Delivery Man

I don't know what you are all yapping Abt but the movie is a beautiful one! perhaps not your usual comedy but it didn't fail to deliver that nostalgic, emotional and fun feeling. it's a solid 7 for me. I cried towards the end!

The story itself isn't that bad. I like the idea of a man donating seems to make money in his youth and without his knowing, getting hundreds and hundreds of children born. It's not a bad story and writer/director Ken Scott was not uncreative. But there is this one huge thing, I can't handle. This movie is nothing than a remake of the Canadian-French success-movie "Starbuck" , by same director, Ken Scott, that came out in 2011. Delivery Man has the exact same content and often dialogs copied 1:1 from original (just compare the trailers)l. It's an totally unnecessary step from Constantin to remake the movie, just with well known actors Vince Vaughn, Cobie Smulders. Even though Vaughn tries to give his character the same structure as Patrick Huard does in the original, it's not happening. Originally a remake was thought as a movie, made a few decades after the original with totally new cast and crew, with target to use new-won movie-technologies. Examples for that would be F Garry.Grays "The Italian Job" or Tony Scotty "The Taking Of Pelham 123". But in this case its just unnecessary and expensive (while the original cost only 5 million in producing, the remake was produced for the quadruple and had way less success) I see Deliveryman as an hopeless try to make money and have only Hollywood-productions shown in the cinemas. Do not watch that movie if you aren't Vince Vaughn or Cobie Smulders biggest fan. You drive better with watching the original, which has also come out in an English version.