Simon Pegg: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

4. Run Fatboy Run €“ Dennis Doyle

Fat Boy Run Fatboy Run was the very definition of throwaway. It was an OK film, but absolutely nothing stood out about it and €“ probably fittingly for a fillm featuring dieting €“ there was very little to sink your teeth into. It was formulaic and predictable, a charge that can be levelled at both at the script and the actors. In the middle of this slice of vanilla film-making was Simon Pegg. You can see why he€™s there €“ his appearance as an everyman compliments the underdog nature off this story extremely well. Yet I just couldn€™t figure out a reason to root for him, something that wasn€™t helped by his decision to run out on the adorable Thandie Newton at the film€™s beginning. In my opinion, such an opening gambit was just too much for anyone to come back from, even for such a likeable screen presence as Pegg. Despite his nice nature, he€™s simply given too much to do within the film€™s run-time, and running the London Marathon doesn€™t somehow give him a good enough redemptive arc to atone for his wedding-bolting act. So while he tries manfully to make the film more than the sum of its parts, Pegg unfortunately became part of the problem, creating a headache which the whole thing never quite recovered from.
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