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What to Expect When You're Expecting, Movie

What to Expect When You're Expecting 2012

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Comedy-drama based on the non-fiction pregnancy guide of the same name, focusing on the lives of five couples and their initiation into parenthood. All-star cast includes Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Rock and Anna Kendrick. More

TV fitness guru Jules (Diaz) and dance show star Evan (Matthew Marrison) find that their high-octane celebrity lives don't stand a chance against the demands of pregnancy. Baby-crazy author and advocate Wendy (Elizabeth Banks) gets a taste of her own militant mommy advice; while her husband (Ben Falcone) struggles not to be outdone by his competitive alpha-Dad, who's expecting twins with his trophy wife (Brooklyn Decker).

Photographer Holly (Lopez) is prepared to travel the globe to adopt a child, but her husband Alex (Rodrigo Santoro) isn't and tries to quiet his panic by attending a "dudes" support group. While rival food truck chefs Rosie (Kendrick) and Marco's (Chace Crawford) surprise hook-up results in an unexpected quandary: what to do when your first child comes before your first date? Hide

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182 votes / 15 comments The Talk

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    • baws

      nah

    • Stephen

      Its great for a laugh

    • pigme

      LOL

    • anni

      no judging!

    • Mark

      No plot!

    • Kerri

      My husband is a stay at home dad...I wonder if he'd like this. It kind of still looks like a chick flick!

    • Frazmataz

      Sweet so where's the funny stuff?

    • baws

      nah is a better movie

    • meh

      scatterbrained mess

    • Lily

      Looks like fun! Every mother should see it and every husband should do this!!

    • Lis

      Sounds like good Fun plus Rodrigo Santoro is hot!

    • LizLemon

      Making movies about pregnancy handbooks? Scraping the bottom of the barrell here, Hollywood.

    • Arivinder-s-m

      i think evey one needs to chill out and watch a good move like the ditator lol lol lol lol

    • Kerri

      Its a good movie, eveer

    • Kerri

      Its a good movie, every mother and husband should watch it :D Aha

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Frances Morton Flicks Writer

Here's one for the internet generation with attention spans so short we need a new storyline every two minutes. What to Expect When You're Expecting rockets through every babymaking scenario of the best-selling pregnancy guidebook that 'inspired' the film. The whoopsie daisy pregnancy. The difficult conception. The adoption. The result is a hodgepodge in tone ricocheting from drama to parody with glimmers of emotional punch. More

These multi-star anthology rom-coms, sparked by the hugely popular Love Actually, keep rolling off the Hollywood sausage machine. The big names on the poster (Diaz! J-Lo!) draw punters in but the best and funniest performances come from the supporting roles. While our leading ladies suffer the ignominy of public vomit and pee, the men take to weekly support walks in the park.

Chris Rock charms as the chief of the motley 'dudes group'. Other laughs are served up by Bridesmaids alumni; Ben Falcone, aka Air Marshall Jon, almost unrecognisable as Elizabeth Banks' puppy dog husband; schlubby, shameless Brit, Rebel Wilson playing type and Wendi McLendon-Covey (the blonde mum Bridesmaid) stealing scenes from J-Lo. Dennis Quaid thieves the screen too as a retired racecar driver with a trophy wife (Brooklyn Decker).

Yup, that's a lot of characters. There's not enough space in this review to mention them all. That's how these sausage films work; overstuffed and bland but leave you feeling warm inside. The cinematic equivalent of comfort food. Hide

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Enjoyable enough

KatieF Flicks Superstar (?)

What to Expect When You're Expecting was exactly what I was expecting (excuse the pun). It was funny at times, but not hilarious. The supporting characters and Elizabeth Banks definitely made the movie more enjoyable, and for that I am thankful.

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Great fun

alpheta A-Lister (?)

As far as this type of movie goes, it's a winner. There are tons of laugh out loud gags, and the sparse but adequate emotional moments allowed me to be drawn in to some of the character's stories. A really fun ride, and one that begs us to just sit back and enjoy a great laugh, which is a real joy in itself. See it, see it, see it!

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Press Reviews

Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

A cheerful comedy with just enough dark moments to create the illusion it's really about something. Full review.

Empire (UK)

It’s Valentine’s Day with more babies and fewer attractive people. Neither a date movie (run for the hills, boys!), nor a chick flick (who wants to know the icky bits?), its intended appeal is a poser. Heavily pregnant people and those with newborns don’t get out much, do they? Full review.

Guardian (UK)

Someday Hollywood will think of women as more than fallopian tubes in heels; until then, we're stuck with this kind of project. Full review.

New York Daily News

What you don't expect is how bad almost all of it is. Full review.

New York Times

The overall mood is of warm reassurance, and some of it is even pretty funny. Full review.

Time (USA)

The awfulness of What to Expect When You're Expecting, an ugly brew of guide book, reality television and romantic comedy, is of course, entirely to be expected. Full review.

Time Out New York

If What to Expect represents the best tearjerking laugh-machine that Hollywood can birth, it's probably time to get those story ideas implanted in vitro. Full review.

Total Film (UK)

Its overview of the baby experience is obscured by a family-values lens – no single/same-sex parents - resulting in an awful ensemble comedy to complete that "Valentine's Day" / "New Year's Eve" box-set, complete with sexist clichés. Full review.