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...She’s Out of My League” opens with a close-up of Kirk Kettner’s (Jay Baruchel) face as he delivers a well-rehearsed speech to try to get his girlfriend back. As he speaks, the camera pans out to reveal a beautiful backdrop of a green meadow surrounded by trees, adding a certain amount of potence to Kirk’s otherwise pathetic speech. However, as the camera continues to pull back, it becomes evident that Kirk is not in some idyllic mountain location, but is instead simply sitting in front...
...director (Steve Coogan) decides to go for that verismo vibe: they'll finish the film with no crew around, only hidden cameras and surprise explosions. But a couple of things go wrong, and the stars, plus rapper-actor Chino (Brandon T. Jackson) and tyro talent Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel), wander into a real war with actual bad guys and live ammunition. Art meets life; schlock faces imminent death...
...UNDECLARED (FOX) The characters are freshmen, but the comedy is far from sophomoric. Producer Judd Apatow (of the much mourned high-school drama Freaks and Geeks) got a well-deserved, and more commercial, second chance with this college sitcom. Undeclared, starring Jay Baruchel, above, takes the eccentric sensibility of Freaks and applies it to smart, sharply observed coming-of-age stories of self-discovery, romance and beer...