Junior (1994)

For me this is one of those movies you will either love or hate, there is no in between. Having said that I loved it, but do not rate it up there with good movies, because even though I loved it, it is not really that good. I do think however that it is better than the current 4.4 rating.Arnie and Danny Devito are quite funny together, but some of Arnie's acting can be hit and miss. I am by the way a big fan of Arnies, just being honest.The casting is probably the best thing about Junior. It's hard to imagine any other macho actor of Arnies ilk pulling this off. As in Twins and Kindergarten Cop, Arnie plays against his macho image, getting both laughs and smiles by showing us his non macho side.Add Danny Devito and Emma Thompson, actors I hold in high regard and you have to at least give this a go.It gave me a few laughs and a smile, but I have no wish to watch it twice.

Carry means to continue or tote . Pregnant means the vague time before birth when womb buids a fetus, it is being developed. She is the hand, pottery wheel and clay. The agent.Narcissistic misogyny wants to reduce everything into something he can control ,he only one with power or ability.This lacks imagination , from a person who has to rearrange and make a mess when he has nothing new to contribute.

Alex Hesse (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is an University professor working with Dr. Larry Arbogast (Danny DeVito) on a new drug to reduce miscarriages. However the FDA rejects human trials and Noah Banes (Frank Langella) shuts down Hesse. Bumbling Dr. Diana Reddin (Emma Thompson) moves into Hesse's lab space. Arbogast's ex-wife Angela (Pamela Reed) finds out that she's pregnant from another man. Arbogast is down $300k and convinces Hesse to test the drug on himself. Arbogast steals an egg from Reddin's stash.This isn't funny no matter how much talent director Ivan Reitman puts up on the screen. It's an odd gimmick and a quirky movie poster. It takes forever to get to any jokes and Emma Thompson doing slapstick is not funny. Arnold has a lot of lame pregnancy jokes with him playing the emotional girl. That is cute for awhile but no big laughs. They could have gone the more inappropriate route. At least, that would be something interesting. Cross dressing is fun but it feels more like a last minute attempt to pump some jokes into this movie.

Alex Hesse and Larry Arbogast are working on a new drug which will reduce the chances of a woman's body rejecting an embryo and causing a miscarriage. When their funding is withdrawn, and human experimentation is denied to them, they decide to test the drug by briefly impregnating Hesse. Hesse however becomes attached to his unborn baby.A high concept idea 'Arnie gets pregnant', let's reunite him with Devito, and we have another Twins on our hands....But without a decent script and jokes, you don't and unfortunately the script is dire, and the novelty of Arnie being pregnant wears off, when you realise he does nothing but act camp for three quarters of the film.It was such a good idea though, and Reitman can do this sort of comedy in his sleep, but the magic just isn't there, and after the blow of Last Action Hero, Arnie must have thought he would be back as the king of the movies.How wrong everybody was.Thompson and Devito escape unscathed, but only just.A horrid waste of talent.