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Review: Failure To Launch
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Anyone who enjoys movies keeps a secret tally of any movie's strengths and weaknesses. Like an Olympic judge rating an athlete's performance, the final score determines whether a movie rates a recommendation or is forgotten as an also-ran.
As far as formula fare goes, one could do worse than the above-middlin' romantic comedy Failure To Launch starring Matthew McConaughey as a 30-something who still lives with his folks (Kathy Bates and Terry Bradshaw) until they hire a motivationalist (Sarah Jessica Parker) to help him fly the nest. Naturally and against all odds, McConaughey's and Parker's completely artificial relationship blossoms into something more. Here's how I broke it down:
First, it's funny. Not just an occasional giggle, sit-com kind of funny but infused throughout funny. TV vets Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember, who are attached to this year's Steve Carell update of Get Smart, may be green as screenwriters, this being their first project produced, but with that inexperience comes a kind of hunger. Of course, most first-timers become well-fed and lazy after a taste of success like this, but for now, proof of their talent is apparent. Each character is created with a specific purpose, as is every scene, sequence and act. It's all very textbook, but it works. Mark one in the "plus" column.
Failure to Lanch: Sarah Jessica Parker tries again
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Despite receiving critical praise for her nastier-than-Carrie turn in The Family Stone, Sarah Jessica Parker is still struggling to shake off the predictable
career effects of playing the same sweet, lovelorn character for
about a billion years. Her latest effort in that direction is Failure to Launch, a (cringe) romantic comedy in which she stars
opposite Matthew McConaughey. In the film, Parker plays some sort of
professional motivator who is hired by McConaughey's parents (played by Kathy Bates and Terry
Bradshaw. (Terry Bradshaw! I'm so seeing this just for him!) to get him to move the hell out of their house. You
know exactly where this is going, don't you? Yep, the "motivation" comes in the form of a girlfriend - a role
filled, of course, by Parker's character. And, yes, what starts out as a job turns into - wait for it - real love.
Ah, the sweetness of it all.So, based on this evidence - the trailer is linked below - maybe Parker's already given up. After all, she could certainly do worse that spending the rest of her career playing a fleet of Carrie Bradshaws: there's certainly good movie money is sweetness and romance.
Failure to Launch hits theaters in February.
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