Life As We Know It (2010)

Dreadfully Boring

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

When I first purchased the DVD of "Life as We Know It", I was very turned-off by the sleeve of the cover. The photo shows Josh Duhamel standing straight up with a baby sporting colour-coordinated diapers and are in a similar stance slurping bottles towards their mouths while Katherine Heigl gives chase towards them. But then I had a change of heart when you learn that you can't judge a book by its cover alone, so i thought I'll give it a whirl. Sure when parents want to raise kids, they understand the positions they put themselves into and know the sacrifices and consequences they they must must face and the loving and nurturing they must provide in order to ensure their kids live a happy and caring life. Socialization will have to be minimal, assistance from extended family members and friends would be beneficial, and that setting good examples are the essential tools for raising a child. But what happens when a child is raised by unexpected parents who have never raised kids before or ever had any intentions until now? "Life As we Know It" is about a couple who now have to take the initiative of raising a baby unexpectedly and the trials and tribulations that come with the little package of joy. After the death of baby Sophie Novak's parents (Hayes MacArthur and Christina Hendricks), godparents Holly Berenson and Eric Messer (Heigl and Duhamel) have to step up to take the difficult task to raising Sophie (triplets Alexis, Brooke and Brynn Clagett) while trying to co- exist after their blind date goes bad which resulted in one can't standing each others. They never expected such events to happen as they had to hold aside their plans and their respected career agendas to raising this child which turns their life in circles. This may come across as a standard romantic comedy, but in this one there is a bit of a twist where two polar opposites struggle to raise a child while also fighting to set their differences aside. The love of a child can bring two people together or at best strive to inject positive vibes while providing essential support so that the child can live a happy and fulfilled life knowing there's people out there that love her. Though the comedy stems from the hardships of Holly and Eric raising little Sophie, the other comical idiosyncrasies stem from the legal processes, the overwhelming house mortgages and further career plans getting pushed aside.Performance wise, Katherine Heigl is still continuing her type- casted roles in her bubble as she once again is seen portraying hyper self-absorbed control freak domineering female characters towards their handsome costars. The key component to making romantic comedies sell is we have to have leading character ooze with some likability towards their characters. The script by Ian Deitchman and Kristin Rusk Robinson makes no denial that by having Duhamel as the leading male character, his charismatic manliness will surely make anyone's heart melt. The character that really makes your heart melt has to go to little Sophie played the by the Clagett trips. Every time they fill up the screen around them, the filmmakers know the right lighting and camera focuses to make you just say "Ahhh". It's hard to get children to act a certain way on screen, but director Greg Berlanti and company magically gives us that right amount of cuteness so that our leading stars have a legitimate reason to put every plan on hold to nurture this child. Sure this movie is formulaic with the familiar characters we've seen in this genre, "Life as We Know It" is a nice little comedy that is not memorable, but a fun film to watch on a rainy day. It's a quite innocent with subtle funny moments, though nothing really special. It makes you think hard if you're put in a rapid situation where responsibilities have become more mandatory than one could anticipate. Though I don't think Radiohead's "Creep" is a perfect choice for a lullaby.

Yet another movie with low ratings that I do not understand, nor do I wish to understand. I don't care why people didn't like it. All that matters to me, is that I liked it. It's the only thing that counts. Just because people don't like a certain movie, doesn't mean it's not good. And I know that the general population voting that it's not a great movie, usually means it's not, but you may like it.This movie is about Holly and Messer getting thrown into an impossible situation. Years ago they were set up by their two best friends, but the date didn't go well. They spend the next few years having to interact with each other, for the sake of their friends. But when their best friends, Peter and Alison, die in a car crash and they are appointed custody of their young daughter, Sophie. Holly and Messer try to share the responsibilities of parenthood, but at times think it wasn't the best decision being named guardians.Recommended for: Katherine Heigl fans, comedy fans, romantic comedy fans.Best part of the movie: When Messer and Holly work things out.Worst part of the movie: The poop scene.Overall, I give this movie an 8 out of 10, which in my ratings book is: Awesome.

Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl) is the owner of an Atlanta bakery. Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel) is a TV sports technician for the Atlanta Hawks. Their best friends Peter and Alison had set them up on a blind date but it went horribly wrong. When their friends die in a car accident, the two bickersons has to raise their baby girl together.It's not a new premise to force kids on single people. It's the go to premise for lots of gags. It's maybe the unoriginality of it all that devalues most of the comedy. It's been done before and by better comedians.Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel are reasonable romantic leads but this movie desperately needs a real comedian as one of the leads to do the jokes. It was not funny even before the deaths turned it heavy. As a romance, it worked well enough but as a comedy, it fails utterly.

This is not the worst movie in romantic comedy, but its close. What a moralistic movie! Typical US at the worst. A man and a woman that have nothing in common and done like each other move together in a big house since their best friends dies. And off course they get the responsibility as parents for this baby. And they find out that they in fact not only like each other. They are perfect for each other... And a perfect doctor that she before would had loved a relationship with is easily dumped since the passion in a fight is not yet there... The "thing" that they get together as a couple just because they take care of a kid annoyed me, and i had problem watching the last 20 minute of the movie. It was therefor too long. The actors do a okay work. But if you as me hate "moralistic movies" where a child brings together people that are too different - then never see this movie.