Movie Reviews: "Delivery Man"

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Movie Reviews: Delivery Man


Vince Vaughn plays the biological father to 533 children in his latest movie, Delivery Man. The movie is getting a lot of flack for its implausible premise, which even made The American Society for Reproductive Medicine respond to it.

Dr. Grace Centola released a statement, "Considering the probability of pregnancy using frozen sperm — 20 to 30 percent and the probability of successful pregnancy with a live birth v10 percent — it would take a minimum of 1,250 vials of sperm to 'make' 500 children.

If a normal ejaculate results in about four vials, this would mean that the man would have had to donate about 300 ejaculates. No sperm bank would allow a donor to donate that many specimens over a several year period of time."





However, just because a movie's plot can't happen in real life doesn't mean the movie as a whole is bad, right? Wrong.

A host of other factors have indeed rendered Delivery Man rubbish, culminating in a lousy 38% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.





Claudia Puig of USA Today says:

"The concept's execution is sloppy, full of inconsistencies and plot holes. The situations teeter on funny, but never achieve it. And sections meant to be heartwarming feel lukewarm, far-fetched or inappropriately comical."





Peter Hartlaub of the San Francisco Chronicle was equally unimpressed:

"Delivery Man is nowhere near the worst film of 2013, but it is definitely the most exhausting.”





Laremy Legel of Film.com wittily jabbed:

"The moral here is that you should never try to learn the identity of your biological father because he might be Vince Vaughn."

-IMDb News