The great Jeb Lund (It's Christmastime, @Mobute) returns from our Longest Yard episode to cover another movie with an old football player in it, the demented high-concept rom-com Failure to Launch! Rob and I discuss our sharp digressions on the quality of the film: he passionately defines it as a thoughtful and clever film about a man fundamentally out of step with the confines of natural law, existing in a state of war with the natural world until his hubris is rectified by the love of a strong romantic partner. I, meanwhile, passionately define it as a dogshit movie where Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker swirl around a tedious idiot plot while occasionally suffering ludicrous slapstick animal attacks that get less and less funny the longer we go.
Jeb was the perfect guest to have here thanks to his years of expertise in insipid Hallmark detritus, as we pick through the good and the bad of this wacky piece of work, from the high-point supporting cast (Kathy Bates, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper and even Terry Bradshaw doing charming work) to its demented B-Dub-3-ass climax, this movie is CERTAINLY never boring, and we definitely don't run out of things to discuss in this very VERY fun episode, including me making a righteous correction to the ACTUAL CREDITS OF THE FILM THEMSELVES. Check it out! We had a blast!
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