What to Expect When You're Expecting

"Its overview of the baby experience is obscured by a family-values lens – no single/same-sex parents - resulting in an awful ensemble comedy to complete that "Valentine's Day" / "New Year's Eve" box-set, complete with sexist clichés."

"If What to Expect represents the best tearjerking laugh-machine that Hollywood can birth, it's probably time to get those story ideas implanted in vitro."

"The awfulness of What to Expect When You're Expecting, an ugly brew of guide book, reality television and romantic comedy, is of course, entirely to be expected."

"The overall mood is of warm reassurance, and some of it is even pretty funny."

"Someday Hollywood will think of women as more than fallopian tubes in heels; until then, we're stuck with this kind of project."

"A cheerful comedy with just enough dark moments to create the illusion it's really about something."

"What you don't expect is how bad almost all of it is."

"It’s Valentine’s Day with more babies and fewer attractive people. Neither a date movie (run for the hills, boys!), nor a chick flick (who wants to know the icky bits?), its intended appeal is a poser. Heavily pregnant people and those with newborns don’t get out much, do they?"