nine month can not make up it mind . be it a romantic comedy . be it fun dumb slapstick . be it a warm tale of family . be it a comment on single yuppie . it try to be all and end up fail to be any . on the way and it be cliched and offensive and obnoxious and predictable and and dull . pity the poor cast and most of them respect actor and who must now find this idiocy forever on their resume . on a few occasion and nine month just let go into full blown and bull moose lunacy and and in those moment it a lot of fun . the ten minute or so from the time julianne moore go into labor until she give birth be hysterical and certainly the best part of the movie . for the remain 93 minute and how many way can i scream no . shall i start with the relationship between moore and hugh grant . they have be live together for five year and and both say they have be uncommonly happy and and yet they know little about each other . grant think and but isn not sure and that moore use birth control . he have no clue that moore want child and nor do moore have the least idea that grant doesn not want them . they behave towards each other like a young couple in their first few month of get to know each other . what about poor joan cusack and who hasn not get a single line to utter that isn not a cliche pull off a radio call in show . birth be a miracle . family be what it all about . sometimes husband be frustrate but they come around . never once do she say a single word that couldn not have be read off of the cover of redbook . or tom arnold and who think he successfully play a funny ` big oaf but be really just a creep . i would believe him in a horror movie ( a the horror ) but not in a light comedy . then there the enormous misstep of make hugh grant a child psychologist and despite the fact that he painfully uncomfortable around child . this be mean a comedy and but be so unbelievable and and so obviously detrimental to his client and that it just painful . finally and what about the fact that two educate professional seem to know nothing about reproduction or their own body . that isn not a joke and it a tragedy . finally and we have the hideous way that people treat each other and a though it all funny . be it funny that julianne moore pack up and leave hugh grant and slam the door behind her while he try to talk to her and because he be distant and uninvolved . yet he be the one expect to apologize and ` grow up and and do her unreasonable bidding by the final reel . yuck .