Spoilers! If you want to watch a depressing movie that glorifies abortion, as it seems every female in the movie has had one at some point without any regrets, like it's just a normal part of growing up nowadays, and whose lead is a non-comedian who just rambles and is not the least bit funny, just extremely crude but not even clever-crude if you know what I mean, then this may be for you. This is not a romantic comedy in any form, just another feminist agenda movie which terrifyingly reveals just how shallow and selfish our society has become if this truly represents women's character and values today.Not only did this 28 yr old woman not have any strength of character but she didn't have any respect or caring for her friends or family, they were all fair game in her so-called comedy shows. She actually tells a whole audience that her mother had an abortion without even knowing if it would be something her mother would want known...her mother had just shared that with her the day before after she told her mother she was pregnant. The movie tried hard to convince us that this girl was sweet, fun loving and cute but she was immature and vapid.

It started off OK, I could see where it might have some entertainment value, so I continued to watch. As the film went on, though, it became more awkward and offensive with each minute. The acting itself was decent, but there was never really any character development, and the entire film was pretty disjointed for one that is chronologically linear. There was a significant anti-male sentiment to the film, and the extremely cavalier attitude toward abortion was appalling. I suffered to the end, thinking there might just be redemption for the script in the final minutes, but alas, it only became more revolting until the credits rolled.

Obvious Child initially struck me as being a sappy rom-com about a breakup and then redemption. However, what it actually is, is much more than your standard template romantic comedy film. Obvious Child deals with much more adult and heavier subject matters then I previously thought, in fact, the whole film creates it's new original path that is very heartfelt and beautiful, whilst also being hysterically funny without being insulting.Obvious Child is much more than a typical romantic film. You might even go as far to say it is a portrait of a woman's fight for justice and soul discovery as she explores the cruel intentions of the world as she slips into loneliness. A great film that orchestrates that the rom-com genre is far from being dead and clichéd.

Overall, an excellent movie. The main character is likable, while pathetic and struggling with her parental issues. (Dad a puppeteer and mom a university professor, cold as a Greenland Christmas day). She is pretty enough to land the lead character and flawed enough to get our sympathy. We can all relate to her Jewishness in NYC and her overall basic atheistic view. After her boyfriend dumps her, she meets a genuinely nice guy, gets wasted and bangs him. What results is a positive pregnancy test. Here is where the political views of the director and crew are apparent. The mom and older sister are ol skool feminists and relish the choice the women have, taking into consideration not at all the man's feelings nor the fetus'. When I rented the movie, I thought that there would be a child. There never was. The would-be hero, a nice guy, who wished to continue a relationship with our flawed protagonist, consented to whatever she waned... which in the end was the disposal of a human being. And that's where the film ended. I was deeply saddened, having to have made a similar choice myself, being in poverty, etc. but I chose life, and while I watched this movie, my questioned choice moved about us, creating chaos, but, wow, did I ever love him.