Review: Failure to Launch

Rated PG-13 | 97 mins

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It isn’t everyday that one is able to watch Matthew McConaughey get bit by a chipmunk and a lizard in the same movie, which is probably a good thing. I’m not sure if the strangeness of these scenes in Failure to Launch was the fault of the actor, who is nowadays becoming Hollywood’s Number One choice for a leading-man, but they certainly fall flat. Otherwise, the movie exactly what one would expect out of a big-studio-produced romantic-comedy. It has several charming moments and McConaughey and fellow lead Sarah Jessica Parker, who plays a woman hired to assist her co-star’s thirtysomething-and-still-living-at-home to leave the nest of his parent’s home, share a considerable amount of onscreen chemistry together. In the near future, Failure to Launch will make a fun lazy-afternoon rental, but the audience never has enough emotional interest invested in the characters to allow the sum of its parts to merit anything more.