Lidia Draper
Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Ezmae Chang
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Freeman
This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
Hick_N_Hixville
Any movie released nowadays with the word "Miss" in the title referring to an unmarried woman, even when done as a play on word meaning, is either an angry gender political satire, or a sappy happy chick flick aimed squarely at frustrated single yuppie heterosexual women in the full heat of midlife baby panics. This movie is not a satire."Miss Conception" makes an interesting comparative double feature with "Teeth." The latter is a male homosexual nightmare fantasy, dressed up as pseudo feminist hokum, about the ultimate theoretical result of penile-vagina contact. .I have no idea how popular "Miss Conception" was in theaters. I had never heard of it until I saw it in a video store. I think, though, that unmarried, boyfriend-less mid thirty-something professional straight women too busy for "relationships," yet yearning for spawn, and a penis to provide it (or a turkey baster and a mail order cup of the goods), is a bigger audience than gay men and bitter lesbians watching a vagina bite off penises to validate their fears about returning to the yeasty maw that generated them, or satisfy unrequitable penis envy, respectively. For whatever reasons, nerdy gore loving teenage boys never really bit down on 'Teeth," probably because that movie's gay male director and writer infested the flick with too much yeasty pretension, and not enough potent gore."Miss Conception," to its credit for a movie of its type written by two women (presumably heterosexual), has no pretensions at all. It's a thoroughbred chick flick and makes no apologies for itself. There is nothing tentative about it, and the only guilt it seeks to induce is the guilty pleasure of its post feminist schlocky plot. That concerns a 34 year old successful business woman (who owns a construction company believe it or not) about to undergo a precocious menopause, and her frantic quest to mate when the last egg drops.After she visits a quack gynecologist who tells her that her next period will be her last one, she carefully plans how she will manage to impregnate herself, with typically improbable screwball results. A beautiful woman has four whole days to get bred, and all she can manage to land as prospective bedmates are gay men and her hunky foreman whose been rendered sterile by the mumps. Even her vial of mail order sperm winds up misfired by a turkey baster onto her 34th birthday cake in a really silly scene. Her last hope is her former boyfriend whom she really loves and wants to father her child. She dumped him earlier because he doesn't want kids, only now she makes one last attempt at getting his pee pee inside her unsheathed before time runs out. That turns out to be really hard because he goes to Ireland to shoot a movie, and will be gone the whole four days unless she can get him on the phone, and stop the bimbo female producer with him, and after him, from pulling out all her stops to make sure he never gets back in time to put in.This movie views as silly as a synopsis of the plot reads. Men should only see it if forced to by a woman they wish to enter, sheathed or not.
mihi64
This was a poor movie. Heather Graham did a very poor role. During the movie, i didn't even once feel her character. She acted like a psycho from the start to the very end. The soundtrack of the movie was plain and boring. The other actors were quite good and convincing. Mia Kirshner did a very good job as a supporting actress. Tom Ellis appeared seldom during the movie and his character was not properly developed. I also had the feel that there were some scenes cut from the movie. I believe that Heather Graham ruined the movie with her role. The movie is a comedy, but the only time when I laugh was when they did a scene with a cake(inspired from American Pie). Yes, I paid more on the popcorn than I did on the ticket. Comparing the value of the popcorn with the value of the movie, all I can say is that the popcorn worth every penny.
Mattias
I thought it was pretty good. The plot centers around a 34-year old woman who is about to hit menopause early. I've always felt that Heather Graham is an undervalued actress who could go far with the right material, eg. "Broken" (2007) but I think that the plot would have been more credible with a slightly older looking actress, Graham still looks like 25. Perhaps the scenes with Zack's adventures in Ireland and his ditzy production assistant wasn't really essential to the plot. I never really understood why Georgina fancies Zack at all when the chemistry and emotional depth between Georgina and her friend Clem appears to be much deeper. The incident with the sperm sample and the birthday cake felt very contrived.I noticed the frequent use of "Darling" and "Sweetie" which at times made the movie sound like a P.G. Wodehouse novel or an episode of "Absolutely Fabulous". Kudos to first time screen writer Camilla Leslie for making a new twist on the romantic comedy formula.
njtomiami
It was difficult to laugh at the supposed jokes, delivery and timing was really off. The only scene that caused me to laugh out loud was similar to a scene from "What about Mary" when Mary mistakenly uses a certain body fluid as hair gel.Why is the movie advertised as country of Orgin "Germany". It takes place in the UK with British and American actors. Nothing German here.Too many details are so unauthentic it was distracting, for example, our pretty petite lead character owns a construction company (more realistic if she was the secretary), the film production assistant has a Valley Girl accent (British accent would be more appropriate), The lead character is going though menopause at the age of 34 (at least make her 40 yrs old?). Pros about the movie: I enjoyed the character who played the macho construction guy. The best part about the movie is how gay friendly it was.
