A single woman who, after getting pregnant from a one-night stand, leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.
- Released:
- Runtime: 109 minutes
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Stars: John Carroll Lynch, Kenneth Lucas, Sandra Bernhard, Oliver Platt, Hasan Minhaj, Stephan James, Ilana Glazer, Keith Lucas, Michelle Buteau
- Director: Pamela Adlon
Comments
- stevendbeard - 3 June 2024
Not That Funny
I saw Babes, starring Ilana Glazer-Broad City_tv, Rough Night; Michelle Buteau-First Wives Club_tv, Marry Me; Hasan Minhaj-The Spy Who Dumped Me, The Dailey Show_tv and John Carroll Lynch-Big Sky_tv, The Founder.
This is a comedy about female friendship that is just not that funny. Ilana & Michelle are childhood friends living in New York City and have always done everything together. On holidays, they even have a routine of going to the movies-just the 2 of them. Michelle is married to Hasan and they have 2 kids but Ilana is single. After carefree Ilana has a one night stand and gets pregnant, she decides to keep the baby and she wants Michelle to help her-the one night stand died. John plays Michelle's doctor that delivered her children and now, will be Ilana's. Maybe it's because I'm a male but I just didn't think that a lot of the humor was that funny. Lots of lactating jokes and pooping jokes. An example of one of the jokes; the mother pooping all over the baby during childbirth. There were a couple of cameos-Sandra Bernhard & Oliver Platt-but they didn't add much to the story. Maybe they showed up as a favor to someone.
It's rated R for language, drug use and sexual content-partial nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 44 minutes.
It's not one that I would buy on DVD but if you want to see it, I guess it would be alright to stream. - AlaskaAir - 14 May 2024
Why
These are two of the most insufferable characters ever to grace the screen. They're just gross and crude and act like they are still in middle school. What was the message? "Life sucks, jobs suck, pregnancy sucks, family sucks, friends suck, marriage sucks but hey, we can all make it through with drugs and codependent relationships." The whole movie is depressing. I'm not from New York so maybe i don't get the humor. I'm not easily offended but all the 🐱 and 💩 references are excessive. An attempt at being edgy or funny but missing both targets. None of my friends talk like this. Also, wrapped up some really difficult emotions and dynamics in a neat unrealistic bow at the end. It's not one woman's journey through child birth, it's delulu woman and her complete dependence on one friend that's miserable in her own life.
