In a world
where there is so much difference you really shouldn't view it in black and
white. The way you should view the world is in gray, that way you accept
everyone and everything for what it is. When it comes to movies I do tend to
view them in black or white, or I either like the movie or don’t like the
movie. Everything I see falls in that category, but everyone once in a while I
see a movie in that gray area.
“Delivery Man”
to me exemplifies a movie in the gray area. David Wozniak (Vince Vaughn) sucks
at life. He works for his family meat store delivering their meat all around
New York. He never seems to have it together, and just can’t seem to get ahead
in life no matter how hard he tries. He has reached rock bottom, his girlfriend
Emma (Cobie Smulders) wants to leave him and there are not so friendly people
after him for debts owed. Then one day he finds that thing that Jack Nicholson
referring to in “As Good as it Gets”, that thing that makes you wanna be a
better man. David finds out that because of a mistake at a fertility clinic, he
is the father of 532 kids. Now just take that in for a second, 532 kids, can
you imagine the family picture? Well it turns out 142 have filed a lawsuit so
that their father can be revealed, who is only known to them as Starbuck.
Instead of running away, David starts to check in on these kids, one by one,
helping them with life challenges. In doing so David finds himself and how good
life can really be.
The screenplay
was written by Ken Scott, who also directed the film. It is based on the
Canadian film named “Starbuck”, which is based on a true story. The story
starts off slow, but the good news is it gets a lot better as it moves along.
It starts off with Vince Vaughn being Vince Vaughn, you know the same guy he is
in every movie. Now I like Vince Vaughn, I just wish he wouldn't be the same
guy every time. Well I get my wish in the second half of “Delivery Man”; it is
like he changed right before our eyes. I don’t know maybe it was the story, but
Vaughn goes from the guy everyone wants to hang out with, to the guy everyone
is cheering for. Chris Pratt does a good job as Vaughn’s lawyer friend, who
helps defend him in the case brought against him by his kids. For all the
things this movie had going against it, Vaughn being his normal self, and all
the funny parts being shown in the trailer, “Delivery Man” rebounds and turns
out to be an enjoyable movie. So with Thanksgiving coming up, watch a movie
that shows what happens when you give to others, because this one really
delivers.
Brian Taylor
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