The story never gets interesting. John Krasinski is moderately funny but the story itself goes nowhere.

I usually enjoy Sam Mendes' films which is why I'm puzzled that he chose this plot less script. The story can be summed up as blank, characterless couple go around America meeting their horrible, unlikeable friends. The fact that Maya Rudolph's character is pregnant is supposed to make us empathize with the couple and their uncertain circumstances. All I could think about was that they were going to bring a child as boring and lacking in backbone as themselves, and maybe the sequel to this film would be that child traveling America, meeting its own horrible, unlikeable friends. The film is truly that pointless. Allison Janney appears to be carving out a niche for herself as middle-aged woman begging for a shaking, dunk in water, pie in face, or other forms of retribution most suited to an evil harpy masquerading as a human being. After seeing the exact same performance from her in 'The Way Way Back,' I'm starting to fear that this is what she's like in real life. It's a mystery that this film garnered positive reviews. People seem to think decent cinematography and a nice soundtrack can make up for a lack of storyline and even one sympathetic character. They don't.

As I know the reasons I disliked this movie are kinda personal, I won't give it stars. Anyways I found the trailer shown on IMDb very misleading. There's another trailer by the way I've seen on a very famous video site that is less misleading. I thought I was going to watch a movie about 2 beep-ups as they call themselves who have a baby against all odds. Actually it's a movie about 2 rather successful businesspeople who are looking for a nice-looking mansion and a free babysitter even though they could afford a payed one. Also they don't seem to have any friends and know lots of stupid people. After meeting the 3rd stupid person I stopped watching. The amount of stupidness was just too much and overdone and annoying and I didn't like seeing any more of it. Some of the things the two main characters said highly upset me, such as saying 'we're beep-ups' (btw and very off-topic it's so funny you can't write a word in a review that is like the first word shown in an IMDb trailer...) while working for I don't know insurance companies or as something like an actual successful-seeming painter, or when they say stuff like 'nobody is in love as much as we are, right?' which is incredibly arrogant to say, like 'nobody in the world is as good as we are, right?' - less words would have been better here, and, well, other stuff, which might explain the having-no-friends-knowing-so-many-stupid-people-thing. If this movie was trying to be pure sarcasm I would have thought this stuff to be okay, but actually the romance music and beautiful picturing combined with these elements truly left me confused. I've heard the movie gets better at some stage. Well I don't think I'll feel tempted to check it out.

Who are these people "loving" on this film?? Seriously?? I bet you own Juno and own 20 extra copies to give to friends as presents.The music ... oh good Lord the music. So irritating, trying so hard to be upbeat alternative. Did they steal the Juno soundtrack and try to mix it up a bit. Music was so thoroughly irritating. You're going for an "indie" feel, we get it ... NOW SHUT UP!This film just reeks of desperation, it is trying so very hard but was - for me - not easy to sit through. Desperate to seem quirky, it crosses the line into ham territory. A couple learn that they are to have a child, and for no apparent reason besides the man's parents moving away, decide they have to cross the country to find a place to raise the child. One thing to mention is that not for one moment did I sense any sort of true chemistry between this couple. They were reading their lines and doing their shtick and that's about it. John Krasinski was a bad choice; he's trying too hard to disassociate himself from the office and be 'serious' that his personality is impaired the whole time, he can't particularly act that well at the best of times but here ... Maya Rudolph is not leading lady material - though I do like her - I just don't believe the character, sorry.So they go off, visiting friends and distant relatives each more contrived and irritating than the last. One woman talks about her breasts, a man pours syrup on pancakes for what seems like an eternity. The Nazi-parenting lady. All just thrown in by the writers to be clever or add dimension? Just why the behaviour of their old friend's and acquaintances has any bearing on the way they raise their own child, and where, is lost on me.After ruling people out as potential 'surrogate family groups' and the places they inhabit, they are called to Florida for a crisis , and then ... voilà!Maya Rudolph *suddenly* remembers she had a childhood home and its nearby, and its empty and it looks like something out of a catalog for window coverings. They open the whole house up and sit on the back porch. Wow ... could it be so easy? APPARENTLY! *Baad righting* Bad, bad writing. So contrived!No wonder this was on at 1:30am on a Sunday morning. I'd have rather watched the steam-mop commercials that usually play at that time! 2/10