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IL: David Schwimmer, Run Fatboy, Run (2007)
Friends meets Spaced - and with some of the awkwardnesses of Dennis (Pegg) here, you can see Ross in a similar plot, and certainly Schwimmer playing it. It's set in London: Dennis jilts his pregnant girlfriend Bibby (Thandie Newton) and five years later realises his mistake when he fears her new American boyfriend Whit (Hank Azaria) will come between them. Dennis decides he'll run the same marathon as Wit, and before you can stack the odds everyone (including Dennis's best mate and Libby's cousin (Dylan Moran)) have betted their futures on the race for a man who has never finished a thing in his life.
No real surprises here - Pegg is watchable as ever but it didn't really feel like his script, and I assume the lion's share was Michael Ian Black's (best known for Phil Stubbs in Ed). The London setting inevitably draws comparisons with Richard Curtis movies (difficult, but this is less annoying) only London actually has non-white people. Moran seems to have wandered in from another movie (gangster comedy) and quietly steals it - but there's nothing here that couldn't have been done in a sitcom.
Aimiable enough (if rather free with London geography) - little more than candy floss.
Totals: 49 [Cinema: 17; DVD: 30; TV: 2]
Friends meets Spaced - and with some of the awkwardnesses of Dennis (Pegg) here, you can see Ross in a similar plot, and certainly Schwimmer playing it. It's set in London: Dennis jilts his pregnant girlfriend Bibby (Thandie Newton) and five years later realises his mistake when he fears her new American boyfriend Whit (Hank Azaria) will come between them. Dennis decides he'll run the same marathon as Wit, and before you can stack the odds everyone (including Dennis's best mate and Libby's cousin (Dylan Moran)) have betted their futures on the race for a man who has never finished a thing in his life.
No real surprises here - Pegg is watchable as ever but it didn't really feel like his script, and I assume the lion's share was Michael Ian Black's (best known for Phil Stubbs in Ed). The London setting inevitably draws comparisons with Richard Curtis movies (difficult, but this is less annoying) only London actually has non-white people. Moran seems to have wandered in from another movie (gangster comedy) and quietly steals it - but there's nothing here that couldn't have been done in a sitcom.
Aimiable enough (if rather free with London geography) - little more than candy floss.
Totals: 49 [Cinema: 17; DVD: 30; TV: 2]