Product Description

Matthew McConaughey is Tripp a 35 year-old who still lives with his parents. And who can blame him? It s free he s got a great room and mom (Kathy Bates) does the laundry. Desperate to get him out of the house his parents hire a gorgeous woman Paula (Sarah Jessica Parker) to give him a little push. They just didn t expect Tripp would push back! Zooey Deschanel Terry Bradshaw and Alias Bradley Cooper co-star in this romantic battle of wills that proves there s no place like home.System Requirements:Runtime: 96 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG-13 UPC: 097363449140 Manufacturer No: 344914

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4278 in DVD
• Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
• Released on: 2006-06-27
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 96 minutes

Amazon.com
The plot of Failure to Launch is utterly implausible, yet the movie is thoroughly fun. Tripp (laid-back Matthew McConaughey, Sahara, Dazed and Confused) is a 35-year-old man who still lives with his parents (Kathy Bates, Misery, and ex-quarterback Terry Bradshaw)--and they aren't happy about it. Eager to get him out of the nest, they hire Paula (Sex and the City's Sarah Jessica Parker), a professional motivator who feigns relationships with boy-men so that their improved self-esteem will lead them to leave the nest. But Tripp's not the usual insecure shut-in Paula's used to, and as sparks fly, Paula finds herself losing her professional distance. This sort of set-up drove classic screwball comedies of the 1930s and 40s; once you embrace the absurdity, the movie zips along with a surprising balance of humor and bittersweet shadings. Failure to Launch gets a huge boost from the supporting performance of Zooey Deschanel (Elf) as Paula's housemate Kit--part sourpuss, part tomboy, and entirely sexy and winning. McConaughey and Parker have enjoyable chemistry and carry the movie well, but Deschanel is an oddball romantic-heroine-in-waiting. Also featuring Bradley Cooper (Alias) and Justin Bartha (National Treasure). --Bret Fetzer

From The New Yorker
A slightly amusing romantic comedy about a slacker Lothario (Matthew McConaughey) whose parents hire a woman (Sarah Jessica Parker) to bamboozle him out of their house. The movie has a vaguely screwball atmosphere, with the two leads wittily bickering and bantering, and a supporting cast (Zooey Deschanel and Kathy Bates, among others) that performs the proper bits of funny business. The director, Tom Dey, keeps things moving briskly, but the movie is such a well-worn routine that it never comes to life.
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

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loveable characters
I enjoy this movie more and more when I watch it. You either love it or hate it like opera. There are subplots and the parents are precious. I wonder if this movie isn't based on some real life situations since most of the movie has characters that are similar to people I have met in real life. Even I have had to move back in with my parents for a while. Face it, who doesn't want to get naked if the opportunity presents itself. Who hasn't had thoughts of wanting to get rid of pesky animals? Who doesn't know people who are geeky, aggressive, silly, unpredictable? In other words, plan to watch this movie with an open mind and have fun with it.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
THE GOOD
As I've seen other reviews mention before while skimming through this page, Zooey Deschanel was the best part of this movie. In fact, her escapade with the mockingbird made for the most entertaining scenes of the flick. If the fat (the main plot) were to be cut away from this movie, you'd have an entertaining short film starring Zooey Deschanel that would go over way better with most audiences than this film did. There are some good parts to this movie, but those expecting more than your basic cliched rom-com will be sorely disappointed. Matthew McConaughey does a fair job as leading man, but all of the cast--Zooey Deschanel included--seems to be trying to do their best with a script that is, at best, a mediocre effort with a few good moments.

THE BAD
Sarah Jessica Parker. I've never seen her in another role, so I can't make a sweeping statement about her as an actress, but she was pretty awful in this role. Other than the plot itself, the major issue I had with this movie was that I didn't buy the romance... and that's all due to Parker's performance. McConaughey did a fine job in selling the romance, but I got the vibe with this film that Sarah Jessica Parker was just going through the motions with this role. Another thing that was quite bad about this movie but not horrible enough to fall into the "ugly" category below was the overall plot. The idea that parents would actually pay a woman to make their son fall in love with him (with the intent to dump him as soon as the 'job' was done) just to get the son to move out of their house is more ridiculous than any other aspect of this film. It's played for comedy, and it just doesn't work--logistically or ANY way.

THE UGLY
The editing and direction is atrocious, and quite possibly some of the worst I've seen in a major motion picture. There is absolutely no scene-to-scene continuity. In one scene, a character could be moving their hands in one direction, and as soon as the next shot comes up, the character's hands are elsewhere, when not even an instant is supposed to have passed. It happens many times during the course of the film and really rips the viewer out of the story. I'm not asking for great or even good direction, because this isn't that kind of a movie--but you'd think that a professional film would at least make an effort to come across as, oh I don't know, professional.

5/10