What to Expect When You're Expecting

“What to Expect When You’re Expecting” is a film based on the successful best seller of the same name by author Helen Murkoff. Not content with letting the accolades remain in the literary property area, some producers (e.g. Mike Medavoy et.al) had the idea of casting Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Mathew Morrison, Elizabeth Banks  and others in a film supposedly sharing the trials and tribulations of expectant Moms and reluctant and anxious Dads. Directed by Kirk Jones and written by Shauna Cross and Heather Hoch, the movie simply doesn’t work. The 110 minutes of actual screen time seemed longer than the 9 months each of these ladies had to carry their respective offspring. Discombobulated and awkward in its editing, acting and plot, this film gets just one star and, even then, I feel overly generous in awarding it.  I guess the answer to what to expect from “What to Expect…….”is a loss of time, money and the inconvenience of having to travel to the theater to suffer them.. No pregnancy could ever seem longer or more uncomfortable than watching this cinematic nightmare…  .and thinking about the film the next day will almost certainly guarantee you “morning sickness”.