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Run, Fat Boy, Run [2007] | ![Run, Fat Boy, Run [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ygcJEydnL._SL75_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: David Schwimmer
Actors: Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Hank Azaria, Dylan Moran, Stephen Merchant
Studio: Entertainment in Video
Category: DVD
List Price: £19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 132
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 96
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.7
EAN: 5017239195501
ASIN: B000WXDMLE
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: February 18, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: New & Factory Sealed. Immediate dispatch from the UK.
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Amazon.co.uk 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
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 So, so, so bad. June 23, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
To say that this film was a disappointment would be an understatement of epic proportions. It was so poor that it had me cringing at times. Proof that a good cast and crew does not always make for a great film. For me, it seems to get caught between two stools, it's neither a great comedy, nor a great romantic comedy - there's little believeable romance and very little comedy which when considering Simon Pegg's other great work was surprising. I think it took me 10 minutes to raise a smile and perhaps I laughed once throughout the film - and what humour there was could be spotted a mile off to anyone with a half a brain...as could the entire story. It was almost like a British, rom-com by numbers - a slight variation on a thousand of films before it, same characters, same iconic London locations, same cool indie sound track. Perhaps I'm looking too deeply and I have to admit that this is not my kind of film to begin with but even taking this into account, I fail to see any good in this film. One star is a generous rating in my opinion.
Very Disappointing Film June 22, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I expected quite a lot from run, fat boy, run, on the basis that it starred Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton and Hank Azaria and was directed by David Schwimmer. Surely credible actors like these wouldn't put their names to just anything. Obviously I was wrong. It was so cheesy, predictable and not really that funny. As mentioned in other reviews, the idea that Thandie Newton and Simon Pegg's characters were once nearly married is totally unbelievable, there is zero chemistry between the two. For me it was quite painful to watch just due to the sheer predictability of it all, I could literally see what was coming throughout the film. There is nothing original about run, fat boy, run - the film borrows on the concepts and ideas from hundreds of films before it - and delivers nothing that is worth watching.
Mildly disappointing June 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Run Fat Boy Run" is a moderately entertaining film that is not quite a "comedy" in that it doesn't have much laughs. It is a pleasant tale about a lazy but likeable security guard ,played by Simon Pegg,who tries to win back his ex fiancee by running a marathon. This drastic course of action is brought on by her dating a well heeled ,handsome and athletic American financier.Afraid of losing both her and his young son Pegg goes to extreme lengths to prove his devotion to them both. The acting is quite good ,but there are no real laugh out loud moments .
 Into the un-funnyness! June 10, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love Simon Pegg, it has to be said. But the error of judgement shown when using ex-Friends David Schwimmer as director for this could-have -been-good, "comedy" is waster than the Gobi-desert!!!
I spent an already not to uplifting afternoon in a hospital-bed, watching this with my husband,and sadly enough we both felt equally robbed of 90 precious minutes of our lives. It just ISN'T FUNNY!!!!!
Simon Pegg is great, with what little he's given- Hank Azaria may be fab in The Simpsons, but in this he is woodier than a birch-tree!!!
As for Thandie Newton- with such badly written dialouge and plot- how could she be other than bland!?!
Ad-libbing may have worked, well worked well in both Hot Fuzz and Spaced, bur here it just make you feel embarrassed for the actors, wanting to shout at the screen: Come on- make it funny!!!
I just wish I had paid more heed to the other rewievers on this page before ordering it! Now I try to flog it on swedish eBay, but no-one is interested, even at 50 p! How sad is that?!
Avoid avoid avoid!!!!
dreadful May 25, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I really feel that quality actors and writers such as Pegg have a duty to the public to turn down roles in rubbish such as this. It's absolutely dreadful with no redeeming qualities. After a while I began to wonder whether it was deliberately parodying American/English comedies, but reluctantly realised that it didn't even have that depth. No one turns in a good performance, and the tree in the park had more charisma than Thandie Newton and was even less wooden. Utter utter rubbish and a waste of everyone's time.
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