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Sandra Bullock plays Mary Horowitz a crossword creator for a Sacramento newspaper. It’s not a full-time gig. She creates one puzzle a week and still lives with her parents. Her parents just want their daughter to be happy so like lots of parents they set her up on a blind date with a friend’s son. Mary’s date is Steve, a cameraman for a national news network. The date starts out weird and after Mary freaks out Steve, he gets a call for a job and he gets to cut the date short.  He thanks the powers that be that he gets to escape the crazy date… except he doesn’t. Mary starts to follow him around the country trying to be the woman in his life.

The story had a lot of potential for a funny movie but there weren't enough laughs in the script. The jokes were either too dry or too unconceivable to laugh at. There was potential here for some seriously funny stuff that never came into play. Sandra Bullock’s character needed to walk the line of stalker and genuinely caring a little more than the script allowed her too. Everything is over-exaggerated too. Let’s face it- maybe Steve had a right to get freaked out by Mary… but not that much. It just didn’t make sense.

The other problem is genuinely Mary. She’s too out of place with reality. She’s a crossword puzzle creator. Really? Does anybody under 35 do crosswords anymore? There are other unorthodox jobs that could have chosen for Mary to do that are more in touch with today’s society.

The bright spot in the movie is Thomas Haden Church. He is hilarious as newscaster Hartman Hughes and when he and Cooper are on the screen together giving each other hell and feeding off of each other it’s hilarious. I would want to see a movie more along the lines of that idea rather than a struggling crossword puzzle creator trying to find love.
There are several good bonus features on this disc. I will give it that. There are a few extended scenes and a funny gag real. The featurette on the movie is entertaining and Cooper and Jeong’s duet is hilarious. You also get a digital copy of the movie with the Blu-Ray and that’s one of my favorite things that are being packaged with Blu-ray.

There were high hopes for this movie and there should have been. It had the potential to be very funny, it just wasn’t executed well. Somebody should have tweaked the script and fixed  the middle of the movie and Mary’s descriptive traits. That was ultimately the demise of the movie. All About Steve isn’t terrible, it’s just disappointing because it could have been great... instead it’s just okay.