Life as We Know it

Heigl stars as Holly Berenson, a woman whose best friend, Alison (Christina Hendricks), dies in a car accident along with her husband, Peter (Hayes MacArthur). The couple leaves behind a will, stipulating that Holly raise their 1-year-old daughter along with Peter's best pal, Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel). If you can't guess what happens next, well, you probably haven't seen the thousands of commercials that have been airing recently, have you? Holly and Eric hate each other, yet they stifle their loathing and move into a sprawling mansion in order to watch the little tot grow up. Still, when the baby goes poo-poo, the pair almost lose it. Will these two ever work things out? Will they ever get together? There's nothing worse than a predictable romantic comedy, and this is as obvious as it gets. Also, Eric goes from the worst dad on the planet to the best faster than you most of us can say "you're grounded." If there's one positive thing to come from Life as We Know It, it's this - the entire family will finally agree on a movie's suckiness. It's not funny, the plot is ridiculous, and the 115-minute running time feels like five hours. The film will also give a family a whole two hours of dinner discussion at the least. Of course, there's one aspect of the film dads can enjoy - Christina Hendricks' two babies. This romantic comedy has a long, unfunny build-up to a car crash in which a married couple are killed, leaving the victims' best male and female friends as the designated guardians of their one-year-old daughter. The woman, Holly (Katherine Heigl), is the fashion-conscious owner of a gourmet food boutique called Fraiche, the man, Eric (Josh Duhamel), is a slobbish director of sports programmes at an Atlanta TV station, and they purport to loathe each other. Their problems with nappies, baby food, minor illnesses, sleeplessness, cohabiting in the deceased couple's home, coping with work and so on are always predictable and rarely funny. To me, the chemistry going on between Heigl and Duhamel was about as exciting as that between Ann Widdecombe and Anton Du Beke Child friendly? Life as We Know It tells the story of two dimwitted people whose best friends die in a car accident. The couple leaves behind a 1-year-old tot and their will demands that their two friends raise her together. Once living under the same roof, the pair realize that poop grosses them out and they thoroughly hate each other. The film contains some sexual scenes, drug use and swearing.