Delivery Man: Trailer and Reviews

Vince Vaughn is a funny guy. As anyone who saw "Wedding Crashers" will tell you. In this remake of a Quebec movie, he's not as funny as his fans would like him to be because the script seems to be going for heartfelt as well as funny. Vaughn plays David Wozniak, a delivery man for his family's butcher business. Years before, he routinely made donations at a fertility clinic, giving sperm so wonderful that 500+ children were conceived with it. Now, 142 of said offspring are suing to learn the identity of their heretofore anonymous progenitor. With that setup, we then see David finding and interacting with various 20-something children. Along the way, he learns that being a father is something else he may be good at.

Here's what the critics are saying:

Vaughn does his Vaughn thing, pursing his lips and popping his eyes, but mostly shambling from one scene to the next, effortlessly, but hardly electric. Delivery Man, with its democratic band of half-siblings and its feel-good view of humankind, is what it is: a reproductive remake that will make you laugh. More than once or twice. Steven Red, Philadelphia Inquirer


Scott tells the story with the same mix of humor, sweetness and wonder that he displayed in the original “Starbuck”; and Vaughn, dropping any pretense of edge, plays a convincing-enough good-natured goof. It’s all far-fetched, silly and light. But then it’s supposed to be. Tom Long, the Detroit News

The film shifts frequently between David's very traditional, tight-knit Polish family headed by Mikolaj's benevolent patriarch, the nontraditional one that is forming around the donor kids, and his future family with Emma. The life lessons are nearly as numerous as the offspring, which puts Vaughn in almost every scene and keeps the ideas from being explored very deeply. Still, it works to get the actor out of his post-"Old School" and "Wedding Crashers" rut. While Scott's light touch makes David's maturing entertaining, what's more fun is watching Vaughn, the actor, come into his own. Betsy Sharkey, LA Times

Yet the forced narrative doesn't match the caliber of the casting. The movie veers between broad farce and sappy melodrama, detouring early and often into unlikely coincidence territory. In one sequence, David follows one of the kids into a hotel conference room where the Starbuck descendants just happen to be holding a meeting about him. How convenient. As conceived, Delivery Man works way too hard to be the feel-good movie of the year. If only it had just focused on being funny. Claudia Puig, USA Today

"Delivery Man" is rated PG-13 and runs 1 hour and 43 minutes.