Dorathen Better Late Then Never
Claire Dunne One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Portia Hilton Blistering performances.
Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
katheliz Even the scenery of San Francisco can't save this movie. Among the unimaginative episodes is a nonsensical night-time race across the city that results in several personal injuries who are loaded into the car along with an hysterical laboring Julianne Moore. At least if it had been daytime, we could have enjoyed the hills of the city and some of its architecture. The movie is formulaic. The women are whiny and manipulative. The men are immature and clueless. There's only one real adult, but she has a minor role. There's a pack of dreadful children who remain uncivilized and don't improve. There's a stereotyped foreign obstetrician. We're fed varied misinformation about pregnancy and childbirth. Newborns are played by two-month-old babies right there in the delivery room. There are three major actors in this film: their talents are wasted. And need I add that Hugh Grant plays a child psychologist who has no idea how to do his job and appears unaware of that fact. This is supposed to be humorous. There is a small plus: the closing credits include baby photos of the six main characters. Too little, too late.
Robert W. Nine Months was always one of my little guilty pleasures. Its not exactly brilliant and its entirely by the book and simple but has a little charm and is easy to watch. The film does have a great comedic cast and everyone seems to work really well together. I was a little surprised at how low this film scores and also some of the harsh reviews. At the very least its very entertaining. The pacing of the film is great, there is lots of emotional moments and I like it because there is a great balance of ying and yang to it meaning girls will love the heart and romance and guys will enjoy the male presence in the film too. Its just zany fun. Now I it I'm a bit of a sucker for really good physical comedy and this film has it in spades. I'm not sure there has been a comedy since that uses that kind of comedy antics to make you laugh and it does it so well in my opinion. Now despite the fact that the first 3/4 of the film is simple and straight forward the last climatic scene of this movie is pure comedy gold. It is a riot watching this couple give birth to their son. Its antics unlike anything else out there and easily one of my favourite scenes in a film.Hugh Grant had a great career for a long time. He was King of the romantic comedies and the likable everyman. He is quite good in this playing a little bit stuck up but a guy who really tries. He's just very likable and you want to be his buddy and you understand him and he leads the cast well. His character doesn't exactly get a lot of depth but he pulls it off. Julianne Moore is decent as his loving girlfriend who gets pregnant. I wouldn't say she really stands out in the film, this is really more about Grant but she plays her part well and they have good chemistry. Tom Arnold and Joan Cusack are the stereotypical "best friend" roles although Arnold and Grant have this fun rivalry that really is a great part of the movie. Arnold was very good at being the obnoxious buddy type role and he and Cusack are really great together. The four of them are literally the reason to watch this film. Jeff Goldblum has an unfortunately small role as Grant's buddy who is a womanizer but has life lessons to teach. Goldblum is great but the role is too small. And then...the incomparable, much missed, comedy genius...Mr. Robin Williams. God I loved this man. No one did comedy like he did. This is Williams at his best. He's a neurotic, scared, Russian doctor who has never actually delivered a baby. His one liners are spot on and his physical comedy is unbelievable. He is drop dead hilarious in this film.Honestly, Chris Columbus is a genius in so many ways. He does these mainstream, almost typical cookie-cutter drama/comedies but they're also just incredibly entertaining. His films are easy to watch with great characters and he always has a great cast behind him. I wouldn't say Nine Months is one of his best but it certainly showcases the kind of film he is great at. This is just one of those films that you have to go in with the right expectations and just sit back and enjoy it. I say this a lot but people take movies like this too seriously. Sometimes (in fact most times) movies should be simple and fun and just entertain you and Nine Months absolutely does that. My beautiful wife and I watched this tonight and she is just about eight months pregnant so we got to laugh at the idea of what giving birth might mean for us. Its just fun people!! Enjoy it. 8.5/10
