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

| Jul 23, 2008

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

| Dec 18, 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

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

Once again, Matthew McConaughey creates an aura, a force-field of unfunniness. A man-sized block of Unfunny Kryptonite from the Planet Unfunny, killing off all the funny within a 1,000-yard radius.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Flimsy but fun, this rom-com has an enjoyable edge to it -- just don't expect to remember much about it in the morning.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 31, 2006

It sounds like a vehicle with plenty of comedy mileage, but Failure To Launch quickly runs out of steam.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2006

How, exactly, did an idea with this much star power and comic potential manage to misfire?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 18, 2006

There's no spark in the romance because people in romantic comedies are simply not allowed to be people anymore: they're hair and outfits inside a premise.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 18, 2006

It's completely unbelievable.

Full Review | Mar 16, 2006

This is a showcase for her [Parker's] sensitive intelligence, her watchfulness, and her way of thinking and reacting. The Family Stone did nothing for Parker, but Failure to Launch makes a strong case for life after Sex and the City.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 10, 2006

Failure to Launch is yet another disposable romantic comedy made with little thought or skill.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 10, 2006

Apart from its name (easily the front-runner for worst of the year), Failure to Launch represents a failure in every way: of ideas, of inspiration, of casting.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 10, 2006

This is a guy comedy being mismarketed as a chick flick, complete with a poster that looks like a page from Lucky magazine.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 10, 2006

The plot synopsis sounds less like sitcom than sick-com: A womanizer has the tables turned on him when he falls in love with, essentially, a prostitute whose services are being paid for by parents who don't have the decency to ask him to leave.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 10, 2006

The comical part -- the part with the assaulting fauna -- is eccentric, knockabout fun, spattered with outlandish setups and amicably offbeat supporting players who reach out and steal the show.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 10, 2006

If you're in search of a film with any real emotion or believable story, forget it. If you're OK with a flick that has some funny bits and a kooky couple playing second banana -- hey, launch on.

| Original Score: C | Mar 10, 2006

Parker does occasionally make us forget that Failure to Launch is so bereft of comic ideas that it ultimately stoops to giving Terry Bradshaw a nude scene to milk a laugh.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 10, 2006

Like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Wedding Crashers, Failure to Launch reminds us that Hollywood is set on making romantic-comedy counterparts to the chick flick.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 10, 2006

Under Tom Dey's direction, a perverse form of symmetry is at work here, and the stereotypes seem like old acquaintances you can enjoy for a couple of hours.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Mar 10, 2006