So the trailer for The Babymakers (Millennium Entertainment, August 3) is now online, and it feels like a loser in the August comedy sweeptakes, up against For a Good Time, Call… and The Campaign, just to name two other films off the top of my head.
It’s a jizz-heist laffer, from the Beerfest and Super Troopers guys, in which Paul Schneider’s character tries to break into a sperm bank to get back his donated seed so that he can get his wife (Olivia Munn) pregnant. Notwithstanding the weird-match factor and seemingly dubious chemistry on display between the two, can Munn really convincingly play sweet, or basically a straight woman, after the leak of all those delicious sexts to ex-boyfriend Chris Pine? That mode wasn’t exactly her forte to begin with.
And the film’s poster is atrocious, let’s just be honest. Any one-sheet that features a guy with that look on his face is just announcing its knuckle-dragging intentions and phoned-in lack of ambition, honestly, or making a misguided play for female sympathies. “Dumb,” i.e., ribald and loose-limbed and full of bong rips, is all fine and good (it’s what the Broken Lizard guys have made a career out of, after all), but the repartee here feels stale. If one feels like cycling through its wonky set-up that features other movies’ preview clips, though, The Babymakers‘ red-band trailer, inclusive of boobs, is also over at Yahoo, here. So there’s that.