ComedyFan2010 What is right is to produce 4 of incredibly annoying, rude, out of control brats and become the kind of people everyone find annoying because they are nothing but parents anymore. At least this is the message of this movie.This movie is all about cliché gender stereotypes which are equally insulting to both men and women. Men are the ones who act like little babies staring fights in toy stores and be all terrified about pregnancy. And women are annoying bitches with a stick up their bum who don't like fun and are incredibly baby crazy. This is all they want, babies!!! And of course if you want to have a baby you have to "grow up". This means abandon your 16 year old cat. Very disgusting to see a movie promoting such thing, treating animals as objects that can be given away whenever you don't feel like it. I know some reading this will say: "But this is just a mooooooviiiiiieeee.". Well, yes it is, and i am aware that no cat was harmed while filming it. But at the same time: how many hysterical preggos got rid of their poor pets because they watched it and got scared about a "disease".When it comes to what i discussed before: gender stereotyping. Some comedies can get away with it, when they are funny. But this one can't even be qualified as a real comedy. Way too much cheese in it to be funny.And when they get funny sometimes they go way too far and become more than a comedy but some slapstick. Which doesn't have to be bad, actually my favorite part of this movie is the trip to the hospital. But a slapstick is good when it is a slapstick, and not mainly a child promoting, non-parents shaming melodrama.I think the actors are good, but this didn't help the fact that I hated the characters and all the movie. The only exception could be Robin Williams.Can't really give this movie a good rating. A good cast and 2 scenes which I liked can't make it up for the fact that the rest of the movie was very bad.
Jackson Booth-Millard The title when I heard sounded like a pretty obvious premise, and with a good cast list I thought I wouldn't mind it, from director Chris Columbus (Home Alone, Mrs. Doubtfire, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone). Basically child psychiatrist Samuel Faulkner (Hugh Grant) and ballet teacher Rebecca Taylor (Julianne Moore) have been boyfriend and girlfriend for five years, and never thought to commit to each other, i.e. marriage and kids. But things are about to change when Rebecca reveals that she is pregnant, and Samuel is panicking at the thought of being a father, but he is trying too hard to go along with what she wants. The pressures of fatherhood are made even worse with the constant irritation of encounters with the overbearing Dwyers, Marty (Tom Arnold) and also pregnant Gail (Joan Cusack), and some confusing advice from his single artist friend Sean Fletcher (Jeff Goldblum). Samuel and Rebecca go to see the doctor replacing the one they had in mind to do the delivery, the Russian and not very experienced Dr. Kosevich (Robin Williams), and this doesn't do any favours for Samuel either. When he misses another of the many scans they were meant to do together, Rebecca decides that Samuel is not involved enough in the pregnancy and knows he is not keen on the idea at all, so she leaves him. Alone, Samuel does watch the ultrasound video of his baby son growing inside his partner, at for the first time, he feels something for the new life he has created. After getting his head together, Samuel realises he loves Rebecca too much to let her go, and he finally feels confident enough to have a baby, and of course that is the point when her water breaks. A rush to the hospital causes some accidents along the way, a few people get injured and are forced to get in the car to go there as well, but they make it. They are not happy to see Dr. Kosevich again as the one to do the delivery, but as the only doctor who can, they, and the Dwyers right next to them have no choice. In the end, after the squabbles and the complaining from both the males and females, the two babies are delivered successfully, the Dwyers have another daughter, and Rebecca and Samuel are happy together with their baby son. Also starring Mia Cottet as Lili and Joey Simmrin as Truman. Just before the release Grant was caught with Hollywood prostitute Divine Brown, but I don't think it marred his career whatsoever, in this he still puts on the modern Cary Grant thing he brought to Four Weddings. Moore is reliable as Grant's pregnant other half, Arnold is a little annoying, Cusack is alright, Goldblum has his moments, and Williams makes the most as the manic obstetrician. The film is layered with some mild laughs, it has all the usual sentimental stuff involved for the baby premise, and the script could have used a tiny bit more work, not such a bad comedy. Okay!
