Truly Dreadful Film

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Failure to launch is not Sarah or Matthew's best at all. Sarah does pretty well in her starring role, but it's the film itself that lacks, the script and dialouge is lackluster and dulled down. Matthew was kinda eh, he honestly didn't impress me here too much, he has done much better work in higher quality films. Sarah and Matthew also lacked chemistry together, they just didn't really have it between them. Bradley cooper and Justin Bartha were just kinda there, I mean nothing much, I will say though that Zoey, Sarah Parker's roommate, is actually pretty darn funny and I very much enjoyed her performance, she had a fun atmosphere about her that was charming. Kathy bates is good and entertaining in the film, she's still got it. The plot is overall very predictable and phoned in. I mean I'm not completely 100% trashing the movie, because there are some funny moments and some dramatic well acted moments too. The father's nude scene was a bit abrupt and uncalled for, now I am in no way against cinema nudity, as long as it's not gratuitous or nasty looking lol. And I think this films nude scene falls under the nasty category haha. Failure to launch receives a 5/10.

The story dove head first into introducing the characters and getting the plot rolling which was the only good thing about the film since if it were any longer I would have given it a 1. Once the ball was rolling with it's a-list cast playing severely underdeveloped characters, the formula became too blatantly evident far too early even for a rom-com. The disturbingly futile attempts to add originality and humor came in the form of random animals inexplicably biting the protagonist at various points throughout the film and an equally irrelevant sub-plot of Zooey Deschanel's character (SJP's cliché quirky friend) and an annoying mockingbird. Nothing was genuinely funny despite performances by talented actors and the absurd arbitrary scenes slotted into an otherwise very formula- driven snooze of a film.

This is a true chick flick and a waste of a chick flick at that. Shallow characters, hamish acting, predictable dialogue, and Hollywood formulaic scripting. Certainly didn't improve the movie career of Parker. It's just typical Hollywood dreck they crank out to suck people into paying $8.00 for a movie. Avoid this movie unless you want to be put in a coma. You can probably stream this over Netflix or Hulu which is good because you can fast forward really fast. I've tried to find some small redeeming quality in this movie, but nothing comes to mind. I guess it could be used for torturing terrorist suspects by forcing them to watch this movie over and over and making them choke on their own vomit. It's that bad.

I hated this film. Firstly, I can't stand Matthew McConaughey or Sarah Jessica Parker and to see them together on screen was like my worst nightmare. Neither brought anything to the film and the characters that they played were repulsive and unlikable. The script was not funny at all, worse than that I can't even see which bits were supposed to be so it can't have just been that I didn't get it, it just isn't funny. The plot was a terrible idea, who's parents would be so heartless to hire a woman to make their own son fall in love just to get him to move out? The obvious inevitability is that his heart will be broken. The plot is not only unconvincing but totally horrible. The whole things add up to selfish, arrogant people doing heartless things to each other, and it isn't fun to watch. I did find small bits involving Zooey Deschanel funny, but more because it was weird and stupid rather than because it was witty and well-written.