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From The New Yorker

A conventional Farrelly-brothers comedy that plugs into something curious along the way. Jimmy Fallon plays a joke-happy Boston schoolteacher who successfully woos Drew Barrymore's high-flying corporate consultant, only to lose her to his obsession with the Boston Red Sox. The teacher's house, down to the Yankee toilet paper, is a Sox mausoleum; he spends his summers in a box seat passed down by his uncle, surrounded by fans who have been muttering the same curses and masochistic riffs for decades. The Sox fans are like peasants in a defeated province; they revile their conquerors and revile themselves almost as much for being defeated. The filmmakers are split between making the Sox obsession a lovably funny quirk and suggesting that it's haplessly infantile. Plotted against the 2004 season, the movie ends with the team's surprise World Series victory. One doesn't expect a sequel in which Sox fans have come down from the grandeur of endless defeat and are forced to confront the banality of success. -
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

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3.0 out of 5 stars A base hit, not a Grand Slam, October 26, 2005

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This review is from: Fever Pitch (VHS Tape)

Fever Pitch is an okay Romantic Comedy. It suffers from being as formulaic and predictable as a batting lineup. It has some charm but no feverish chemistry. Ben and Lindsey have their ups and downs and ambivalence for each other. Ben is truly obsessed with his team, the Red Sox, and not only does he expect Lindsey to tolerate his obsession but also to participate in it. Lindsey is willing to accommodate for the sake of love, but rather unromantically, we never see Ben accommodate Lindsey. As Romantic Comedies go, this one isn't so romantic or so funny. I'm not even sure a Red Sox fan would like it.