Run, Fatboy, Run (2007)

Let's be realistic.

Excellent, a Must See

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Actually not really, but what would you expect with a title like that? It does depend on what you think of Simon Pegg and things like him being exhausted after 10 seconds of running. Also his "wardrobe" and the "handling" of it during certain scenes. Low level humor is what you could call it and depending on your mood or taste, you will like it or you won't like it at all.Simon Peggs character is also not the "biggest" of them all. I haven't watched any of those "Biggest Loser" shows, but I do know there is a difference between the people in that show and what Simon Pegg is having (on his bones). Having said that, not all the jokes work, but it's decent overall.

Simon Pegg ditches his pregnant fiancée(Thandie Newton) on their wedding day and runs away. 5 years pass. Now he is working as a security guard. Newton starts seeing Azaria, a successful businessman who is also good looking.She has Pegg's son, Jed. Azaria is obsessed with running and is about to participate in the London river marathon. Peggwants to win back the respect of Newton. He decides to run. The movie moves at a fairly good pace and the script is laced with very funny punch lines by Pegg who is excellent as the cigarette smoking, lazy guy who tries for an overhaul. Newton looks stunning but as usual cannot act even if her life depended on it. There are lots of quirky characters who help Pegg. The one notable mention is our own Harish Patel who plays Pegg's Indian landlord with an unpronounceable name. This ends up being uplifting aside from being hilarious. 3.5 out of 5.

In Run, Fatboy, Run, Simon Pegg plays a shlub to tries to prove himself to a girl he wronged years before.While the movie was funny from the get go, at first I was skeptical about the whole proving himself angle. Pegg's character comes across as a loser with no redeeming values, and at first I had trouble sympathizing with him. But the movie is smart, slowly allowing you to warm up to Pegg and to begin to root for him, at least a little. The movie doesn't get carried away with itself; if I were to jump from the beginning to the end of the movie, I would think it was absurd, but the film does a good job of building slowly and somewhat unsteadily to its end.It is also very funny. Maybe not as funny as Hot Fuzz, but very funny all the same, and quite likable.

Underdog stories usually tend to be a bit formulaic, but this movie mocks the whole underdog cliché by just going completely over the top. Everything about this movie is retardedly implausible, and that's pretty much where all its charm seems to come from. Well, not all its charm, because Simon Pegg definitely deserves some credit as well. He does the same schtick he already did in "Shaun Of The Dead" (even the love subplot is eerily similar), but there's nothing wrong with not changing a winning team. A good underdog movie always has you cheering for the anti-hero, and this one drags out its finale so long that the obligatory corny euphoric moment lasts for roughly twenty minutes. Just picture the decisive homerun from "Major League" or the winning touchdown from "Remember the Titans", this movie's entire third act feels like that. Not the definitive sports comedy, but undoubtebly one of the funniest.