Junior

Day 164 - 6/13/09 - Movie #163

BEFORE: (Sigh) Let's get this over with....

THE PLOT: As part of a fertility research project, a male scientist agrees to carry a pregnancy in his own body.

AFTER: I'm sorry, I'm just not impressed by the "miracle" of watching a man give birth. I'm guessing the target audience for this film was pregnant women who want to see a man go through nausea, cramps, food cravings and sensitive nipples, just like they did, as some kind of revenge fantasy. The MacGuffin here is a drug called expectane that keeps Ah-nold's body from rejecting the embryo - why let the absence of a womb or a placenta get in the way of the plot?

At least there were a couple of cameos, like Aida Turturro (Janice from "The Sopranos") as a fertility nurse, a mulleted Christopher Meloni (from Law + Order: SVU) as an expectant father, and comedian John Pinette as a Big & Tall clothing salesman (nice casting...). Emma Thompson seems lost as a loopy, clumsy scientist that falls for Arnold - even she can't save this.

RATING: 2 out of 10 frozen embryos