Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

benaboo This movie is not very popular to begin with but the trailers made it look at least passable. BOY WAS I WRONG! While it has it's moments of being funny and heartwarming this movie for the most part is atrocious! The characters played by Tom Arnold and Joan Cusack were very annoying! Hugh Grant in my opinion is a little miscast. Juliane Moore is a good actress but she is wasted with bad material to work with. Jeff Goldblum is fairly entertaining. Robin Williams as the Russian doctor was one of the movie's only highlights. He actually made me laugh a little but it's a shame that he's surrounded by such a bad movie. The scene with the Barney like dinosaur should have made me laugh but it didn't. For some reason that scene was painful to watch. This movie is not without it's moments but for the most part it's terrible. It's a shame because this movie could have worked as something like Mrs. Doubtfire. I'm going to compare this to another unpopular comedy called Father's Day with Billy Crystal and Robin Williams. That was not a great movie but I think it's at least passable because those two actors play well off of each other and it has some laughs and there's absolutely no way now that those two can be in another movie together. This movie however is not passable and hardly works at all.

Robert W. Nine Months was always one of my little guilty pleasures. Its not exactly brilliant and its entirely by the book and simple but has a little charm and is easy to watch. The film does have a great comedic cast and everyone seems to work really well together. I was a little surprised at how low this film scores and also some of the harsh reviews. At the very least its very entertaining. The pacing of the film is great, there is lots of emotional moments and I like it because there is a great balance of ying and yang to it meaning girls will love the heart and romance and guys will enjoy the male presence in the film too. Its just zany fun. Now I admit I'm a bit of a sucker for really good physical comedy and this film has it in spades. I'm not sure there has been a comedy since that uses that kind of comedy antics to make you laugh and it does it so well in my opinion. Now despite the fact that the first 3/4 of the film is simple and straight forward the last climatic scene of this movie is pure comedy gold. It is a riot watching this couple give birth to their son. Its antics unlike anything else out there and easily one of my favourite scenes in a film.Hugh Grant had a great career for a long time. He was King of the romantic comedies and the likable everyman. He is quite good in this playing a little bit stuck up but a guy who really tries. He's just very likable and you want to be his buddy and you understand him and he leads the cast well. His character doesn't exactly get a lot of depth but he pulls it off. Julianne Moore is decent as his loving girlfriend who gets pregnant. I wouldn't say she really stands out in the film, this is really more about Grant but she plays her part well and they have good chemistry. Tom Arnold and Joan Cusack are the stereotypical "best friend" roles although Arnold and Grant have this fun rivalry that really is a great part of the movie. Arnold was very good at being the obnoxious buddy type role and he and Cusack are really great together. The four of them are literally the reason to watch this film. Jeff Goldblum has an unfortunately small role as Grant's buddy who is a womanizer but has life lessons to teach. Goldblum is great but the role is too small. And then...the incomparable, much missed, comedy genius...Mr. Robin Williams. God I loved this man. No one did comedy like he did. This is Williams at his best. He's a neurotic, scared, Russian doctor who has never actually delivered a baby. His one liners are spot on and his physical comedy is unbelievable. He is drop dead hilarious in this film.Honestly, Chris Columbus is a genius in so many ways. He does these mainstream, almost typical cookie-cutter drama/comedies but they're also just incredibly entertaining. His films are easy to watch with great characters and he always has a great cast behind him. I wouldn't say Nine Months is one of his best but it certainly showcases the kind of film he is great at. This is just one of those films that you have to go in with the right expectations and just sit back and enjoy it. I say this a lot but people take movies like this too seriously. Sometimes (in fact most times) movies should be simple and fun and just entertain you and Nine Months absolutely does that. My beautiful wife and I watched this tonight and she is just about eight months pregnant so we got to laugh at the idea of what giving birth might mean for us. Its just fun people!! Enjoy it. 8.5/10

