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(1 - 33) of 33 OFCS Rating: 21% Rotten Page   1   D- "This is a bloated SNL sketch comedy film, complete with Terry Bradshaw nudity and a cast pausing for the audience to laugh."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf "The film, which begins as broad, even antic comedy, eventually turns serious, and you end up waiting 20 minutes too long for the machine to wind down. "   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1/5 "It's everything wrong with bad romantic comedies, all rolled into one easy-to-hate package."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius B+ "Silly, lighthearted, funny - and despite a slow start, ultimately charms its target audience."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 1.5/4 "There's nothing here a good dose of Viagra couldn't cure. Impotent and dull as dishwater."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 2.5/4 "...an amiable and entertaining (albeit entirely forgettable) piece of work."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2/4 "When the stars aren't charming the viewer, the film is busy shooting itself in the foot."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 1/4 "Failure to Launch is a not-so-distant cousin of those happy-go-lucky herpes commercials that play on television--it's so far out it scans as science fiction."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez B "It's fun stuff, overall, inconsequential and fluffy and not too cheesy until the end."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "Some movies are on auto-pilot from the get-go. Failure To Launch doesn't even have a pilot."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress 1.5/5 "As bland as corn flakes."   Film Threat   Felix Vasquez Jr. C- "So limp and mirthless that it would barely pass muster as a single-season network sitcom."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A frolicsome comedy about a 35-year-old who loves living at home with his parents; good chemistry between McConaughey and Parker make the romance work."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/4 "It fails at romance and comedy. It fails to make the lead characters interesting and their love affair believable. And it fails to develop a consistent tone that would enable viewers to suspend their disbelief."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 7/10 "Click here to read review"   vj.net.ua   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk 1.5/4 "The title is perfectly apt -- and too easy a target -- for this romantic comedy that never shifts out of second gear."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 5/10 "It’s more of a 'smile' film."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 3.5/4.0 "... possibly the perfect chick flick/buddy flick hybrid... light enough, clever enough, and well-rounded enough to earn and entertain its target audience."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 2/5 "the best scenes of the movie are unrelated to the overall plot and involve the supporting cast... If only the movie was about them instead."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr C "plays like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days crossed with Without a Paddle. "   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2.5/4 "The main story, whose creepy premise demands major tiptoeing around lest it slip into the realm of outright smarminess thoroughly unsuitable for a PG-13-rated comedy."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh "[A]s nasty and misanthropic a piece of work as, oh, the entire genre of nasty-and-misanthropic 'romantic' 'comedies' we've been bombarded with in recent years... half of which seem to star Matthew McConaughey..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/4 "Failure to Launch shoots itself in the foot by refusing to take its premise seriously. The very thing that seems most interesting is the same thing that the film goes out of its way to avoid dealing with."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B "This is a bright and bouncy date movie with some sharp lines and even sharper performances, especially from Bates and Bradshaw."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 2/5 "... óbvio que queira ocultar sua fonte de inspiração, a comédia francesa Tanguy; a comparação certamente lhe seria desfavorável."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 2.5/5 "Lively and enjoyable but nothing remotely special -- this could be just about any romantic comedy ever made, complete with a contrived premise and a bright cast to distract us from the same old formula."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C "One of those average romantic comedies that Hollywood churns out several times a year like widgets on an assembly line."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 1.5/5 "It'd take a considerably more charming pair of leads to salvage a concept this lame and a screenplay this witless."   DVDTalk.com   Scott Weinberg 2.5/4 "(Tom) Dey's erratic cuts disrupt the momentum as he rushes to get to the next easy physical gag."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell 1.5/4 "i just hated every single character soooo much"   sbs.is   Stefan Birgir Stefansson "As listless and phony as Failure to Launch may be, it does have one secret weapon in Zooey Deschanel."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 6/10 "As date movies goe, this misanthropic misfire is briefly amusing but instantly forgettable."   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 0/4 "It's two things and both of them suck."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 33) of 33 OFCS Rating: 21% Rotten Page   1