A couple of months ago I reviewed The Switch, the Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman film about a non-traditional family (I really really liked it, btw). Now we have Life as We Know It, another family-themed movie with a completely different approach.
Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel play Holly and Messer, two people who hate each other, but are linked by two of their married friends. These friends try and set them up together with disastrous results, but they don't give up. When these friends die suddenly in a car accident, Holly and Messer are shocked to learn that they have been chosen as the new guardians for their friend's only child, 1 year old Sophie. Will they put aside their differences and raise the baby, or will their worlds fall apart?
Life is a very depressing film. The characters are very likable, which makes the hardships they go through tough to watch at times. On the downside, the neighborhood the two live in have some of the most annoying neighbors that seriously almost ruined the film for me. We would go from a touching scene to a scene that seemed pulled out of a bad sitcom.
I didn't hate this movie at all - as a matter of fact I kind of liked the original concept. I just wish it was as good a movie as it could have been. One side annoyance - in the trailer, Katherine Heigl's character Holly doesn't notice that she has poo on her face, and her neighbor says "...you have poo on your face." In the movie, the neighbor's line is changed to "...you have sh** on your face." I think it's odd they felt the need to swear when the line was fine as it was. This isn't an edgy adult movie after all. I would give it a 6 out of 10.
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