Featured Audience Ratings

• Universal D

  
  By the numbers romcom nearly completely stolen by ZD as the quirky nutjob support girlfriend. The best thing seen with SJP though, by far.

• Film C

  
  It gets three stars purely for Zooey Deschanel and that bloody bird! Deschanel is quirky and funny in this Funnyish movie!

• Jeff "

  
  Failure to Launch is yet another romantic comedy that relies far too much on the usual clichés you'd expect from the countless romantic comedies out there. Everything you'd expect from a romantic comedy is present, and that's not a good thing. Failure to Launch is a… More
  Failure to Launch is yet another romantic comedy that relies far too much on the usual clichés you'd expect from the countless romantic comedies out there. Everything you'd expect from a romantic comedy is present, and that's not a good thing. Failure to Launch is a mess from start to finish. There are a few mildly funny parts, but the film has so many things wrong with it, that it overshadows the promising elements for this film. The film wasn't my cup of tea, and overall it was a poorly constructed film. Matthew McConaughey I find him to be very misplaced in these types of films, he just ruins his career with films like this. This film was awful, bland, and unimpressive. The Writing limitations show on-screen. The film really ends up being a silly affair after a while, and it becomes pretty annoying. This film had the potential in being a good film; instead director Tom Dey crafts a film that misses the mark in every respect. The lead actors are terrible here, and I don't recommend this film. If you're looking for a good comedy film, you won't find it with Failure to Launch. This is a complete misfire of a film, a film that could have been good, but suffers from a bad director and bad script. With that in mind, you can expect something very bad with this film. Failure to Launch is just like every other rom-coms, clichéd, predictable, silly and most of all, an unfunny, strained film that will bore the viewer.

• Cassie H

  
  Great movie. Somehow Matthew McConaughey always seems to play the weird put funny parts. "Your naked" "this is my naked room". Terry Bradshaw was also hillarious in his naked room scene. Just a great movie! Sarah Jessica Parker & the rest of the cast were… More
  Great movie. Somehow Matthew McConaughey always seems to play the weird put funny parts. "Your naked" "this is my naked room". Terry Bradshaw was also hillarious in his naked room scene. Just a great movie! Sarah Jessica Parker & the rest of the cast were amazing too and who could forget about the mocking bird that drove Kit crazy :) :) :)

• Bethany M

  
  The best film I've seen Sarah Jessica Parker in apart from 'Footloose.' Quite funny and the plot of the film was well written.

• Dead A

  
  Ah the ending... always the same. I don't really like Sarah Jessica. I liked Zooey's character. Something I'd want to be most of the time. p.s: naked room? seriously?

• Lady D

  
  Now that's my kind of girl! I like the rule part of Sarah Jessica Parker's job here, made it a little more interesting as a Rom-Com, in other ways it was very much typical of the genre, but it was entertaining and enjoyable

• Lenny M

  
  Don't really like MM nor SJP, decent supporting cast which helps the movie from tanking, except for that Zooey woman, worse than a BB to the sack, maybe not that bad. Terry Bradshaw acts? Yep, he's porkin' Kathy Bates, what a intro to the film bidness!

• Tim S

  
  Hollywood just keeps pumping out these really awful romantic comedies, don't they?

• Anthony L

  
  Painful viewing! It?s the worse than the usual boy meets girl - they fall in love - they split - they get back together. Sprinkled with poor attempts at comedy it trips over the usual cliques like when he gets bitten by various animals & throws food at someone in a restaurant by… More
  Painful viewing! It?s the worse than the usual boy meets girl - they fall in love - they split - they get back together. Sprinkled with poor attempts at comedy it trips over the usual cliques like when he gets bitten by various animals & throws food at someone in a restaurant by mistake etc. It?s not funny or convincing, everything about it is lazy. Failure to laugh!!

• Derek A

  
  Surprisingly, this film isn't that bad for a chick flick. If you're forced to watch something with your girlfriend, this isn't too bad. Matthew McConaughey is fairly stereotypical McConaughey here in these roles (I prefer him in more serious roles like <i>Two… More
  Surprisingly, this film isn't that bad for a chick flick. If you're forced to watch something with your girlfriend, this isn't too bad. Matthew McConaughey is fairly stereotypical McConaughey here in these roles (I prefer him in more serious roles like <i>Two for the Money</i>). Oddly enough I didn't think Sarah Jessica Parker was <i>THAT</i> annoying here. But this film's saving grace was Zooey Deschanel. Absolutely stunning and vibrant with a fantastic, quick-witted sense of humor. Without her, this crapfest stinks. She steals the show.... <i>Failure to Launch</i> has a wickedly ludicrous plot, and a serious lack of chemistry between the two leads. But it relies on its charm and sense of humor, and mildly succeeds in entertaining. Major points for the paintball scene as well. Not bad... don't go out of your way. But it's better than some of the other fluff out there.

• Candy R

  
  Tripp (Matthew McConaughey) has never left home. He only brings girls back to meet his parents when he wants to get dumped. His parents hire a girl (SJP) to get him to fall in love and move out. Matthew is very funny in this movie.

• Flutie A

  
  I seriously bust out laughing at the part where he says "Dude, there's something wrong with your mom..." If you liked Riley in National Treasure, Justin Bartha steals a few scenes in this one.... If you like "How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days", I'm… More
  I seriously bust out laughing at the part where he says "Dude, there's something wrong with your mom..." If you liked Riley in National Treasure, Justin Bartha steals a few scenes in this one.... If you like "How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days", I'm pretty sure you're guaranteed to like this.

• Leigh R

  
  It was cute and worth another viewing.

• Red L

  
  I enjoyed this movie. Reminds me of Hitch, except the other way around. Sarah Jessica Parker is hired to convince Matthew McConaughey to leave his parents' nest. You figure out how it ends.

• Bobby H

  
  Comedy / Chick-Flick put together, with an actual meaning behind it as well. Not to many movies that do both, well, but this movie did it.

• Rachel F

  
  This was a good movie. I watched on a really long plane ride and it made it tolerable. Plus it has Matthew McConaughey.

• Roy G

  
  Failure to Launch stumbles its way to a happy ending without generating either much romance or comedy.

• Dean M

  
  Liked the character of Sarah's flatmate who wanna kill a mockingbird that drives her crazy.

• Sanjaya &

  
  Fresh. Enjoyable. Funny. Laughtout. One of Comedy of the year!!!

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