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Failure To Launch

Review By: Dan Deevy
DanDeevy@TheCinemaSource.com

I’m really not sure exactly how many more romantic comedies I can stomach. Although, based on the intolerant, narrow-minded, highly hypocritical attitudes demonstrated at this years Academy Awards (you know what I’m talking about) it looks like all we’re going to be seeing out of Hollywood for the next five to ten years is the same old same old. Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl ha-ha-aren’t-we-hetero-happy-cutesy-shit. Am I the only one sick of it? Anyone else out there interested in seeing a different type of relationship? I’m not even talking about a gay relationship. How bout a movie about the heartbreak of losing your best friend? Or about the incredible joy of meeting him or her and having them enter your lives? Something… anything other than the happy hetero couple.

Anyway… clearly, I digress. We’re here to talk about Failure to Launch, which in spite of my ardent feelings opposed to yet another Romantic Comedy, wasn’t half bad. If I had to sit through another one… which I did… it could have been far more painful.

The premise here is cute, what happens to those guys who are way passed the accepted age of living at home, but somehow are still there? Mom still cooks and cleans, dad is still cool to hang out with, so why leave?

Matthew McConaughey, the undisputed Sexiest Man Alive – no kidding, meet him in person and all doubt will be washed away - plays Tripp, a successful 35 year old guy still at home with his parents and who has no intentions of leaving anytime soon. His folks, wonderfully played by former football star, Terry Bradshaw and the always amazing and endearing Kathy Bates are finally sick of it and need a way to get him to move out. Enter Paula (Sarah Jessica Parker) a woman who makes her living by dating these wayward fellows just long enough to get them out of their childhood homes and out on their own. But wait… here it is… here’s the unexpected Romantic Comedy twist… what happens when she actually falls in love with him???? Awww…….

All of the performances that are turned in are admirable. The chemistry between McConaughey and Parker is surprisingly good. My hopes were not at all high for this particular pairing, but what looks like an odd coupling on the poster, actually turns into a great match on screen. Somewhat overshadowing that relationship for me was the odd form of love that exists between Tripp’s parents. It’s so interesting to see what happens to a couple after 35 years of marriage living in the same house with the same kid always around – and then suddenly he may be gone. Will they remember how to live as a couple rather than a threesome? (See ...