Easygoing Tripp (Matthew McConaughey) is a 35-year-old man still living with his mom (Kathy Bates) and dad (Terry Bradshaw). His method of breaking up with the various women he scores is to bring them home as soon as they exhibit the first sign of becoming too serious.

Tripp's best buddies, tech geek Ace (Justin Bartha) and world traveler Demo (Bradley Cooper), also live at home with their parents. Regardless, they tell Tripp that he's "afraid of love," a charge he denies, insisting that his prolonged childhood is just great.

Tripp's parents aren’t particularly upset with the arrangement, but, after chatting with some very happy neighbors enjoying a newly emptied nest, they hire Paula (Sarah Jessica Parker), a "professional interventionist" who promises she can seduce men suffering from "failure to launch," thus inspiring them to move out on their own.

Paula soon realizes that Tripp is not a typical case, and not just because he and his friends all have weird names and the same problem. The two share an obvious attraction, interfering with her carefully orchestrated routine, which is built around not becoming too involved.

Director Tom Dey (Shanghai Noon) and TV writing veterans Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember switch between more down-to-earth scenes and cartoonish ones. On that latter score, Tripp keeps having oddly dangerous encounters with animals that attack, giving the film some brief, slapstick moments.

There is an explanation given as to why these animals keep attacking Tripp, along with why he is still living at home, as well as how Paula stumbled into her strange line of work. But it is Tripp’s incredibly precocious young nephew who provides sage advice throughout the course of the movie.

The wacky antics of Kathy Bates and Terry Bradshaw create some good laughs. Bradshaw even bares his backside in a funny scene involving his character's ‘nude room.’ Zooey Deschanel also brings some quirkiness to her role as Paula's slightly unstable roommate, though the two are such unlikely friends her scenes don’t always feel like they fit into the film.

Despite some weaknesses, I found Failure to Launch a fairly enjoyable comedy. This is a good DVD to put in if you need a laugh or are looking for a good popcorn movie.

The DVD includes four featurettes: “Casting Off: The Making of Failure To Launch,” “The Failure To Launch Phenomenon,” “Dating In The New Millennium,” and “Moviefone.com Unscripted With Matthew McConaughey and Terry Bradshaw” as well as a Failure To Launch contest and the theatrical trailer. The film is presented in Dolby Digital Sound (English 5.1 Surround, English 2.0 Surround, and French 5.1 Surround), and English and Spanish subtitles.