She’s out of my league.

Or is she? Centering around the relationship of Kirk (Jay Baruchel), a nerdy Philadelphia transportation security guard and Molly (Alive Eve), a blonde head-turner who passes through Kirk’s checkout line. “She’s Out of My League” gives hope to all disgruntled average-Joe’s and shows that even a “perfect 10” can fall for a moderately attractive five.

Kirk is still in the dumps about his recent breakup with Marnie (Lindsay Sloane), who still lives with Kirk and his parents (Debra Jo Rupp, Adam LeFevre), when she brings her new boyfriend (Hayes MacArthur) to live with them too.

Coming from a Midwestern trailer trash family, Kirk grew up rejected between two un-married, cradle-robbing, egotistical idiots of brothers who always beat him up. His friends even call him a “moodle,” or man-poodle, incapable of ever getting with a girl. Then, one day at the airport, his luck changes.

In their meet-cute, Molly accidentally leaves her cell phone in one of the security bins and realizes her mistake on the plane. Using her best friend, and event-planning partner, Patty’s (the hysterical Krysten Ritter) phone, Molly calls her phone and Kirk answers.

Returning to Pittsburgh the next day for work, Molly picks up her phone and invites Kirk and a friend to a hockey game to thank him for holding onto it. Kirk is shocked when he realizes he’s been asked out by a beautiful, smart, albeit obnoxiously perfect, girl like Molly.

His dry, dorky humorous side comes out and Molly loves it.

However, Kirk is still in disbelief that a girl as pretty as her would even consider dating a guy like him. When one of the players on the hockey team gets slammed up against the glass, he even looks at Molly and says “Hey.”

Yes, this girl is so out of Kirk’s league and it’s hysterical to watch his pathetic demise as he continuously realizes that he’s not good enough for her.

Director Jim Field Smith even drives the point home so much so, that on their first one-on-one date at a French restaurant, Kirk wears the same red blazer as the waiters.  He is mistaken as one by several diners, including Molly’s hunk of an ex, Cam (Geoff Stults).

Kirk receives another stinger when he returns a sweater to a woman that left it behind. He even gets a tip; yet another stinger.

Besides these hilariously scripted moments, “She’s Out of My League” still follows the stages of any beginning relationship from meeting parents to ‘the first time,’ and makes them all comical, leaving the audience with a savory taste about their own first experiences in their relationships. 

Things are pretty much smooth sailing for Molly and Kirk after the awkwardness in the French restaurant and it’s clear that she is infatuated with his unique charm compared to her shallow exes.

However, Kirk has a slight malfunction when he meets her parents, he embarrasses himself. Molly decides she wants nothing to do with him after he calls her about 20 times in an hour. Relinquishing all hope and realizing he’s lost the only good thing that’s ever happened to him, Kirk goes running back to Marnie, who by now wants him because she saw him with Molly.

Kirk’s hilarious bonehead friends and co-workers decide to convince Kirk not to settle for Marnie when he could fight to get Molly back; which is exactly what he does at the end of the film.

Showing her his true, imperfect self and truthfully explaining what went wrong when he met her parents creates the full-circle happy ending in romantic comedies that makes them worth watching.

And the fact that the 10 ended up with a five ends the hilarity of the film with a sweet disposition that anything can happen.