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.

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

It's a comedy of errors.

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

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

| 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.

| 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.

| 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."

| 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.

| Jul 23, 2008

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

| 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.

| 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.

| Mar 1, 2007

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

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

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

| 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.

| 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.

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

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

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

| 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.

| Jun 24, 2006

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

| 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.

| Original Score: C | May 29, 2006