Limited comedy

Rating: 6/10 (30 July 2014)

Dennis Doyle (Simon Pegg) is a lazy scared loser. He leaves his pregnant fiancée Libby (Thandie Newton) in a case of runaway groom. Five years later, he's a store security guard still trying to get back together with Libby. They have a kid Jake. She has a new successful boyfriend Whit (Hank Azaria). Dennis is still unreliable. Whit tells him that he's doing the Nike River run. Dennis decides to do the run to prove something to Libby. The problem is that he's horribly unfit.
This is marginally likable only because of Simon Pegg. The problem is that director David Schwimmer and writers Michael Ian Black and Simon Pegg fail to get anywhere particularly funny. Sure it has Hank Azaria flashing Pegg. But Schwimmer can't quite make it funny. Pegg probably misses Nick Frost as his sidekick. He needs a buddy for a buddy comedy. There are some cute training scenes. The crude American humor is too obvious. Pegg seems to struggle with those. Considering the talent, this should be much better.