by  John Thielking
5-20-12

In What To Expect When You're Expecting, five couples experience the joys and the ups and downs and occasional disasters that accompany impending parenthood.  One couple (competing food truck owners) has an unexpected pregnancy after a one night stand. One parenting and exercise guru has hormonal challenges and a husband who is competing with his Dad who has a trophy wife who is having twins, etc. The suspense is rounded out with a group of Dads who go strolling through the park together, with their babies in their strollers.  Three stars.

This movie ranks as being nonviolent because it has only 7 violent scenes in it.  These include: a couple tells stories of burns and other work injuries, a woman destroys a cell phone, there is a miscarriage, a go cart crashes into a pool, a man's toes get run over, there is a fender bender while parking a car and a kid gets hit in the head with a soda can.