Love. Commitment. Responsibility. There's nothing he can't run away from.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Hank Azaria, Dylan Moran, Harish Patel, Indie de Beaufort, Matthew Fenton |
Director |
David Schwimmer |
Screenplay | Michael Ian Black, Simon Pegg |
Music | Alex Wurman |
Cinematography | Richard Greatrex |
Editing | Michael Parker |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
Made in | 2007 |
Produced by | Entertainment Films |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Medium | Scroll down for embedded trailer
Genre | Comedy |
Language | Mild, fairly frequent, comedic context, mild impact |
Nudity | None |
Sex | None, mild, infrequent sexual innuendoes, low impact |
Violence | Mild infrequent comedic violence, no impact |
Prejudice | None |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | None |
Comments | None |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
Imitative Behaviour |
Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
Music (Scary/Tense) |
Music (Inappropriate) |
Topics to talk about |
Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith | 10 | |
The Citizen Natalie Bosman | 14 | |
Sunday Times Barry Ronge | 10 | |
BBC Stella Papamichael Thankfully the film isn't just a series of crude innuendos and gross-out gags. | 10 | |
eye Weekly Jason Anderson When you assemble some of Britain’s funniest actors with Michael Ian Black as screenwriter (co-writing with star Simon Pegg) and David Schwimmer as director, comedy gold should be in the offing, right? So how’d they cock this up? | 5 | |
ReelViews James Berardinelli For those who enjoy their character arcs and happy endings served up with a minimum of drama or humor, Run Fatboy Run becomes the latest entry into a genre that's burgeoning at an alarming rate. | 10 | |
Rolling Stone Peter Travers | 13 | |
ScreenIt Not horrible but far from good, it makes me want to say Run, don't walk...to see something else. | 8 | |
Metacritic.com 27 critics | 10 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 123 critics | 11 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Sporadic laughs can't overcome the formulaic and predictable story. | 10 | |
What the People say | ||
Internet 10235 Netizens Enjoyable British Comedy -- but not as zany as you might expect | 14 | |
Average .. 52% | 10 |