A strange idea for a romantic comedy results in quite a strange film. Not much to like about the main plot, but some fun to be had on the fringes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 11, 2020

It's a comedy of errors.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.0/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

A very weak film in which very few things are good. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Feb 12, 2020

Although both are fine in their roles, the script just doesn't do a good enough job of making the relationship believable -- and McConaughey and Parker don't have enough chemistry to overcome that fatal flaw.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Nov 19, 2019

It's not funny. It is occasionally witty, but not very often. It seems the filmmakers realized that as well as they fill the frequent dry spells with physical comedy that doesn't really fit the tone of the movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 22, 2011

A limp romantic comedy, this cut-and-paste bookend to last year's "Hitch" finds Sarah Jessica Parker playing Paula a demoralized romantic turned "professional interventionist."

Full Review | Original Score: C | Apr 20, 2009

Verging on the preposterous, director Tom Dey's Failure To Launch relies on attractive stars to overcome its lackluster execution.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2008

Failure to Launch? The same can be said for the movie.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | May 2, 2007

Zooey Deschanel steals so many scenes as Paula's anti-social roommate that she deserves to share top billing alongside McConaughey and Parker.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 19, 2007

You can positively smell the filmmakers' misguidedly intent resolution to turn this flick into something that will appeal to 12-year-old boys as well as its targeted chicks.

Full Review | Mar 1, 2007

It's everything wrong with bad romantic comedies, all rolled into one easy-to-hate package.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 24, 2007

The movie's notion of humor is exemplified by Bradshaw's extended nude scene.

Full Review | Dec 18, 2006

A romantic comedy in the true sense of the word, "Failure to Launch" is the first certified "date film" of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 13, 2006

As listless and phony as Failure to Launch may be, it does have one secret weapon in Zooey Deschanel.

Full Review | Oct 7, 2006

The multiple contrivances and the inevitable grinding of the storytelling gears will have you itching to go home -- whether you happen to live with your parents or not.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 22, 2006

...an admittedly unique premise that is, by and large, employed to hopelessly underwhelming and palpably forgettable effect...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 23, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 15, 2006

Add to this a confused moral message and it's clear that, as its title inadvertently suggests, this romantic comedy never gets off the ground.

Full Review | Jun 24, 2006

It'd take a considerably more charming pair of leads to salvage a concept this lame and a screenplay this witless.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 18, 2006

One of those average romantic comedies that Hollywood churns out several times a year like widgets on an assembly line.

Full Review | Original Score: C | May 29, 2006