What To Expect When You're Expecting: Press reviews

'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'

'Doesn't deliver'

'Brit director Kirk Jones (Waking Ned) keeps it on the sunnier, dopier side of offensive, but it's the sort of insight-deficient fluff that thinks the misery of a miscarriage lasts only so long as a sad song'

'A token effort, at least, but it will be a very lonely man who pays to see this.'

'While this has a few smart lines, it ultimately feels like a pregnancy-based version of the risible New Year's Eve – lowest common denominator humour, such as Bank's character frequently passing wind. What to expect? Not a lot.'

'an awful ensemble comedy'

'Kirk Jones's ensemble rom-com about the pains and pleasures of parenthood does, if nothing else, provide an opportunity to star gaze.'

'On the whole, I'd rather give birth.'

'its take on pregnancy is Hollywood through and through, with all the blandness and excess that that implies.'

'Diaper jokes and swollen breasts are milked for all they're worth, sentimentality is scattered as freely as Johnson's Baby Powder, and there's a running gag as funny as a running sore'

'Bringing a child into the world is no laughing matter, and all involved seem to have done their level best to make things as mirthless as possible.'