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Hollywood loves male fantasy pairings. Here are 10 favorites in which she is definitely out of his league

By Glenn Whipp
Special to MSN Movies

In "She's Out of My League," Jay Baruchel plays an average guy with a boring job who somehow lands a beautiful babe as a girlfriend. No one ... more can believe it, which, needless to say, puts something of a damper on his confidence level. Maybe Baruchel can call his "Knocked Up" roommate Seth Rogen for some romantic advice.

On the surface, "She's Out of My League" seems to be a direct answer to those critics who thought that those Judd Apatow-brand movies like "Knocked Up" and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" were nothing but wish-fulfillment fantasies for out-of-shape, emotionally stunted man-children.

We're not those critics. We like Rogen and Jason Segel just fine and think that any movie woman would be lucky to find comfort in the warmth of their lumbering frames. They might be living in a cardboard box within a year, but they'd still be smiling because, after all, laughter is the language of the soul. And these guys speak it fluently.

No, when we hear Joe Jackson sing "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" we think not of members of the Apatow gang but the following movie couples in which the woman clearly could do a whole lot better.