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Snappy screwball comedy
FAILURE TO LAUNCH
Directed by Tom Dey
Certificate 12A
“Yeah, I really liked that film.”
“Which one?”
“The one with Matthew McConaughey and that chick from Sex
In The City.”
“Sarah something.”
“Yeah, her.”
“What’s it called?”
This conversation I overheard goes to show that the badly monikered
Failure To Launch isn’t such a bad little film after all.
This romantic comedy centres on an American epidemic of children
– mostly male children, it must be added – who do
not move out of the parental home because basically they have
it too good in the family nest.
The pivot of this film is that the only way to get your son
to move out is to have him fall in love. For the parents of
Matthew McConaughey’s character Tripp, however, he gets
girls, beds girls and then gets them to dump him – not
exactly a route to marriage or even moving out. Getting so close
to being a modern version of a smart screwball comedy, the pleasure
here lies mostly in a fantastic cast.
McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker (pictured) are an adorable
duo who have enough chemistry to hold this rather tentative
situation together. It turns out that Parker’s character
Paula is a professional ‘girlfriend’, hired by Tripp’s
parents – the funloving duo of Kathy Bates and Terry Bradshaw,
a famous American professional footballer of yore – to
get their son out of the house.
This film has a snappy pace and more than enough sharp dialogue
to keep you on your toes. |
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