Delivery Man

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UK Release Date: January 10th 2014

An affable underachiever finds out he's fathered 533 children through anonymous donations to a fertility clinic 20 years ago. Now he must decide whether or not to come forward when 142 of them file a lawsuit to reveal his identity.

Director: Ken Scott (Starbuck)

Starring: Vince Vaughn, Chris Pratt, Cobie Smaulders

Vince Vaughn is a born practical joker, one that acts younger than his 40+ years. Delivery Man may have the recipe for disaster, or potential to suck, but surprisingly it holds its head up high. Vaughn's David Wozniak is a fuck-up trying to make amends to all his problems. He's a rubbish truck-driver who's constantly badgered by his father. He owes a lot of the wrong people money, and his police officer girlfriend Cobie Smulders wants nothing to do with him. Out of luck. Punching above his weight with a pissed off other half and learning a set of life lessons are a forte of Vaughn's. 

Wozniak is different to Vaughn's other characters. Instead of coming to terms with his problems, he knows he has them. When he finds out he's the father to 533 children because of a mishap at the fertility clinic and over 100 wish to know who he is, Dave takes a roundabout turn and sees this as an opportunity to do right.

The story is a complete farce, but a comical one at that. It treads ever so lightly in to ridiculousness, without losing a touch on reality. The chances of this happening are slim, but not impossible.

Vaughn is the most predictable of type casts. He shrugs it off somewhat in Delivery Man, but the tantalising performance comes from Chris Pratt's Brett. He's Dave's lawyer and friend, taking control of every scene he's in with some great one-liners.