Life as We Know It 2010

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: I didn't laugh once at any of this trite, sentimental gunk... Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: There is not a single deviation from formula. Read more

Lisa Rosman, Time Out: It's a sorry state of affairs when Katherine Heigl is the closest approximation of a screwball-ready actor that contemporary mainstream movies can offer. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: What are two particularly engaging performers doing in a dump of a comedy like this? Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: Pity any poor kid stuck in a house like that. Pity, too, anyone who has to stop by for a visit. Read more

Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic: The supporting cast serves up enough small moments of surprise to keep this formula flick from falling flat. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It's brisk, pleasantly acted, painless. These days, that's high praise. Read more

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Credulity is stretched throughout. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: This is a change from what audiences have come to expect from the usual Heigl vehicle. She's quicker-witted and warmer than usual here, and she keeps Duhamel on his toes, even when the storyline drags its feet. Read more

Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Watching Duhamel and Heigl discover the joys and pains of parenthood is cute as far as it goes, but their story can't progress too far until the kid is out of diapers. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: As disposable as one of those diapers. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Yes, there are some twists, a nice comedic turn or two, but the inevitable hook-up of dueling opposites is never anything but inevitable. Read more

Adam Graham, Detroit News: It aims for comfort food, but ends up with leftovers. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A comedy as disposable -- and stinky -- as loaded Pampers. Read more

Sean Means, Film.com: The title becomes a depressingly self-fulfilling prophecy: This is movie life as we have all come to know it. Read more

Jake Coyle, Associated Press: Its familiar story passes with nothing to distinguish itself from the many other similarly plotted movies and sitcoms. Read more

Christopher Kelly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: Life as We Know It turns into a reasonably honest consideration of what it might mean to have to honor the dead by raising their living, breathing, pooping, screaming progeny. Read more

Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel do make for very attractive leads while bringing plenty of vitality to thinly written roles. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: What you may not expect is quite how satisfying much of the film is, with Duhamel turning out to be a very good sparring partner for Heigl, whose lush, soft exterior conceals a very spiky interior that tends to wilt her co-stars. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Sometimes I suspect there is secret high-stakes contest in Hollywood among filmmakers to try and come up with a movie without a single original idea. If so, Life As We Know It is a contender... Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Veers not an inch off Hollywood's well-worn rom-com path. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Basically, this is The Taming of the Shrew with an adorable-baby twist that never occurred to William Shakespeare. Read more

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: With pratfalls and teardrops, the film swings from sitcom to sit-dram. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Cloying and at times annoying, Life as We Know It is egregiously manipulative, whoring itself out for a few unearned tears. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: So anyway, what happens in Life As We Know It? You'll never guess in a million years. Never. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: This is crap as we know it, a 113 minute package of romcom suck. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Every moment, however seemingly haphazard and casually presented, is keyed to the progress of a young man from lost to not so lost. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: If innocuous entertainment, amiable enough while it lasts but forgettable beyond, has a place in life as you know it, then Life As We Know It will have a place in your heart. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Just like the clunker you end up buying and liking in spite of everything, Life As We Know It gets you there. Exactly where is hard to say, but chances are you won't regret making the journey. Read more

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: We keep seeing Heigl's potential as a fine comic actress and, the curse of optimism, continue to be disappointed when she betrays her best instincts. Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: You could write this one in your sleep. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel have an appealing chemistry, but Life as We Know It is tripped up by awkwardly fusing a familiar sitcom scenario with a tragic premise. Read more

Brian Lowry, Variety: Life demonstrates quite a lot about the state of this genre as we know it -- and by that unexacting measure, anyway, it's better than most. Read more

Karina Longworth, Village Voice: The feminine fantasies Berlanti seemingly seeks to stoke are undercut by a vibe thats weirdly misogynistic. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Whose life are we talking about, exactly? Read more