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The Review - MOVIES with KAREN KRIZANOVICH
 
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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