Friends with Kids (2012)

Powerful

Don't listen to the negative reviews

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I saw this because it stars most of the cast of Bridesmaids and Adam Smith (who is great on Parks & Recreation).I was shocked and offended by the old-school sexism of this movie. characters who don't feel the need to marry are referred to as an "affront". characters who don't want children are show to be mean and selfish.this is a swing back to pre-stonewall and pre-feminist times.this is why American are seen as provincial and homophobic-- because mainstream American culture IS provincial and homophobic. when films like this set out to define a "new normal" they disregard the fact that they are also defining a new abnormal.

I just want to watch it over and over. Just a perfect movie. It really hit home for me for some reason. I'm a writer myself and women never get the credit they deserve. It is completely relatable. Been there in the dating seen. Blind date situations, getting older and the young "hot chick" pains, the first years of marriage stage and the true feelings of looking at your friends thinking...What are you doing? After having kids. Jennifer put this entire Bridesmaids cast together before Bridesmaids and she gets no credit. She's an amazing actor, writer and director! This chick knows how to write, how to act, she knows how to put an amazing cast together and hire the editors etc. I'm blown away and I don't know these people at all. All I can say is....Go girl, Go!

Two plutonic friends decide to have a baby but not marry, to avoid the toll kids may have on their marriage. The characters seem uninspired and personal interaction seemed stale. Passionless. The humor wasn't there for me. I kept waiting for the punch line, even the actors seemed stiff and bored. Jennifer Westfeldt, the films writer ,director, and actor made this slow mover hard to really get into, with predictable scenes and ending. Kristin Wiig's character maybe could have added some humor had the character hadn't been hidden in the background. Although slow moving this was entertaining I just kept waiting for the pace to speed up.

Jennifer Westfeldt and Adam Scott play best friends who both want kids but not all the crap that comes with marriage and decide to have a baby with no relationship strings attached. This movie belongs to the long tradition of films that feel like two or three seasons of a diverting sitcom compressed into a two-hour running time. So it's probably no spoiler to reveal that Westfeldt and Scott realize that they've been fooling themselves all along, are meant for each other, and decide to commit to each other and their baby.The ending feels completely wrong and forced for many reasons, not the least of which is that Westfeldt and Scott have no chemistry together. I happen to really like Westfeldt, but I can completely see why her neurotic screen persona would drive other people crazy. This was the first thing of any consequence I'd ever seen Scott in, and there's something just flat out unlikable about him as an actor and his character that left a huge hurdle for me to get over. But beyond that, the movie isn't half bad, and it's refreshing for once to see a movie about relationships with children actually feature the children. Kids are in this movie all the time, and it's a far more realistic portrayal of what it's actually like to be a parent than the films in which kids are always off screen and completely silent.The group of actors that play the main couple's friends includes the likes of Jon Hamm, Mya Rudolph, and most notably, Kristen Wiig, who is saddled with perhaps the most thankless role given to any actor in recent years, who has virtually nothing funny to do despite her tremendous gifts as a comedienne, and who yet managed to captivate me in every scene she appeared in. Could she have dramatic gifts as an actress that haven't yet been tapped? Grade: B