tripp be a man in his thirty who still live with his parent . his parent hire paula to get him to move out . the film manage the set up and but forgets to fill in the romance . matthew mcconaughey a tripp be off put to watch and and his accent so thick it be often difficult to understand what he be say and baffling and since no one else in the film and include his parent and share his accent . a for the character and he isn not give a personality or any depth and except for a sledge hammer back story about a dead fiancée and which be drop in towards the end of the film . paula ( sarah jessica parker ) repeatedly mention how sweet tripp be and but this sweetness must be go on off screen and a on screen he be constantly a jerk . there be also no chemistry between mcconaughey and parker which make the so called romance hard to notice . if it be there at all . paula be give even less personality than tripp . all we know about her be that she get men to move out of their parent home professionally . she only refer to tripp in term of the job and so when after about half an hour we have to be tell paula have feeling for tripp and it be a surprise . it certainly isn not in the performance or the dialogue . it would help if we saw she do her job before be hire in to help tripp . a it be and it be very confusing how she be so successful since she utterly fail in every aspect of her job with tripp . and realise she be fail in her job and she sleep with tripp for money . she become a prostitute and and doesn not bat an eyelid . how be this not an important plot development . the film generally doesn not make sense and the scene in which tripp be attack by a chipmunk or dolphin or lizard seem to have wander in from a different genre and and fail to amuse . however and the scene in which kit and paula house mate and try to buy a gun be very funny and the only funny moment of the film and mainly due to the performance by the salesman ( rob corddry ) . a for the support cast and kathy bates a tripp mum ham it up and zooey deschanel a paula house mate phone in her usual tediously bored performance this be obviously her selling point and but strangely enough and a bored actor be bore to watch . basically and failure to launch be an entirely disengaging film and forgets to actually put any romance in between the set up and the finale .