If you think this is just your routine chick flick, then I think you ought to know that even the Man's Man that is Tim loved it. And believe me, he would rather gouge his eyeballs out with a dull spoon then watch a chick flick.
It really is that good.
Predictable.. yes. You know from the first frame of the film that Katherine Heigl (her generation's Meg Ryan) and Josh Duhamel (ANY generation's poster boy for O.M.f.G!) are going to be together by the last frame.
It's the getting there that is hysterical.
Heigl's Molly is one of those bougie organic eatery owners who has a list for everything including her perfect man. She's uptight enough to make you roll your eyes but not so uptight that she's irritating.
Duhamel's Messer is a typical guy's guy with the dream job.. working in the camera booth for the local NBA team. He's everything she's not.. which makes them so perfect together. A fact not missed by their best friends, the parents of a toddler, who bequeath the baby to Holly and Messer in their will.
Of course, the parents die and the hilarity begins.
You have the obligatory changing the dirty diaper scenes.. and can't get the baby to stop crying scenes .. and the realization that life as they knew it had changed scenes.. but they're smartly written and well acted and just different from what's been done before.
I have to say though.. that as much as I could just stare and drool at Josh Duhamel, the scene stealer is Sarah Burns as the social worker. She only has three or four scenes but each one kept getting funnier and funnier.
Josh Lucas ( of Poseidon, Sweet Home Alabama and quivering thighs with heart flutters)also takes a spin playing Holly's almost love interest.
You won't be disappointed. Definitely two thumbs up and worth springing for the popcorn, nachos and big box of raisenettes!
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