Failure to Launch (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)
by Tom Dey
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Actor: Kathy Bates, Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Terry Bradshaw, Zooey DeschanelDirector: Tom Dey
Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
Cinematographer: Claudio Miranda
Producer: Karen Dexter
Producer: Ronald M. Bozman
Producer: Scott Aversano
Producer: Scott Rudin
Writer: Matt Ember
Writer: Tom J. Astle
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
Published: 2006-06-01
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-27
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Failure to Launch (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: Jameson Thottam states that Failure to Launch really takes off
Summary: 5 Stars
Jameson Thottam states that Failure to Launch really takes off
Just when you thought Sarah Jessica Parker had sold all her Sex and the City dresses and movie costumes to PremiereProps.com here's come another chance for her, this time though, she wears a new hat, and offers us a fresh new look at her talents.
The Story ^ Jameson Thottam ^
As to the story, well, the real true-to-life dramas of "coming home" films are hard to find in the Hollywood mainsteam (aka Paramount, Miramax, Lion's Gate type films). While other studios prefer to focus on more serious matters, like teenage love, cop buddy chase films, and the all important fantasy space battle between good and evil -- perfect for movie props and memorabilia for them to sell on StarWars.com and premiereprops.com or ToyRus.com -- but what about movies for people with IQs over 50...
Well, though I don't know my IQ, its refreshing to see a film like Failure to Launch this get some screen time.
The film ^ Jameson Thottam ^
In this film, Mathew McConaughey reprises his role from that other film with Kate Hudson. He plays this part like the back of his hand. Is he this way in real life? He's beginning to get stereotyped...
His parents, played by the Bradshaw and Kathy Bates are excellent. The plot gets heavy and twisted, which is good for romatic comedy.
Some character discussion ^ Jameson Thottam ^
Deniro, Pacino, Brando and now Bradhaw. That's NFL hall of Famer, Fox TV broadcaster Terry Bradshaw my friends. Mr. Bradshaw proves to be the thespian of life in Paramount Pictures `Failure to Launch', a film starring Matthew McConaughey that centers around a 35 year old man who still lives with his parents, and has no intentions of leaving.
Getting Real ^ Jameson Thottam ^
In the pantheon of the genre of romantic comedies, they are what they are. Do we have a handsome, easygoing, breezy male lead? McConaughey, John Cusack, Orlando Bloom... any one will do. Check! Do we have an attractive, slightly neurotic, tightly wound female lead? Sarah Jessica Parker, Kate Hudson, Julia Roberts? Check! Does she have borderline slutty girl friends? Check! Does HE have well meaning, screwed up friends who muck everything up only to set it right in the end? Check! We now have everything we need to greenlight a rom-com. We'll worry about a script later.
Shake out ^ Jameson Thottam ^
So, these things being what they are, how does this one shake out? Mr. Mconaughey was literally born for these rolls, since he does do quite a few of them. He seems perpetually tanned, obviously works out a lot, comes equipped with a disarming country smile, has the whitest teeth this side of Lauren Hill and looks like a fun dude to hang out with. As slacker Tripp (with no last name that I know of) he handles the role so effortlessly it's almost as if he didn't even have to act it out. Sarah Jessica Parker plays a woman hired by Tripp's parents to be his girlfriend, and thus give him incentive to fly the coop. She too is perpetually tanned, works a lot and his very white teeth. However, I'm not quite sold on her ability as a leading lady, and her performance in this movie didn't help. Not that the character needs much depth, since it is a romantic comedy and all, but it didn't seem as if what little there may have been was effectively brought across by the actress. More at fault may be the fact the character was grossly underwritten and the fact that they saved all the good stuff for Zooey Deschanel (sister of actress Emily Deschanel. Neither of theses young ladies is anywhere close to being perpetually tanned) who plays her dry witted, pathologically violent, borderline slutty roommate. What happens next? I don't want to give anything away, but she falls in client, he finds out his parents hired her, he gets upset, she gets sad, they split apart, they get back together. Oh yeah, spoilers. My bad. In between rom-com cliché's are some very funny over top moments, mostly involving crazed wildlife and, of course, Terry Bradshaw. Terry along with Kathy Bates plays Tripp's parents, and you would think having to act across academy winner, and genuine great actress Ms. Bates might be intimidating for the former football player. Man, dude has won four Super-Bowls! You can't intimidate T.B.! All kidding aside, Terry Bradshaw is very funny as the beleaguered dad and considering his last movie role was in 1981's Cannonball run. I can understand why it took him 25 years to act in another film.
So if your wife insists on dragging you to a romantic comedy, this one ain't so bad. And it has Terry Bradshaw in it. Jameson Thottam
Description of Failure to Launch (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)
A THIRTYSOMETHING SLACKER SUSPECTS HIS PARENTS OF SETTING HIM UP WITH HIS DREAM GIRL SO HE'LL FINALLY EVACUATE THEIR HOME.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
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