Ultimate manly man Arnold Schwarzenegger learns what it's like to be an expectant mother in director Ivan Reitman's high-concept comedy. Schwarzenegger plays Dr. Hess, a medical researcher working on a revolutionary drug to help mothers carry endangered infants to term. When government regulations prevent Dr. Hess from testing the drug through normal channels, his partner Dr. Arbogast (Danny DeVito) develops an unorthodox solution: they will steal a female egg and implant it in Hess, who will carry the child himself. Predictably, much of the subsequent humor centers on the incongruous sight of the muscular Schwarzenegger undergoing the trials and tribulations of pregnancy, from morning sickness to labor pangs. Emma Thompson returns to her comic roots and provides romantic interest as an incorrigibly clumsy but intelligent scientist who catches on to Hess' deception. Reitman, Schwarzenegger, and DeVito had previously had a hit with Twins (1988), which revolved around a similarly ludicrous medical premise, but they failed to repeat that film's success here, as audiences largely ignoring the film and reviewers criticized the humor as disappointingly obvious. Bonus Materials on the DVD include a featurette, the original theatrical trailer, and a section of cast filmographies.
Customer Rating
5
best movie ever made
on November 26, 2007
Posted by: edaog
this movie is about a male doctor / scientist that acsidentily gets pregnet. the way he gets pregnet is he was working on this speacial drug and belive it or not there was this monkey that they were doing test on and when he wasent looking the monkey poored the drug in his drink and then he drank it and got pregnet. in my appion this is the best movie ever!
What's great about it: if you like comady andand a litle drama then this movie is for you
What's not so great: if you dont like babies or pepole giving birht ten this movie isnt for you