At 35, Tripp has an interesting job, a hip car, a passion for sailing, and a great house - trouble is, he lives with his parents. They want him out, so they hire Paula, an "interventionist," who has a formula in these cases: chance encounter, get him to ask her out, involve him in a trauma, meet his friends and get their nod, delay sex, have him teach her something, then launch him. It's worked up to now, but this gets complicated when Tripp thinks she's getting too serious a... (Full plot summary below)
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At 35, Tripp has an interesting job, a hip car, a passion for sailing, and a great house - trouble is, he lives with his parents. They want him out, so they hire Paula, an "interventionist," who has a formula in these cases: chance encounter, get him to ask her out, involve him in a trauma, meet his friends and get their nod, delay sex, have him teach her something, then launch him. It's worked up to now, but this gets complicated when Tripp thinks she's getting too serious and one of his pals is attracted to Paula's deadpan, semi-alcoholic roommate, who's plagued by a mockingbird. Too many secrets may scrub the launch, and what if Paula really likes him? Who can intervene then?
Leave your thoughts about Failure to Launch.
| FilmJerk.comBrian OrndorfThis is a bloated SNL sketch comedy film, complete with Terry Bradshaw nudity and a cast pausing for the audience to laugh. |
| Screen InternationalTim GriersonVerging on the preposterous, director Tom Dey's Failure To Launch relies on attractive stars to overcome its lackluster execution. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekSo limp and mirthless that it would barely pass muster as a single-season network sitcom. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanavesePaula's practiced fraud sounds criminal at worst and grounds for civil suits at best, but to Hollywood, it's a romantic comedy....downright repellent. |
| PopMattersCynthia FuchsThe film, which begins as broad, even antic comedy, eventually turns serious, and you end up waiting 20 minutes too long for the machine to wind down. |
| Fresno BeeDonald MunroA film so egregiously bad that it really should be chopped into small pieces and buried under a freeway overpass. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenOne of those average romantic comedies that Hollywood churns out several times a year like widgets on an assembly line. |
| BlackFilm.comKam WilliamsZooey Deschanel steals so many scenes as Paula's anti-social roommate that she deserves to share top billing alongside McConaughey and Parker. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyA limp romantic comedy, this cut-and-paste bookend to last year's "Hitch" finds Sarah Jessica Parker playing Paula a demoralized romantic turned "professional interventionist." |
| New York PostKyle SmithThis is a guy comedy being mismarketed as a chick flick, complete with a poster that looks like a page from Lucky magazine. |
