comps-784-38265 I think a test of whether a film is 'good' or 'bad' is to ask the question - would you be happy to watch again or several times?Run Fat Boy Run is a film I have happily watched several times over the years. It is a charming comedy where the good guy does, eventually, triumph through adversity. The old fashioned ending, where they do live happily ever after. Pegg jilted his girlfriend (Newton) at the alter because he was scared, thus ending the relationship. However, they do have a son. A few years later, he's working as a looser security guard, she is dating a rich American playboy. Pegg does start to get jealous. Particularly as the relationship looks to be serious and may mean she and will marry the American and go to live in the USA taking their son with her.Trying to outdo the playboy (who is a keen runner) Pegg talks himself into running the London marathon (against the American) The story is a light hearted comedy as Pegg tries to win back his family. The marathon becomes 'the wall' he must overcome to achieve this. 7.5/10

Troy Putland Simon Pegg shows the world that he's a capable man in a lead role. He's an ordinary, down-to-earth kind of guy, someone you'd love to have as a friend. His character, Dennis, starts off the opposite. He runs out of his fiancée Libby (Newton) on their wedding day, whilst she has a bun in the oven! How are we to relate to someone as distasteful as he? Surprisingly he pulls it off just by being himself. 5 years on, Dennis tries to win back Libby's affection by taking part in a marathon, and competing with her new man, Whit (Azaria). Director David Schwimmer (yes, Ross from Friends!) has spent time developing Dennis, but no one else. Whit has all the appealing traits (money, power, mysterious man from another country), but not the personality. He's the cocky American all us Brits are destined to hate. Newton and Azaria are underdeveloped characters. Schwimmer's potential gets bogged down by laughs and the cameos which don't quite hit the spot they're aiming for. Pegg is brilliant, and his best friend in-role Dylan Moran's on par. R,FB,R is fun, guaranteed to crack a few smiles. No matter how it ends, Pegg is still the winner.

Syl Friends star David Schwimmer made an impressive directorial debut in this comedic film. The star is Simon Pegg who works at lingerie store as a security guard. He ran away five years ago from his marriage to biracial Libby played wonderfully by Thandie Newton. Libby was pregnant with her son at their wedding that never happened. Well now Libby is dating Hank Azaria's character, a successful American working in London. I love the London film shots. Anyway Dennis Doyle played by Pegg decides to run the marathon. With his friend Gordon and his neighbor, Mr G, who sent him training. Will he give up and quit like he has so many times before. You have to watch and be surprised. It's a great comedy to watch for fun.

HelenMary I love Simon Pegg; from Spaced to Hot Fuzz, Paul to Shawn of the Dead, so was expecting to love this too. Whilst I didn't love it, at least not on first watching, I did 'like a lot' this Brit-comedy with a lot going for it. Simon Pegg is clever, self-effacing and eminently watchable. He's not so up his own backside that he can't make fun of himself and in this - as with a lot of his films - he doesn't paint himself well, but comes good at the end.Dennis (Pegg) is a bit of a loser, a "nearly man" and someone who never sees something through including marrying love of his life and mother of his child Libby (the beautiful Thandie Newton), leaving her 'at the altar' so to speak. Five years on and he's in a dead end job, and seeing Libby get it together with good-looking, rich, fit American hedge-fund manager Whit (Hank Azaria) who has the best of everything, and so the competition begins for both the favour of Libby and the attention of their son, Jake. The competition between the two is padded out by funny interactions between him and his landlord (Harish Patel) and Libby's cousin/his friend played by the timing-genius Dylan Moran. Spot Stephen Merchant, David Walliams and Floella Benjamin to name a few familiar faces dotted through the film.Whilst there's nothing particularly outstanding in Run Fat Boy Run there are some great comedic moments (the lingerie shoplifter and the spin-class portion were particular hoots), some heart and the take home message about how the underdog can win if they work hard. It's predictable to a certain extent but it's just a nice film typical of Simon Pegg's oftentimes cringeworthy sort of humour; always well executed and cleverly written. Sadly no Nick Frost in this one!