sddavis63 This is a strange movie in a lot of ways. It's supposed to be a comedy except that it really isn't very funny, there are some issues involved with the casting and the characters, and while it's a comedy that isn't all that funny (or, for that matter, a romance that isn't all that romantic) there are parts of it that actually work reasonably well.Hugh Grant (who plays Samuel) is not someone I consider to be an "A" list actor. He's pretty one dimensional - always seeming to play variations on the same character: the lost and confused romantic, whose life just isn't working out the way he wants. As Samuel, he's a guy who has it pretty good. He's a successful child psychologist, he's living with a beautiful woman (Rebecca, played by Julianne Moore) and everything's great until the day Rebecca tells him that she's pregnant. Samuel has no dreams of being a father, and his life and relationship with Rebecca go downhill from there. The most interesting part of the movie to me was watching Samuel's evolution from a guy who was totally uninterested in fatherhood to being a guy desperate to hold on to his new family. Grant did well with the role. He didn't overwhelm - he never does; he's just not that type of actor - but he was solid.The weaknesses in this movie revolved around the comedic elements. Yes, there were some funny moments, but there weren't enough truly funny moments for this to qualify as a really solid comedy. The real problem was that the movie often tried too hard to be funny. It went way overboard. That was, in part, a problem with the cast. Tom Arnold was cast as Marty Dwyer. He and his wife meet Samuel and Rebecca at the start of the movie. His wife Gail is also having a baby, and the two couples enter into a sometimes reluctant relationship. I've never been a big fan of Arnold, and once again he grates on me a little bit here, and his character comes across as irritating rather than funny. Then there was Robin Williams as Dr. Kosevich, the obstetrician who has just arrived from Russia and has never delivered a human baby before. Williams puts on a pretty typical, slapstick Robin Williams performance in the role - but this character was way too over the top and added very little to the movie except a real feeling of total unbelievability.And yet, watching Samuel grow in his level of comfort with pending fatherhood is satisfying. He makes a difficult evolution from a character at the start of the movie for whom you have very little sympathy, to a character who becomes very sympathetic, and who you end up rooting for as he tries to put the pieces of his life back together. You expect that a degree of comedy might come from the idea that Samuel is a child psychologist who doesn't want children, but that really isn't central to the movie (and, all things considered, I can actually see why a child psychologist might not want children - after all, he's going to see all the problems!) It's just watching him grow from a guy who's part selfish and part frightened to a guy increasingly comfortable and then even enthusiastic about fatherhood. The ending is perhaps a bit sappy, but also very appropriate to the story.It's not a great comedy. If you want something to give you a lot of laughs - look elsewhere. But it's not a bad movie really, if you can get past the excesses of Arnold and Williams. (6/10)

Jackson Booth-Millard The title when I heard sounded like a pretty obvious premise, and with a good cast list I thought I wouldn't mind it, from director Chris Columbus (Home Alone, Mrs. Doubtfire, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone). Basically child psychiatrist Samuel Faulkner (Hugh Grant) and ballet teacher Rebecca Taylor (Julianne Moore) have been boyfriend and girlfriend for five years, and never thought to commit to each other, i.e. marriage and kids. But things are about to change when Rebecca reveals that she is pregnant, and Samuel is panicking at the thought of being a father, but he is trying too hard to go along with what she wants. The pressures of fatherhood are made even worse with the constant irritation of encounters with the overbearing Dwyers, Marty (Tom Arnold) and also pregnant Gail (Joan Cusack), and some confusing advice from his single artist friend Sean Fletcher (Jeff Goldblum). Samuel and Rebecca go to see the doctor replacing the one they had in mind to do the delivery, the Russian and not very experienced Dr. Kosevich (Robin Williams), and this doesn't do any favours for Samuel either. When he misses another of the many scans they were meant to do together, Rebecca decides that Samuel is not involved enough in the pregnancy and knows he is not keen on the idea at all, so she leaves him. Alone, Samuel does watch the ultrasound video of his baby son growing inside his partner, at for the first time, he feels something for the new life he has created. After getting his head together, Samuel realises he loves Rebecca too much to let her go, and he finally feels confident enough to have a baby, and of course that is the point when her water breaks. A rush to the hospital causes some accidents along the way, a few people get injured and are forced to get in the car to go there as well, but they make it. They are not happy to see Dr. Kosevich again as the one to do the delivery, but as the only doctor who can, they, and the Dwyers right next to them have no choice. In the end, after the squabbles and the complaining from both the males and females, the two babies are delivered successfully, the Dwyers have another daughter, and Rebecca and Samuel are happy together with their baby son. Also starring Mia Cottet as Lili and Joey Simmrin as Truman. Just before the release Grant was caught with Hollywood prostitute Divine Brown, but I don't think it marred his career whatsoever, in this he still puts on the modern Cary Grant thing he brought to Four Weddings. Moore is reliable as Grant's pregnant other half, Arnold is a little annoying, Cusack is alright, Goldblum has his moments, and Williams makes the most as the manic obstetrician. The film is layered with some mild laughs, it has all the usual sentimental stuff involved for the baby premise, and the script could have used a tiny bit more work, not such a bad comedy. Okay!