What to Expect When You're Expecting

[elski]

I enjoyed it. It's better than the likes of New Years Eve/ Valentines Day although one totally pointless and unbelievable couple were Cameron Diaz & Mr Schuester, it could have done without them in it.

Chris Rock in another great dad role so soon after 2 Days in New York and a cameo from Cheryl Cole!

[steve9872]

Just back from the Telegraph screening in Leeds - 12 people including me.

[brettie]

there was about 18 in my screening, mostly white haired, two younger than 20.

actually liked the cameron diaz role, gave film a bit of life, should have left out jenny from the block though.

[elski]

our SFF screening was full

[Horseknight]

Not up to my expectation but did have some laugh. The theatre was 90% full and smells stale, or should I say stink...

[Yinster]

Our screening in Glasgow was almost full. A young couple decided to bring their toddler with them Why O Why????

Anyhoo I enjoyed the film. It was better than what I expected from "What To Expect When You Are Expecting". A mixed mashed of stars and stories to try to interlink each other. Took me ages to recognise Alex as Karl from Love Actually.

OH loved it but then I think the film was aimed at her. 7/10 cos the funny bits were really funny.

[jojojoanne]

I saw this tonight at Greenwich, with my two boys who really liked it. It was a nice film. Easy to watch. The cinema wasn't full.

[Diane65]

Pretty much what I expected, light hearted rom com which I really enjoyed. Perfect after a day at work.
Sorry to akh43 and Betty Botter for having to dash off to do my walk before it got dark (I'm not scared of the dark but its a lonely road I walk down so prefer to do it in daylight) 7/10

[kevinknapman]

Really had no interest in seeing this as it looked exactly like the kind of film I would go out of my way to avoid but I think the relative lack of free films for me recently is responsible for my decision to go and see it. Wish I'd listened to my initial instinct as this was pretty terrible.

Tonally misjudged with an uneven and uncomfortable mix of comedy and seriousness. Fatal in it's hospital set climax, where it really doesn't work. Add to that a whole host of unlikeable characters which again makes the end hard to stomach. The Cameron Diaz character in particular was vile and Matthew Morrison's was barely any more likeable, so much so that being asked to find it heartwarming at the end was too much to ask. Not all the characters were unlikeable but none of them were well written at all which made it incredibly hard to care.

Salvation could have come in the form of the dad's group with some decent comic actors on screen but even that didn't really work and was as predictable as the rest of the film. So we got the cynical dads at the beginning who worshipped the good looking guy who could do pull-ups with one arm and went jetsetting around the world sleeping with loads of attractive women because he represented the life they wish they could live. Predictably though, you end up with them giving little speeches about how they wouldn't want it any other way and love their life. Yawn. Worse still was the dubious running gag of Chris Rock's accident prone kid constantly falling over and getting hit in the head with a full can of beer then falling down some steps (oh stop my aching sides). Adding insult to injury, Rodrigo Santoro's supposedly likeable dad-soon-to-be refers to him as a 'spaz'. Oh is that an okay thing to call a small child now? Although I was slightly amused by the fact that Thomas Lennon was married to his Reno 911! co-star Wendi McLendon-Covey.

The 'comedy' it get's out of overweight people was pretty dodgy too. Laugh at the fatties sliding along the floor, snigger at Elizabeth Banks assistant as she wears a dress too small for her that results in her breasts bulging out. Oh fat people, you so funny. The contrived ways they had the characters cross paths was also laughable. Especially the way they get the Anna Kendrick and Chace Crawford to the hospital at the end. The fact they also expect us to accept that a woman can get pregnant at exactly the same time as both her daughter-in-law and her cousin was incredible. Throw in a lot of vomit-inducing platitudes about the importance of family and finding your 'glow' and you end up with a film that I found more offensive than The Dictator (which I saw beforehand) for many reasons.

So clearly WTEWYE was really not a film for me, a bunch of fairly unlikeable characters acting in an often obnoxious manner resulting in unearned sentimentality at the end. Oh and it was way too long. At one point Dennis Quaid's character refers to himself as being a 'shit sandwich' of a father. Well WTEWYE is a 'shit sandwich' of a film....without the bread*

*I may have stolen that joke from an old album review

[Beate]

LOL - oh dear. You might have enjoyed Iron Sky more. It was a different kind of offensive.