Comments on: Run Fatboy Run Review

By: Danilo

Danilo — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:55:12 +0000

Saw it, the lead actor was funny, so was the Indian fella. They should give them a “mmedle”. Not as funny as the other comedy movies I’ve enjoyed I would say in a scale of 5 a 2.5 either direction.

By: SİNEMA

SİNEMA — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:34:04 +0000

This was a great film and had me and the rest of the audience in stitches. Well worth seeing and for those that have seen Michael Douglas in the Running [1979] the tale will be somewhat familiar.

Simon Pegg delivers the comedic moments superbly (doesn’t he always?) and yet also convincingly parts a warm touch to, well, those warm touching moments in the film that he shares with his son.

Harish Patel deserves a very honourable mention as Pegg’s landlord-cum-mentor-cum-trainer. The only problem with the film was that all the way through I was waiting on Nick Frost to make at least a cameo appearance – talking of which the David Walliams scene will bring a smile to those Little Britaners out there.

Great film.

By: Jean

Jean — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:22:12 +0000

I saw Run Fat Boy Run 2 weeks ago at a screening. I had watched the trailers beforehand and thought it was going to be a pretty funny movie, but in the end, the movie is very predictable and 99% of the funny scenes were in the trailers.

By: CrzyDJM

CrzyDJM — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:32:24 +0000

I loved every minute of the movie, but I can understand the griping about the cliched boyfriend…

I still loved it though, especially the “hitting the wall” segment because I’ve been there and done that before…

By: Kristina

Kristina — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:10:46 +0000

Yeah, I said that in my review. Making the other guy a jerk makes the shit WAY too convenient. It basically hands the woman an easy way out to the relationship when, in reality, any sane woman would not go back to a lazy, irresponsible asshat who left them at the ALTAR while PREGNANT WITH HIS FUCKING CHILD! As much as people joke on Superman Returns, at least they didn’t fall into this trap by making Marsden’s character a douche.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:44:10 +0000

“He started out being likeable and led into being asshole towards the end which I liked.”

This is what I HATED. I felt like they were just fucking with me. You knew he was gonna go bad in some ridiculously unbelievable and sudden way. I was hoping they’d have the balls to not acutally make him an asshole and have Pegg’s character just realize at the end what an idiot he was and that it was too late. No stakes. We all knew he was gonna get her. It ended with it almost being fortunate he left her at the alter, so he could grow up a bit then win her back. So bascially, the moral of the story is, you can’t really fuck up in life, as long as you’re determined you can turn anything around, there are no irreversible mistakes, when we all know there are.

By: clone_tk422

clone_tk422 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:36:52 +0000

I actually reckon Hank Azaria stole the show on this one. He was great. As for him being the cliche jerk boyfriend, I agree that was the case, however in the beginning of the movie he didnt start out being the asshole.. He started out being likeable and led into being asshole towards the end which I liked.

By: Chris Edwards

Chris Edwards — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:45:21 +0000

I saw this film, because of living the U.K with middle aged women and they loved this film. The only problem with this film is that all the comedy bits that Pegg does was written for himself by himself.

But moran parts are the best parts about it

By: Grundy

Grundy — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:40:51 +0000

I suggest you check out Dylan Moran’s show Black Books, which is really just great, it’s up there with Spaced.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:25:36 +0000

John, we are almost EXACTLY on the same page with this movie. I saw it a while ago and did a review, and I didn’t like it, either. I was very disappointed, because Pegg is usually firing on all cylinders. It felt like everyone was slumming, and the whole thing with Whit being a dick was BEYOND predictable. Just a LAME movie.

http://www.stalepopcorn.co.uk/reviews/movie-reviews-theatrical/movie-review-run-fatboy-run/