What to Expect When You're Expecting Reviews

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• unfunny set pieces

  by Josh Bell [Las Vegas Weekly ]

• there are five occasionally intersecting Atlanta-set storylines, all of which are pitched at the level of a bad sitcom

  by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News ]

• the movie hits authentic notes of anxiety and joy

  Review rate : B by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]

• the film similarly fails to tell a coherent story, create believable characters, or establish any sense of place

  by Eric Hynes [Village Voice ]

• the film features a lot of "my hormones are making me crazy" humor for the women and "this is too much responsibility" scenes for the men

  by Colin Covert [Minneapolis Star Tribune ]

• some of the pregnancies are played for laughs, others are depicted more melodramatically. It's a mishmash of mediocrity

  by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic ]

• rather than the engaging enlightenment of the source, the film becomes bloated by confusion

  by Betsy Sharkey [Los Angeles Times ]

• morning sickness afflicts most of the potential mommies. For me, the movie itself triggered the vomiting

  by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]

• intertwines these unconvincing characters' stories in a ham-fisted style

  by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

• in the end, "What to Expect," isn't an inspired movie, but a manufactured one, but one with some laughs and some moments

  by Mick LaSalle [San Francisco Chronicle ]

• everything that happens in the multiple story lines is entirely predictable; the only question is when

  by Glenn Kenny [MSN Movies ]

• at least, and the movie is as pleasant as it is harmless

  by Ty Burr [Boston Globe ]

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