Hugh Grant's first Hollywood feature film was made a year after Four Weddings & A Funeral, and he co starred with Julianne Moore, who had been around awhile, appearing in small but significant roles in movies like 'Benny & Joon' and 'The Fugitive'. Tom Arnold, Joan Cusack and Jeff Goldblum are all here giving good support, but it's Robin Williams who steals the movie as a nervous Russain doctor.
Grant and Moore play a couple who have been in love for five happy years. Then she unexpectedly falls pregnant. She is happy about it, but he's horrified by the idea.
It's hard to root for Grant as the hero of the piece as he is a selfishly, arrogant, self centred cliché of an unwilling Dad to be. The fact that he keeps seeing Arnold and Cusack and their brood of disruptive kids only ads his horror. I liked Arnold and Cusack so much, I actually thought they could have had their own spin off movie! Something in the vein of 'National Lampoons Vacation' Likewise Williams Russain doctor. He gives the movie it's only real big laughs.
Something I need to point out, is Hans Zimmer's score, it is beautiful.
Sadly this movie suffers massively from it's predictability. Everybody knows how it will end, the supposed fun is supposed to come on the journey to the obvious happy conclusion. But it's just not there, there is very little charm here and it's the fault of Grant's character being so selfish. Admittedly if he was supportive from the get go, we would not have much of a movie.
Grant and Moore play a couple who have been in love for five happy years. Then she unexpectedly falls pregnant. She is happy about it, but he's horrified by the idea.
It's hard to root for Grant as the hero of the piece as he is a selfishly, arrogant, self centred cliché of an unwilling Dad to be. The fact that he keeps seeing Arnold and Cusack and their brood of disruptive kids only ads his horror. I liked Arnold and Cusack so much, I actually thought they could have had their own spin off movie! Something in the vein of 'National Lampoons Vacation' Likewise Williams Russain doctor. He gives the movie it's only real big laughs.
Something I need to point out, is Hans Zimmer's score, it is beautiful.
Sadly this movie suffers massively from it's predictability. Everybody knows how it will end, the supposed fun is supposed to come on the journey to the obvious happy conclusion. But it's just not there, there is very little charm here and it's the fault of Grant's character being so selfish. Admittedly if he was supportive from the get go, we would not have much of a movie.