Failure to Launch
It’s romantic but short in content and style..yet long and boring when I watched it today as I thought it’s about erectile dysfunction of men around 36-60 years old. haha. So I’ve found out this was about a 35 year old guy who still live with his parents at marrying age so they hired an interventionist acted by Sarah Jessica Parker, to change their son’s mind of being carefree, dependent and casual about love and life.
So they met, dated and fell in love with each other until lie and deception turned out bitter but better in the end about their effort to launch him out of the house, since the norm in America is to settle independently even to the point of paying for university fees w/o asking the parents to shoulder their tuition unlike in Asian countries where it’s a major responsibility of the parents to send their children to school and even support their family in the future as part of being family-oriented which is actually a bad Filipino trait according to survey and effect.
Sarah Jessica Parker is a lovely and sweet woman who may not be beautiful and young like Zooey Deschanel but she’s able to portray that light and effective character that a romantic movie for the adult viewers must possess. Obviously the same charm she used in Sex and the City series and film. While Matthew McConaughey is not the typical white guy with his tan and bod coz he can arouse the female audience more than Jason Segel did in Forgetting Sarah Marshall..haha. although Justin Bartha & Bradley Cooper are glassy and cheeky like Matt yet they are dork and geek but there’s that radiant and boyish sex appeal that is natural and hot when you check their eyes..and it’s obvious that Matt got the face, height and might as lead actor on this film.
Maybe the Wedding Planner in 2001 starring Matt and J Lo was more itchy and romantic..haha. since Maid in Manhattan was enormous and fabulous when it hit the cinema in 2002 opposite dark and scary Ralph Fiennes but he’s amiable and handsome in this film as a senatorial candidate who fell in love with a maid.
I like this film yet I missed the comedy and romance except the chipmunk, dolphin and iguana bites that Matt endured which was weird and horrible unlike good romantic comedy like There’s something about Mary and The Sweetest Thing, or feel-good movies like Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Alabama, or The Lake House or PS I love You, so it really failed to launch the goods haha. maybe i didn’t watch the movie at all. or i just took Sex and the City film adaptation against Sarah for her ugly and old angles.
