In 7 words or less: Women get pregnant and give birth
What's it all About? It's one of those. You know the ones, where there's lots of different couples but somehow all their characters cross over at one point. You know the kind. It's my favourite kind actually, I can't get enough of a good 'oooo look, look they're coming into contact, their lives are crossing over! They're all connected, whoppeeee!'
.... Anyway. It's about couples having babies. There's a few cliches thrown in for good measure here: the 'adoption couple', the 'accident' couple, the 'been trying for ages and it's a miracle couple'. Then there's the weird Cameron Diaz storyline who's a celebrity personal trainer having a fling with a dancer on a reality celeb dance show who knocks her up and causes quite the celeb goss plus there's the rich racing guy who has a girlfriend half his age who are having twins.
So there they all are, babies are on the way. So off we go on a little journey with them as they try to work out how they feel, cope with pregnancy, plan for the rest of their lives and generally all go a little bit mental. A reflection of real pregnancies no less.
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Best bits? There's a scene where one of the preggos (sorry for lack of specifics here, all the bumps started to merge into one), has to do a presentation at an event. Her aim is to get on stage and talk about the 'the pregnancy glow' to lots of emotionally needy pregnant ladies. Moments before she wets herself, has to strip off, shove on a unicorn jumper and farts on stage proclaiming that the 'glow' is indeed a load of bullshit. Ha. If you've ever been pregnant or been on the man side of a pregnant lady and been fortunate enough to experience 'the true beauty of pregnancy' then a part of you will just love that scene.
I also quite loved 'the dudes', a group of dads who meet up at the park loaded with babies and buggies and stomp around like they are off to battle talking about the parenting errors and sticking close to their mantra of 'don't judge me!' Chris Rock has a nice little role here and quite possibly the cutest on screen son ever. Arrrrrr... come on, everyone loves a cute on screen father/son relationship (Will Smith and Jayden will be quivering in their high tops).
Did it make you think thoughts? As a mum of a little one myself I'm going to be honest - it's tough to watch anything about parenting and babies without wailing like a banshee and it did bring a few tears of joy and pride to my eyes plus that feeling when you clench your fist, put your hand on your heart and think 'I love my family, I'll make everything perfect for us, they are so magical...' etc etc. I know, I know it's sad isn't it, but they say the hormones will settle back, but in the spirit of the film let me tell you this - THEY NEVER DO!!! I imagine however, that if you were a childless male aged between 17 - 29 watching this, I'm fairly sure you'd have no thoughts, zilch. Possibly 'that was a bit shit' but even that might be a stretch.
Would you watch it again? Yes! I demand it on blu-ray to pop in every time I'm feeling broody! I'm telling you there are simply not enough films made on this subject! Quite clearly when they came up with the concept and the research team did a representation of the target market they just drew a big picture of my face.
Rating (out of 100%): I'm giving it a 'bouncy baby' 72% - it's a film about having babies, there's little scope for narrative genius but what a Sunday night treat!
