![]() Gerne mimt er diese Art von Mann, was ihm auch immer exzellent gelingt, nicht nur wegen seiner einzigartigen Mimik. Wieder spielt er einen typischen faulen und depressiven Typen namens Dennis. Simon Pegg ist auf dem besten Weg den Rest der Welt zu erobern. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. Early on Dennis says, “I’m not fat, I’m unfit,” and Run, Fatboy, Run proves pretty flabby, too.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Pegg affirms his skills as a humorous, ingratiating lead, but Run, Fatboy, Run, the directorial debut of “Friends’” David Schwimmer, looks more like a heavy-handed English rom-com like Bridget Jones’ Diary than Pegg’s ingenious efforts such as Hot Fuzz. THE BOTTOM LINE: The mark of a great comic actor isn’t how funny he is in a strong comedy, but how funny he is in a weak one. Fatboy reveals Dennis’ poster of Team America: World Police – a film that has a song about training montages – and has a training montage of its own. Dennis tries to drink a glass of raw eggs just like in Rocky. ![]() POP REFERENCES: Dennis’ son (Matthew Fenton) watches The Fellowship of the Ring when we first see him, and Dennis disappoints him by failing to get tickets to the (real) Lord of the Rings stage show. Fast becoming its own stereotype is the “vulgar British best friend” (usually the second banana in Hugh Grant movies), whom Moran plays here with a little too much of a deadpan. ![]() Ghoshdashtidar who becomes his assistant trainer. STOP THIS CLICH É : Dennis has a crabby, chubby Indian landlord named Mr. (Pegg was reportedly chagrined at the level of corporate sponsorship.) PRODUCT PLACEMENT: Dennis and Whit compete in the fictional Nike River Run, so the familiar swoosh is all over the film. For the big race, Dennis wears the shirt for his charitable sponsor, Erectile Dysfunction Awareness.įLESH FACTOR: Dennis recoils at nude (but concealed from the audience) glimpses of Whit, who asks “Can you see my point?” Simon’s unsavory pal Gordon has two buffalo shots as punchlines. He frequently wears T-shirts for hip, vintage bands such as Siouxsie and the Banshees and David Bowie (the soundtrack includes Bowie’s “Queen Bitch”). WORST LINE: “Always running away, never running in the right direction.” The film never slows down with the “running away from responsibility” theme.įASHION STATEMENTS: Dennis first attempts to train while running in teeny tiny shorts. Only someone British could successfully use the words “scrotal” and “whilst” in the same sentence. In general, Pegg’s expressions are the film’s greatest asset, from Dennis’ first close-up of premarital jitters to his stricken look when his friend Gordon (Dylan Moran) slaps him.īEST LINE: “Please keep your hands out of the ‘scrotal zone’ whilst you’re at work,” says Dennis’ boss after he mentions a post-running rash. After one of his first runs, Dennis gets a blister that takes up nearly half of his foot. Whit’s bigger, cooler boat eclipses Dennis’ toy boat when he plays with his son. MONEY SHOTS: Dennis sprawled on a locker-room floor after his first spin class. THE PITCH: Five years after leaving his pregnant fiancée (Thandie Newton) at the altar, lovable “unfit” loser Dennis (Simon Pegg of Shaun of the Dead) vows to run a London marathon to win her back from her rich American boyfriend Whit (Hank Azaria).
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