Delivery Man

Delivery Man

Rating 7.5 out of 10

I like Vince Vaughn.  For me he is just a funny, likable guy.  His biggest flaw is picking his movies.  Everyone remembers how good he was in Wedding Crashers.  Yet that was eight years ago.  What has he done since?   Not much.  Fred Claus, Couples Retreat, The Watch, Four Christmases and this years dog The Internship.  Delivery Man was getting hammered in the reviews ((36% on rottentomatoes.com) so I went in with low expectations.  I will say I was pleasantly surprised.  I injured this movie.

I think biggest problem with people going to see this movie is they are expecting a laugh out loud comedy.  It does have some funny parts, but mostly it's a coming of age movie.  As anyone that has seen a trailer for this movie knows Vaughn plays David Wosniak.  He is a irresponsible thirty something guy that works at his dads meat company and is always screwing up something.  He gets a visit from a lawyer from 533 youngsters from back when he was 20 he donated very often to the local sperm bank for money.  On the same day he finds out his on again off again girlfriend Emma (Cobie Smulders) is pregnant with their child.  She thinks she'd rather raise the baby herself than with this goof.

David has information on many of the 533 kids suing him and decides to secretly get to know them.  He starts to get fatherly feelings and feels good when he helps them.  It starts to change him from the inside out.  Vaughn does a good job of showing this.  There is a hokey part of the movie where loan sharks are after him if he doesn't come up with $80,000.

I found the movie entertaining and touching at times.  Much better than the reviews are giving it.