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Run, Fat Boy, Run [2007]
from Entertainment in Video
starring Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Hank Azaria, Dylan Moran, Stephen Merchant
directed by David Schwimmer

Features:

• PAL

Editorial Review:

Simon Pegg is clearly, right now, someone who can do little wrong at the box office. Run Fatboy Run follows hot on the heels of Hot Fuzz, and again finds its star delivering a quality comedy turn, in a film that boasts a good few laughs too.

Directed by Friends star David Schwimmer, Run Fatboy Run casts Pegg as a security guard fed up of being outrun by the people he’s supposed to catch. He’s also determined to try and prove to his ex-fiancee (Thandie Newton) that he’s a changed man, and thus decides to take on the London Marathon, where he’ll be up against the new man in her life (Hank Azaria).

Pegg is on good form in Run Fatboy Run, and genuinely delivers a character you want to root for. Yet it’s the supporting players who walk off with the plaudits too. Dylan Moran in particular is in great form, as is Harish Patel, while the likes of Thandie Newton, Hank Azaria and David Walliams also turn in good work.

Cleverly knowing not to outstay its welcome, and only occasionally stuttering under the weight of some laboured work behind the camera from Schwimmer, Run Fatboy Run is an easy, quite funny and light on the brain comedy, that helps cement Pegg’s growing status as a quality leading actor. Worth checking out. --Jon Foster

A listless-yet-lovable loser (SHAUN OF THE DEAD's Simon Pegg) thinks he's found the way out of his rut and into the heart of his ex-fiancee: running a marathon. David Schwimmer (FRIENDS) directs this comedy with a script from Pegg and THE STATE's Michael Ian Black.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Possibly Simon Pegg's best performance to date...
  After being slightly let down by "Hot Fuzz", I had high hopes for "Run Fat Boy Run" as I saw a couple of trailers about a month before it came out and thought it looked pretty good. Whilst I never got to see it at the cinema, my sister just brought this DVD for my birthday recently.
  Directed by David Schwimmer (Friends' Ross Geller) and with a fantastic cast including Dylan Moran (Black Books), Thandie Newton (The Pursuit of Happiness) and Hank Azaria (Friends' David "from Minsk", the scientist... more info

• Solid!
  This is a good solid film, with a great cast. The story is original and there are many laughs along the way. Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz) and Hank Azaria (The Simpsons) are brilliant in this, and there are also several good extras.
  Although it is a good solid film, it is nothing too special, and after a few watches you will tire.

• A good natured and actual funny rom com, makes a nice change!
  In David Schwimmer' s direction debut, Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz) stars as Dennis, a man who left his fiancé pregnant at the alter. 5 years on, Dennis still loves the same woman, and wants to prove his love by competing in the Nike river run.
  After the delightful Shaun of the dead and the even more brilliant Hot Fuzz, I was all geared up to see Pegg in another comedy, and though enjoyable and fun, doesn't live up to his other classics.
  Following many comedy and romantic conventions, Run fat boy... more info

• Fantastic??????
  The front cover of the DVD shows the words 'Fantastic' ' A Comedy Gem' 'Hilarious'..... worth buying I thought. This is the biggest pile of garbage I have ever watched. It has actually tried to rip off several different movies including 'About a Boy' see if you can spot the others. Even the bloopers are unfunny, and sometimes allegedly, staged?
  Fantastic..No. Unfunny ...yes. Should say on the report 'Tries hard, must do better' Stick with Sean of the Dead

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