Other than fine acting Failure to Launch is a left-on-the-pad dud.

Apparently, there's a thriving mini-industry among fringe psychotherapists aimed at helping desperate parents shoo their adult offspring -- those who refuse to leave their comfy childhood bedrooms -- out of the nest.

It's based on a phenomenon called "Failure to Launch," and according to the gimmicky romantic comedy of that title directed by Tom Dey (Shanghai Noon) from a sitcom-style script by Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember (both veteran sitcom writers) it's reached epidemic proportions.

Case in point: Patient, put-upon suburban couple Sue and Al (a well-matched Kathy Bates and Terry Bradshaw), whose hunky 35-year-old son Trip (Matthew McConaughey) is still comfortably ensconced in his boyhood bedroom (complete with cutesy cartoon sheets), where he staunchly refuses to grow up.

Every morning as Trip showers, his devoted mom makes his bed and folds his laundry. After devouring a hearty breakfast, Trip sets off with a neatly packed sack lunch in his backpack, for a day of mountain biking, paintball playing and goofing off with his two other stay-at-home slacker pals, Ace (Justin Bartha) and Demo (Bradley Cooper).

It's all enough to drive his loving but worried parents batty. They're concerned that the handsome, intelligent Trip is using his Peter Pan charms to avoid intimacy with any of the beautiful young women he dates and then dumps. (What woman would want to get seriously involved with a middle-aged man still living with Mom and Dad?)