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What To Expect When You're Expecting
The movie centers on five interconnected couples as they experience the thrills and surprises of having a baby, and realize that no matter what you plan for, life can be most times unpredictable.
30 October 1978, Fort Ord, California, USA
2 September 1970, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, USA
29 July 1980, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
7 February 1965, Andrews, South Carolina, USA
24 April 1972, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
5 July 1988, Van Nuys, California, USA
30 June 1983, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
12 April 1987, Kettering, Ohio, USA
12 September 1963, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
29 June 1971, New York, USA
February 04, 2013
What to Expect When You're Expecting provides a snapshot of contemporary anxieties about imminent parenthood, but it may be more worthwhile as a document for future pop culture scholars to use to understand what was trendy in 2012.
September 27, 2012
Provides good chuckles and heartfelt drama - paired with an equal amount of familiar gags and flat story ideas.
May 18, 2012
Patently contrived to deliver the safer side of pregnancy-related humor over the course of five tidily intersecting plot lines.
June 26, 2012
The highs, lows, unexpected joys and totally expected pains of pregnancy get a comprehensive going over in this consistently funny, warm-hearted ensemble comedy.
March 14, 2013
Diaz's plotline seems to revolve solely around an argument with Morrison over the merits of circumcision. She's pro-cut. He's fanatically anti-cut. Clearly, as is the film's editor.
September 15, 2012
What To Expect When You're Expecting delivers a stale plot, mostly underwritten characters and almost no joy. Expect little and you may not be entirely disappointed.
May 22, 2012
Bringing a child into the world is no laughing matter, and all involved seem to have done their level best to make things as mirthless as possible.
October 24, 2012
The charismatic cast (particularly Banks and Lopez) manage to find the humanity in their clichéd roles but they can't transcend all the surface-level schmaltz on display here.
May 18, 2012
Remember when advice books stayed on the shelves where they belonged?
May 18, 2012
Babies are cute and expectant parents often aren't. That kind of sums up What to Expect When You're Expecting.
May 24, 2012
Technically the genre isn't beneath contempt. But this movie is.
May 18, 2012
Director Kirk Jones and screenwriters Shauna Cross and Heather Hach consistently fall back on corny music and slow-motion to try to get laughs. Very little of this movie feels risky, or even frisky.