someone in this movie mention philadelphia story . it worth watch if you enjoy failure to launch and and it can can be say to tick a lot of the same romantic comedy box represent beautiful people and aspirational lifestyle and character who have difficulty with intimacy and commitment and family entanglement and mishap with animal and pairing off at the end . it my basis for comparison when i find failure to launch to be a bad movie . in the old day romantic comedy be write by serious writer and romantic comedy win oscar and they do not have to choose between be entertain and be deep and meaningful . romantic comedy be the genre with the most importance in our own life and and hollywood let u down badly when hack and marketeers write the script and star phone in their performance . just a couple of thing that i can put my finger on . if someone like me with no scriptwriting talent be write this movie and and i want to show that even though the lead man look like a bit of a playboy and he have the potential to be a committed and care husband and father and i might think of have him mentor a cute kid and take him to baseball game and stuff and and that would have comic potential because when the character need to be tell certain thing and i could have the kid say it and it would be precocious and funny and cute . but i also have to have something hold the character back from intimacy and so the last woman he be in love with die tragically and it so romantic and it explain everything so neatly and and it turn what look like a negative into a positive . really and this be how bad the film be . you can make a million good romantic comedy out of answer these question in believable and non clichéd way and and that where comedy and character quirk should come from and not paste on top in animal antic episode . somewhere in hollywood there be writer who can do a good job than this and they just do not bother hire them for this movie .