Okay, I officially have a Failure to Launch obsession. Courtesy of the nice people at Paramount, I was able to see the ultimate date/family/comedy flick last night and I give it 4 and 1/2 out of 5 stars. The premise of the film (the parents hire a woman to fall in love with their son to get him out of the house) worked really well. There was enough character development to make the whole story line extremely plausible. Also, the director Tom Dey really knows his stuff. Nothing fell flat and the film was extremely funny! And the writers seemed to be really aware of the whole Boomeranging trend. It looked like they had their facts down and presented both sides of the equation without every stereotyping. Good job!
There's just not enough to say about Matthew. He is hysterical in the film, and has a charm that we've rarely seen in other films, almost a vulnerability. I think that's because many of us have a hard time believing that someone as hot, funny, and cool as him would have any problems, but in this film, you really believe it -- if only for a second. Sarah Jessica was okay. Her face just doesn't convey warm gooey feelings really well. But Zooey Deshanel almost stole the whole film. Her dry delivery and story line was reason enough to see it. Anyway, I think the audience really enjoyed themselves. Although I heard one woman in her 50s say to her husband, "This wasn't on the level of Wedding Crashers." It's amazing. Now everyone expects every film to be a gross out, guy comedy, but the reason I loved this one is because it reminded me of all those '80s high concept romantic comedies that actually had a soul, see Protocol, Working Girl, Splash, etc.
Failure to Launch
Are you high?
Posted by lyter | 10/03/2006, 00:04