Funnier and darker than you might expect, although the tone fluctuates wildly enough to seriously disorientate.
While Heigl’s charisma elevates the material, there’s no emotional logic to her and Duhamel’s budding chemistry.
Toddles through the same tired set-ups as every other rom-com of recent times, with some nappy humour for added fun.
When they get together, it feels like something to do with careers, contracts and romcom necessity; nothing to do with life.
It's not completely terrible; a little spark of something crackles between Duhamel and Heigl.
The plot goes through motions that will be tiresomely familiar to anyone who saw Baby Boom, Three Men And A Baby, Raising Waylon or dozens of other movies about unplanned parenthood.
You'll be able to count the laughs on one finger.
All we get is mush.
THE best that can be said about Life As We Know It is that the character Mad Men's Christina Hendricks plays dies in the first ten minutes, thus sparing her fans the indignity of watching her suffer through the rest of this excruciating rom-com about the joys of enforced parenthood.
A romantic comedy so tired that it even has a last-minute dash to the airport.
Always predictable and rarely funny.
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