Nothing Much to Expect in 'What to Expect When You're Expecting'.

It is becoming a Hollywood trend that studios gather a handful of gleaming stars to buff up a thin and weak narrative and hope that the audience will not notice this. The latter American hit, which I have not yet seen, 'Think Like a Man' is of resemblance since it is populated with many stars too and it is, too, based on a non-fiction book. In an early moment, the formula doesn't work, and in an eventual one, it is early tiring to hold up a "blockbuster" firm. Sometimes, it saddens your author to realize that Hollywood is cycled at the hands of the scent of money. Films are now often done for money and not entertainment anymore.

Albeit handful performers were extremely charismatic, 'What to Expect' is enveloped in an easily turned-down convention that leaves the audience with nothing much to expect, at all.

In 'What to Expect When You're Expecting', a conventional and at the same time busy plot thickens. A couple played by Cameron Diaz and Glee’s Matthew Morrison is expecting a baby. The former is a TV fitness instructor and the latter is a reality dance show star. There’s a photographer played by Jennifer Lopez who is as if desperate, yells to his husband (Rodrigo Santoro) that she wants to have a baby. Elizabeth Banks effectively plays Wendy, a pregnancy guru who seemed to know only a thing or two about pregnancy. Her husband (Ben Falcone) has parenting issues too.

As you may have experienced, it is inevitably smothering to follow ALL of these events at a same time. To even accentuate more this flaw, that as if adapted as a thematic gimmick, there’s a Gossip Girl dude (Chace Crawford) and an Anna Kendrick playing Krabby Patty chef rivals waving a war against one another. However, if this is what the movie has kept doing, probably, the two chef rival’s part was the most effectively entertaining. Sure, it was still fun watching Diaz and Lopez under crazy situations, but really Crawford and Kendrick just gleam almost outshining the two tested charmer darlings.

The plausible act is, when a school of dads come walking, literally in to the movie. Chris Rock automatically sparkles with this moment as him and the rest of the dads hit downright funny lines and sometimes sensible quotations (and the fact that I have no idea on why did I just say that, bothers me).

Too busy and at the same time conventional, ‘What to Expect When You’re Expecting’ is a film that is paperweight on sense that almost result a parenting tripe, thanks to the Krabby Patty pan-grilling courtesy: Chace Crawford and Anna Kendrick. You two are the most enjoyable in the film.