It's Pine that keeps the whole thing afloat, and he manages, astonishingly, to make even the clunkiest, cheesiest lines work, almost transforming the film's chocolate-box sentiments into something honest.
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Blind Dating (2007)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:6
Rotten:17
Average Rating:4.3/10
Theatrical Release:May 11, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $61,877
Synopsis: BLIND DATING is a hilarious comedy about Danny (Chris Pine), an intelligent, confident, handsome young man who also happens to be blind. Not that he's letting that hold him back-for the most part,... [More]
Starring: Chris Pine, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Jane Seymour, Anjali Jay
Director: James Keach
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Reviews for Blind Dating
The standard of acting and directing is at a very low ebb.
09/18/09
mixes too many issues
08/18/08
This film wavers between a sweet rom-com, a gross-out romp and a drama about diversity. Thanks to a strong cast, these three elements work on their own, but struggle to make much sense together.
09/17/09
A forgettable slice of hackneyed romance.
02/17/08
An inoffensively bland piece of rom-com fluff.
09/18/09
The fact that Blind Dating provides a relationship between two characters whom the audience desperately wants to see wind up together is ultimately all that matters.
05/11/07
Pleasant but forgettable, it’s destined to end up as little more than a minor footnote on Pine’s megastar CV.
09/18/09
An uneven mixture of crude high jinks and sweet romance, this just about makes the grade thanks to its breezy geniality and Pine’s charismatic performance as Danny.
09/18/09
The whole thing ends with a jolly multicultural dance montage so gruesome that temporary blindness would be a blessed relief.
09/18/09
Christopher Theo's script aims for American Pie raunch, which doesn't work in a watered-down PG-13 form.
05/11/07
The chemistry between Leeza and Danny is the only saving grace of this messy film. It's almost as if the writers couldn't stand to just watch them sweetly fall in love.
05/10/07
Top CriticSmall wonder this hard-to-swallow cocktail of bawdy comedy, cross-cultural romance and issue-of-the-week melodrama was left on the shelf for three years. The marketing people can’t have had a clue what to do with it.
09/18/09
I wouldn't even describe what Dating becomes as ambitious. It's just sloppy, and corrupts the comfortable level of mediocrity it made peace with early on.
05/10/07
While Pine is superb in the lead role, almost everything else fails to convince in this vastly uneven, unfunny and only sporadically dramatic enterprise.
09/18/09
Blind Dating also manages to be an incredibly muddled 95 minutes in which emotions are replaced by aggressive music cues to force the viewer to care for characters that are paper thin at best.
09/18/09
A bad idea poorly executed...unfortunately, Blind Dating doesn't deserve to be seen.
05/05/07
Blind Dating is a flawed but essentially likeable romantic comedy that succeeds thanks to a charming performance by rising star Chris Pine.
09/18/09
There's actually a sweet little romantic comedy at the core of Blind Dating, fighting its way to get out of the cruder, crasser outer shell.
05/10/07
It's not preachy or weepy. Instead, it's a lively yet meaningful romantic comedy that doesn't lose sight of its central mission: to entertain.
05/11/07
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