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Created May 22, 2010 11:05PM PST • Edited May 23, 2010 10:25AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Pretty Bad 1.5

   A marginal airplane movie, this by-the-numbers rom-com lacks charisma, character and comedy. Oh, there’s plenty of supposed laugh lines and even some slapstick. It’s just not funny. Some of the blame falls on Kristen Bell’s charmless leading lady, the rest on the witless team behind the camera.

4. Acting

   Barely OK 2.0

   Kristen Bell ain’t no Meg Ryan. Or Sandra Bullock. Or Reese Witherspoon. She’s a competent supporting player, as in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but that’s about it.

   Josh Duhamel was OK as her leading man, and may have a future as a leading man, but he’s not enough of a star to rescue a bad movie like this.

   The rest of the cast ranges from pretty bad to barely OK. Woof.

5. Male Stars OK 2.5

6. Female Stars Barely OK 2.0

7. Female Costars Pretty Bad 1.5

8. Male Costars Pretty Bad 1.5

10. Film

    Pretty Bad 1.5

    Director Mark Steven Johnson’s resume is heavy on action movies. Now that we’ve seen his dead-hand approach to rom-com, it’s clear why.

11. Direction Barely OK 2.0

12. Play Pretty Bad 1.5

13. Music Barely OK 2.0

14. Visuals Pretty Bad 1.5

    Gifted the Eternal City of Rome as a setting, the film merely waves at it out the window of a cab. What a waste.

15. Content

16. Edge

    Tame 1.3

17. Sex Innocent 1.5

18. Violence Gentle 1.2

19. Rudeness Polite 1.3

21. Reality

    Surreal 2.1

    Surreal? More like silly. Not that there’s anything wrong with surrealism in a rom-com if it triggers laughs and romance. But no laughs and flat romance make the surreal seem silly.

22. Circumstantial Surreal 2.2

23. Biological Supernatural 3.1

24. Physical Natural 1.0