its promise, is nothing but routine, a showcase for a couple of attractive actors who ...

By Sean McBride of Sean the Movie Guy (6/1)
            Hornby’s tale of sports obsession has become yet another generic romantic comedy.

By William Arnold of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
            ...a moderately enjoyable romantic comedy that does its job as a date movie, but is so innocuous,...

By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat of Spirituality and Practice (7/0)
            A light-hearted romantic comedy about a young couple trying to sort out their priorities about lo...

By Rob Blackwelder of SPLICEDWire (7/0)
            ...gets by on the same kind of lovable-loser charm that has kept its main character obsessed with...

By Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone of TheMovieChicks.com (7/0)
            The baseball fan in me was let down... and I wanted a better, funnier, love story. In other words...

                         Reviews of Fever Pitch
By Tony Medley of tonymedley.com (7/0)
            Formulaic attempt at romantic comedy. Fallon and his fellow Red Sox fans are dumber and more unre...

By John A. Nesbit of ToxicUniverse.com (7/0)
            new wrinkle for the Farrelly brothers that baseball fans and couples can relate to

By Mike Clark of USA Today (7/0)
            ...falls short of lukewarm, but on the subject of men and women, it's on to something.

By Manohla Dargis of New York Times (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
            ...thoroughly winning if not especially good...

By Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi of Broomfield Enterprise (3/4) No reference
            Even with all the baseball, there's no denying this movie is a chick flick.

By Allison Benedikt of Chicago Tribune (3/4) No reference
            ...a natural and heartfelt screen romance...

                         Reviews of Fever Pitch
By Jeffrey Bruner of Des Moines Register (3/4) No reference
            Fever Pitch is lovable enough that it legs out an infield single almost in spite of its two leads...

By Donald Munro of Fresno Bee (3/4) No reference
            Never gets much higher than an average 98.6 degrees.

By Kit Bowen of Hollywood.com (3/4) No reference
            They can do it. Peter and Bobby Farrelly can actually make a movie that doesn't include one fart ...

By Ward Triplett III of Kansas City Star (3/4) No reference
            Sometimes hitters can get caught just looking at that curve fall in for a strike, and all they ca...

By Glenn Whipp of Los Angeles Daily News (3/4) No reference
            The Farrellys, good New England boys that they are, revel in the baseball minutiae, right down to...

By Lou Lumenick of New York Post (3/4) No reference
            ...an Adam Sandler movie without Adam Sandler...

                         Reviews of Fever Pitch
By Gary Thompson of Philadelphia Daily News (3/4) No reference
            What the movie has, besides an amusing grasp of baseball fanaticism, is the Farrellys' rare and i...

By James Berardinelli of ReelViews (3/4) No reference
            ...a curious mix of smarts and schmaltz.

By Phoebe Flowers of South Florida Sun-Sentinel (3/4) No reference
            Even their antiseptic laugh-o-meter approach to screenwriting cannot completely wring the sinceri...

By Angela Baldassarre of Sympatico.ca (3/4) No reference
             Charming and entertaining thanks to a surprisingly endearing performance by Jimmy Fallon.

By Bob Townsend of Atlanta Journal-Constitution (4/3) Not Reachable
            ...frequently amusing and awfully sweet...

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