Review of Delivery Man (2013) by Orlando O — 25 Apr 2014

Delivery Man a Vince Vaughn comedy drama film that fails to capture the laughs and the serious dramatic tone of the movie. Vince Vaughn plays David Wozniak a deliveryman from his family meat business is in debt of $80,000. His girlfriend Emma (Cobie Smulders) is pregnant but sees him at failing in taking responsibility. A lawyer from the sperm bank contacts him and tells him about the excessive amount of donations he had made in his student years. He had fathered 533 children and 142 of them are filing a lawsuit to the clinic to reveal David's identity while they only know his alias name as "Starbuck.".

The story tries to be one of those charming cheerful movies by having Vince Vaughn's character trying to connect with each one of his children without revealing who he actually is. The story is going to be predictable but the serious dramatic tone just does not tie together. Especially, some of his children who are young adults are facing real world problems while it raises the questions, "did all there parents just abandoned them?" and they are need of searching for there sperm donor father. Ken Scott who wrote and directed this remake did a terrible job in holding the movie together. While Scott did write and directed the original movie 2011 Starbuck but the movie did have some laughs and only a few throughout.

Delivery Man just was not as parenthood inspirational on how the tone was trying to make it out to be. It was saved by Vince Vaughn's and Chris Pratts characters humor. The movie was not as funny or dramatically put together it was too loosely with these characters.