Run, Fatboy, Run

March 28, 2008

Rated: PG-13 Runtime: 100 min Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

This is the first movie directed by David Schwimmer from FRIENDS. Simon Pegg (SHAWN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ, and Scotty in the upcoming STAR TREK movie) plays Dennis, a runaway groom in London who left his pregnant bride at the altar (The truly scrumptious Thandie Newton).

Five years later, he has visitation rights to his young son, but is trying to win back the mother of his child. She’s being romanced by a handsome, arrogant American (Hank Azaria, who does most of the voices on THE SIMPSONS).

Somehow Dennis convinces himself that if he can run a marathon he’ll have shown that he can stick with something for once in his life and he’ll win the girl back.

He’s actually not all that fat, but he is out of shape, so this becomes a sort of Labor of Hercules, if Hercules was a slob.

He’s egged on by his eccentric friend (Dylan Moran, also in SHAWN OF THE DEAD) , and coached by his Indian landlord (and his landlord’s incredibly hot daughter).

The writing in this isn’t anything spectacular (it’s pretty much what it appears, Slob-ROCKY romantic-comedy), but it is funny, due to the talents of Simon Pegg, Hank Azaria, and Dylan Moran.

Posted by Mack Guffin | Filed Under 3 Stars, Comedy, Dylan Moran, Hank Azaria, Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Theatrical