What To Expect When You’re Expecting (2012) 7/10

Starring : Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Banks, Chace Crawford, Brooklyn Decker, Ben Falcone, Anna Kendrick, Matthew Morrison, Dennis Quaid, Chris Rock, Rodrigo Santoro
Director : Kirk Jones
Running Time : 110 mins

Celebrity fitness guru Jules Baxter (Diaz) finds her world turned upside down when she discovers she is pregnant. Baby photographer Holly (Lopez) would love nothing more than to have kids but can’t. Wendy Cooper (Banks) is over the moon when, after two years of trying, she finally falls pregnant, but her much younger step-mother-in-law Skyler (Decker) falls pregnant at the same time and steals her thunder. And Rosie Brennan (Kendrick) finds life hard after she loses her baby.

This wasn’t as bad as I was expecting, but it was still one of those annoying ensemble formulaic comedies that Hollywood churns out at least once a year. The cast do an okay job dealing with an uninspired script that once again appears to be a series of movies without enough substance to sustain individual movies, but there were some funny moments that were well balanced with more somber moments that did manage to keep this interesting from start to finish.

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