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.

Some movies are too trite and contrived for me, its almost as if they are trying so hard to be likeable and cute that I almost end up despising them for it. Fever Pitch was that way for me, I mean it found its moments keying into the obsession that most men seem to find for a sports team (for me it’s the Denver Broncos) but lost its way with the love story. The movie falls into the predictability that plaques most romantic comedies as that they can never seem to find a way to get past what we are expecting and do something entirely different. You know the characters are going to end up together, you know that something, anything is going to keep them apart for a little while all the rest is just filler. Why not do something different, why go the route of cutesy instead of breaking new ground of your own. The movie has so much going for it as it finds a way to identify with us sports crazed males, why not do something different with the ending as well because two months from now there will be a movie exactly like this one released and Fever Pitch will be forgotten.

Drew Barrymore is falling into that trap where she is playing the same character over and over again but just revolving out the male lead. We saw it twice with Adam Sandler, we saw it with Ben Stiller and even David Arquette it is simply time for a new character. I am sure Barrymore is talented enough to do something different and more diverse I just wish she wouldn’t wait tell she was almost 40 and doing it to survive in Hollywood a little longer. Jimmy Fallon is cute, he is loveable heck at times he is even funny but he is so much better than these kinds of roles as he has shown on Saturday Night Live. The movie for the most part is cute, it is even funny at times but it is also very trite and entirely to contrived for me.
2.5 stars out of 5