Saturday, November 16, 2013

Delivery Man (2013)


"Delivery Man" is virtually nothing like a Vince Vaughn movie, but rather a heartfelt celebration of the act of parenthood presented under radically exaggerated circumstances.

Writer-director Ken Scott does the same thing twice in repurposing his 2011 French-language film "Starbuck" into a Hollywood movie that predictably loses something in translation.

Offers comedy and sentimentality in equal doses and, unfortunately, equal efficacy -- the jokes, the characters and the situations aren't very funny, and the would-be heart-tuggery is mostly embarrassing.

Scott lets the remake follow the original almost scene-for-scene and line-for-line but gives the US version a lighter feel and a brighter look.

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