Nine Months
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Movie Reviews of Nine Months
Movie Review: Hilarious!
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is fresh and funny! You will be rolling in laughter!Movie Review: NOT BAD!
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie was funny but some of the humor seemed forced.Movie Review: If it's not one thing, it's your mother.
Summary: 3 Stars
I ask you again. Where has this style of comedy gone? I applaud director Chris Columbus for keeping the spirit behind this film alive for so long, but when everyone else goes the way of sexual humor and bathroom jokes, there is only so much you can do. I miss this type of comedy. This film used to be on my top Ten List back in 1995. I used to watch it over and over again, never getting enough of Robin Williams and Tom Arnold (is that blasphemy now?). They were comic geniuses at the peak of their careers. Everything just seemed to fit into place with this film. The story was unique and personable, the humor was a cut above and the characters ... well ... the characters were ... decent.
As I watch this film now, older, wiser and chalk full of more films, I think that is my only gripe about the film was the characters. There were some that worked perfectly. Goldblum can do wrong, Williams is a stitch (doctor humor), and Arnold seemed to carry his own weight (ok, I honestly will stop now). The only two I had trouble with were Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore. All right, I will give Grant the credit that this was one of his first big Hollywood films, but he just couldn't seem to hit his cues as well. When I was younger, I didn't notice it as much as I did this time around. He was trying to do Python when he should have just been himself. Not to worry Grant fans, he gets better with age (minus Edge of Reason). What was Julianne Moore doing in this movie? I don't know how I missed it before, but she really doesn't act in this movie. Her face gives some expressions, but her body does nothing but stand there. It was really obvious this viewing than it was nearly 10 years ago. Looking back, it wasn't one of her early films, so maybe she just wasn't comfortable. I remember when she tried humor in Laws of Attraction, she was really out of her element there. Perhaps it just isn't her genre. Thankfully, Williams, Goldblum, and Arnold round out the cast that conveniently anchor this film to the ground.
Do you know what I loved most about this film? The physical comedy. The fallings, the fake fights, and the awkward hits all seemed to fit very well in this film. The timing was exact and the laughs could still be heard from our living room. While I think in another ten years this film will be hard to watch, it was good to see it one last time before it died. It isn't a landmark 90s comedy, but what it does it does very well. Columbus was King of this genre, with other hits like Adventures in Babysitting and Home Alone, he redefined and built his name upon comedy. Whenever I think of films from the early 90s that stand out, I have no doubt that Columbus has his hand somewhere in it. His work behind the camera in Nine Months is no exception. He seems to be a step ahead of the actors, always knowing where the camera should go and be placed so that he can capture the exact feeling of the actors. He is a genuine craftsman that could build a simple task and make it into a blockbuster.
Overall, I was still impressed with this film. While it didn't quite carry the same punch as it did when I watched it in 1995, it did make want to revisit some of Robin Williams's older films and laugh like I did when I was young. This is a genre that redefined an entire generation. This is my golden years of Hollywood, and it is good to see that years later, pulled from a Video Store vault, that it still has some of its momentum remaining. I cannot ask anything more than for you to check this film out when you have the chance. If anything for Robin Williams performance, but I have this deep feeling that you will enjoy even more.
Grade: *** out of *****
Movie Review: "You have a girl. Unless I cut the wrong cord"
Summary: 3 Stars
There are many other hilarious quotes in this movie, mainly from Robin Williams, in a fantastically Russian role. But most of them are way too rude, and Amazon would be no doubt getting their red pen out. And I'm not having that happen to my review.This movie is typically predictable, of this sort of chick-flick, women only film. With a lot of actors (Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore, Tom Arnold, Joan Cusack and Jeff Goldblum, the latter playing their usual kooky parts), you feel swamped by the stars, but yet, who is the true main star? Robin Williams. He is hilarious, as soon as he appears. The movie is worth watching for him alone, and you fill be in fits of laughter, by the finale, the double-labour scene.
For a guy who dumps his girlfriend, and then decides he wants her BACK, Samuel (Hugh Grant) doesn't seem to try to hard! But then again, neither does Rebecca. But then, I'd let Samuel do all the chasing personally! Jeff Goldblum plays his 'best friend', and manages to throw in any of his old nonsense (that makes sense to him, but to no one else) and it works in the script. I don't think so. He didn't have much to do in the movie, one minute he's telling Samuel to be with Rebecca, embrace fatherhood, and then he's telling him that he dumped his girlfriend because she wanted his "essence". Uh-huh. (Not necessarily in that order, but you know what I mean)
Tom Arnold plays a very over-the-top role, alongside his baby-making machine, played by Joan Cusack. Oh, I'm sorry, you mean that's his wife?! Could've fooled me! As Samuel so rightly says, you need a licence to drive a car, but anyone can become a parent, and sometimes a very lousy one. I'm not saying that Tom & Joan's character are lousy parents (there's not much interaction between them and the kids), it's just - she must have spent half her married life being pregnant!
Why was Hugh Grant given the main billing for this movie? To me, this will always be a Robin Williams. He's so funny, especially when he gets his words muddled, or says the completely wrong thing, and still manages a big cheesy grin. And the Russian accent never falters!
There's nothing in the way of extras, except a trailer. For once, I watched the trailer AFTER the movie (nyah nyah) - I've seen this movie so often, the trailer didn't particularly appeal to me. But then I noticed scenes that were obviously cut from the movie, IN the trailer! If you're gonna cut scenes from the movie people, take them OUT of the trailer too! It just ruins it. You see what could have been a potentially funny scene, but it's no longer there.
This is a terrific movie, although as one reviewer said, it's enough to put any guy over to the other side! But no film will put women off giving birth, because it's not real! Although it's hilariously funny!
Movie Review: Not bad, but they should have READ the book
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie does have its fun parts, and it is my favorite Julianne Moore film. Unfortunately, it contains a boatload of errors, and I find myself wondering if the English script was worked up by a cat-hater whose only knowledge of pregnancy came from old episodes of the Smurfs. There they are, toting copies of the venerable "What to Expect When You're Expecting," yet it's very clear that no one, especially the writers, has read the book. On pages 64 and 313, for instance, the book clearly states that active toxiplasmosis infections during pregnancy are rare, and serious defects as a result of the unlikely event of an active infection are even more rare. Also, the cat is 16 years old, and Sam & Rebecca have been together 5 years, so she's likely built up antibodies to it. Truth be to,d, she'd be at more risk from playing with potted plants than she would be from Sam's cat.
Her other assertions about cats are also way off the mark. Anyone who has ever had any pet and a baby at the same time knows it's common sense not to leave a baby alone with a pet. Cats and dogs could both squish a baby, and I certainly wouldn't want either licking my dishes.
Also, Rebecca must have missed a major chunk of the book when she cut off Sam just before they were about to get it on. If she had any doubts, a good gynecologist could show her a diagram of the female reproductive system. "Beck, there's a little somethin' there...it's called a cervix. And if you're still afraid the baby's gonna get a peep show, keep in mind that you have a mucous plug, and nothing short of a hoover or labor (preterm or term) could dislodge that puppy."
All righty, then, now that I've gotten that beef off of my chest, I did like it overall. 3 stars for story, 1 star for ignorance of the facts in spite of having so many darn enlightening props, and 5 stars for the scen where Marty and Sam beat up Arnie, which averages out to 3 stars. Watch it, but take their pregnancy "facts" with a very large grain of salt.