This month Sandra Bullock admitted that the success of The Proposal and The Blind Side (for which she’s being talked up for an Oscar) was “unplanned and unexpected”. You’re inclined to believe her, as there’s no way anyone feeling bullish about her future would sign up for All About Steve, one of the ropiest would-be screwball comedies conceived recently.
Bullock plays Mary Horowitz, a gawky, sex-starved crossword creator who falls too hard for Steve (Bradley Cooper), a news cameraman, after some heavy blind- date petting. So she pursues him across America. She is beyond irritating — a walking dictionary caked in kooky make-up — and he has a gutless haircut, so ultimately you don’t really care what happens to either of them: whether they eventually end up together, learn moral lessons about not changing who you are to fit in, or even just do something funny, which they don’t.