Run Fat Boy Run. I'm sure someone has probabyl said that to me once or twice in my life, and like this film it is funny but also kind of annoying.
At 90 minutes you think this would be a comedy breeze, unfortunately it feels about three hours long.
The premise is that Simon Pegg's character Dennis is a loser and let the love of his life go by running away on their wedding day. Now to redeem himself to her he decides to run a marathon to prove himself to her. All this setup takes way too long - about an hour because Simon Pegg's character seems to keep hurting himself in way too many slapstick moments.
In saying that, I got a few good laughs out of it but it ultimately ends EXACTLY the way you think it will after watching about five minutes of it.
Director David Schwimmer (yep - the Friends guy) directs by the numbers and realistically if Pegg wasn't the star of this it would just be another run of the mill rom com.
If it's a rainy day (like it was here today) you can't go wrong with this - just don't expect too much
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