I saw a trailer for the upcoming comedy What to Expect When You’re Expecting,
based on the best-selling book of the same name. Judging from the two minute
trailer, it looks like yet another lowest common denominator comedy that gets
the majority of its laughs from trafficking in stereotypes of the difficulties
of parenting. In 2012 can Hollywood really do no better than jokes about
incompetent dads who just don’t know what they’re doing? Seriously? This
trailer came at the front of Jennifer Westfeldt’s startlingly excellent comedy Friends With Kids. The trailer for What to Expect doesn’t belong anywhere
near the same screen as Westfeldt’s film.
