Life as We Know It / Rated PG-13 for sex, language, drugs, dirty diapers
A blind date with two very mismatched people leads to complications. The people are Katherine Heigl, a cute bakery/restaurant owner and Josh Duhamel a beer drinking, sports loving hunk of a guy who likes to womanize and jog. The people who set up their date are their respective best friends. The BF’s get married and have a child. A cute baby named Sophie. The BF’s then meet the grim reaper and leave the kid to the baker and the drinker. More complications ensue. Lots more. They decide to raise the baby while living at odds in the dead BF’s home in Atlanta, GA in order to raise the cute little Sophie. The predictable events that are almost completely given away in the film’s trailers all occur right on schedule. Even if you haven’t seen the trailer you can pretty well guess the events correctly from what I have just told you. LAWKT is a pleasant if very predictable comedy with more comedy than expected. The movie runs a trifle long at 112 minutes and a good 20 minutes could have easily disappeared without notice or harm to the storyline. Since most of the plot issues have come from many other movies they have pretty much relegated this movie to a “date film” with heavy “chick” film overtones. The cute scenes with Sophie are easily the best part of the movie. Sophie is played by an adorable set of acting Triplets known as Alexis, Brynn and Brooke Clagett. They are really great and look a lot alike. I could not tell them apart. If you can please tell me how you did it. They appear to have no prior acting experience. A lot like the Wayans Bros. in any of their movies. The scenes are actually filmed in and around Atlanta GA. Do not confuse this city with Vancouver BC. Or vice-versa. As a date movie this one is pretty good. The two main stars do a decent job in their Odd Couple roles as opposites destined for true love. The ever busy Josh Lucas turns up as the Doctor and love interest rival for KH. This movie will look pretty much the same on DVD as it does on the big screen. At least 70% of the scenes appear to be inside the home where the 3 Sophie’s and her adopted parents are attempting to cope with her feeding, pooping and just plain looking cute. Pamper anyone?
Rated 2.5 out of 4.0 reasons to be glad this movie is not in smell-o-vision