Baby On Board (2008/E1 Entertainment/Blu-ray
+ DVD)
Picture:
B/B- Sound: B/B- Extras: C Film: D
There are
certain films that arrive straight to video without a theatrical release, often
times it’s low budget films that do not have strong studio backing, then there
are films like 2008’s Baby on Board
that is so bad that it isn’t even worthy of a cinema-wide release. So we get the DVD and Blu-ray release of this
film that attempts to destroy all credibility that might even remain in Heather
Graham, Jerry O’Connell, John Corbett, and Lara Flynn Boyle, as we drift into
the lives of Angela and Curtis who have a wonderful life together until their
unexpected pregnancy turns their world upside-down.
The film
is short on laughs and unlike superior films like Knocked Up or even Nine
Months, which this film feels like a poor imitation of, it trivializes the
beautiful aspects of child-birth and pregnancy in general, mocking things with
poor taste it gives the impression to the audience that having children will
only ruin your life, or that having children unplanned is some taboo
thing.
The
result here is just a plain and simple story that tries to being humor, can’t
find it’s way out of it’s script, delivers few humorous moments, and falls flat
on it’s mediocre face and runs nearly 90+ minutes of near-torture.
For those
who venture to get your copy though, the DVD is incredibly poor with the 1.78 X
1 anamorphic transfer looking flat, dated, and without much detail, the Blu-ray
is a bit better, but still far too soft and only enhances the poor production
further. Then there is the Dolby Digital
5.1 mix on the DVD, which is also unimpressive and gives very little life to
the score, the dialogue, or anything else for that matter, the Blu-ray beefs things
up a bit more with a DTS-HD 5.1 mix that is certainly more lively, but the film
has such a weak sound mix to begin with that it doesn’t bring much justice and
it wouldn’t improve the quality of the film much anyway.
Extras on
both include a commentary with director Brian Herzlinger and producer Emilio
Ferrari, trailer, and photo gallery all of which are safe to skip, along with
the film.
Baby,
don’t get on board with this bomb.
- Nate Goss
