Nine Months
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Movie Reviews of Nine Months
Movie Review: 9 Mos is cute and fun, but also annoying and unrealistic.
Summary: 3 Stars
I like Hugh Grant. His facial expressions and exasperated Englishman's blathering is hilarious. I also adore Joan Cusack and Tom Arnold is a riot in this movie. Robin Williams is a bit over the top as the OB/GYN, but when isn't Robin over the top?!The birth scene at the end irritates the heck out of me just because it's so silly and so unrealistic. The race to the hospital scene is just as ridiculous, but it does offer some laughs. Overall this is definitely a must see.
Movie Review: Sweet and Fun Movie With a Good Message
Summary: 3 Stars
Although this film is a little corny at parts, and the narrative is SO 90s... The plot, humor, cast, music and development win out and serve up an ultimately heart warming flick with a pro-life message.Movie Review: An Amusing Distraction
Summary: 2 Stars
The Question:
How can Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore, Robin Williams, Tom Arnold, Jeff Goldbloom and Joan Cusack all be in the same movie and it is still not incredible?
The Answer:
Predictable writing, easy puns, rehashed characters and less than inspired performances.
I am a fan of Grant, Williams and Goldbloom, but in "Nine Months" I saw the same personalities they have in many movies.
Grant was the same cute, surprised, humble and step-behind Brit. It is a great personality, and appropriate for the movie, but he was given so little good material to work with that I could barely muster a smile. His struggle with leaving youth behind to take on the responsibilities of fatherhood asks important questions, but the screenwriters used formulas rather than insight to create the conundrum's complexities. It felt as if no real fathers were involved in scripting.
Unlike Danny Kaye, Robin Williams is unable to replay the naive foreign speaker with freshness every time we see him. His doctor sounded like a mix of Dr. Nick Riviera on the Simpsons and Williams as the Russian in "Moscow Over the Hudson." His lines were largely mispronunciations of female anatomy. The writers overdid the gag, and it grew tiresome by the movie's end.
Goldbloom was the diehard bachelor who loves his independence. He is philosophical about in that Goldbloom way. It gives depth to the movie as he serves as a vehicle for Grant's conscience. Goldbloom is living and promoting the lifestyle Grant must leave to be a good father. Again, Goldbloom presents in a way that will remind viewers of him in "Jurassic Park" and "The Fly."
Moore is shown as a stereotypical mom-to-be. The emotional mood swings are followed by lines heard in every movie involving childbirth. As a stronger part of her character, when considering abortion, she knows that she cannot after experiencing the life inside her. The writers didn't let it become a political or even moral dilemma, but let the story tell itself here.
I liked the movie for its easiness. Despite the routine performances by otherwise incredible actors, and the flaccid writing and directing, it turns out to be a nice, pleasing movie. I would not buy "Nine Months," but I would rent it. I watched it while working on a puzzle and found it to be an amusing distraction.
Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com
Movie Review: The Gestation Period Seemed More Like Nine Years
Summary: 2 Stars
The term "uneven" comedy could have been coined to describe "Nine Months." The first two-thirds of the movie (with the exception of Robin Williams' scene in which he plays an unbelievably inept Russian OB/GYN doctor) is the typical romantic comedy stuff you'll find on any average or below-average sitcom. Hugh Grant fusses and frets about being a father and showing commitment when his lover Julianne Moore gets pregnant. She dumps him, and he tries to win her back, the result of which is a foregone conclusion. The last one-third of the movie, however, is energetic and is played for all-out farce as Hugh drives Julianne to the hospital for her delivery, creating havoc (and presumably enough lawsuits to bankrupt him into the 22nd Century, not that this is ever mentioned) along the way, but do the laughs generated excuse the first two-thirds of the film? I imagine certain women who enjoy sitcoms and pregnancy might find this movie heart-warming and "real", but the rest of us will be stuck with not overly convincing characterizations, despite an overall talented cast. Joan Cusack, as usual, rises above the material, and Robin Williams in a manic world all his own as the nutty doctor generates laughs. Jeff Goldblum gives an impeccable performance in what is generally a thankless role as Hugh's best friend. And between you and me, Tom Arnold (and NOT between you and I), please buy an English grammar book and learn the difference between objective and subjective case pronouns. (I don't entirely blame the screenwriter/director Columbus, who might buy one as well, since I've seen Mr. Arnold butcher English on talk shows.) As for Arnold's performance, he does the best he can do with a weak script that calls for him to be callous and obnoxious one moment and incredibly sensitive the next. Julianne Moore, one of our best actresses, tries heroically to bring emotional truth to her stereotypical role, and Hugh Grant relies on his stuttering boyish charm to breeze through the mishmash, but his tearful moments are less convincing, but how much can the poor guy do when he's working with a cardboard cutout?Movie Review: When propaganda goes awry
Summary: 2 Stars
I have to hope that this movie's makers really had good intentions, because that's the only thing that would save this movie. Perhaps, all they wanted was to create a funny light comedy that would show, without too much stress, one man's conversion from bachelorhood to parenthood (bypassing the marriage stage, for the most part) with they-lived-happily-ever-after finale.
What they ended up making is a pitiful, painful set of recycled stereotypes of manhood and womanhood; a story from the land where men are infintile, women long-suffering and sacrificial, and child psychologists can't cure themselves. Suffice to say that Julianne Moore's character has to bear her child almost to birth to be proposed to by the child's father. Apparently, while she was an inactive baby machine she didn't deserve such honor. In his good turn, Hugh Grant's character (the child's father) only feels the warm glow of fatherhood when he's told that the baby is a boy. You should see his face change from harried to beautified when the doctor delivers the news.
Whatever you do, don't let your kids watch this until they're out of college and can think for themselves.