"would it be weird if I took a bath?"; Enjoyable, just nothing special

Rating: Null/10 (2 March 2010)

I think there are three reasons why people would want to check out Run Fatboy Run: as a normal movie going, or just viewing, experience (certainly mostly if you are a fan of comedies), to check out what Simon Pegg can do without Nick Frost and Edgar Wright (I belong to this "category" as a fan of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) and to check out the first feature film of David Schwimmer (fans of the show Friends that are curious to see freakin' Ross behind the camera).
First of all, Run Fatboy Run is one of those pictures that any director could have made. I mean, if you're interested in this film because of David Schwimmer well, there's really nothing that sort of indicates how Schwimmer is as a director. In other words, Run Fatboy Run is, simply, generic stuff. It follows the same old structure, and it is sort of aware of its very predictable storyline. I mean, the film places Simon Pegg's character (Dennis, the "fatboy" of the title) as a guy who, simply, wants to win back his old fiancée (played by Thandie Newton) the rich and athletic Whit (played by Hank Azaria) is the rival. So we have that Dennis wants to win her back doing what a movie character would do: beat his, athletic, rival at a marathon. I say that the film is aware of being generic since Newton's character is like "so you win the marathon, and then what? You think I will forget that you leaved me the day of our wedding just because you win a marathon? This is not a movie", towards Dennis' plan. I guess you know how this movie ends, here the issue is that no matter what Dennis will run the marathon to prove that he can finish something and everybody will see the a****** Whit is, no matter what he will win back the woman yes, the film knows that its storyline is the same of always but it doesn't really care, it goes for the usual. Still it's enjoyable but not very memorable (just like Simon Pegg's performance) Dylan Moran, as Dennis' buddy Gordon, delivers: "Who's gonna want to buy tickets for something that happened yesterday?" "Time travelers". "Would it be weird if I took a bath?".