Babes

For women who like a good BFF movie---it's cute and has some funny moments. Ilana Glazer is a great actress and it's unfortunate in this world that people like Julia Roberts, with zero range, gets fame and fortune . The movie was a like an episode of HBO's Girls if you like that kind of thing. I do. Sometimes you are sick of violence, vampires, gratuitous sex and you want a fun, innocent movie with some charm. Some criticism is necessary if one only gives a movie a six. How does Eden have such a large/great apartment if she is just a yoga instructor ? Doesn't make sense . And the exit of Claude makes no sense and should have been a different excuse. Many women know the ups and downs of lifelong friendships and sometimes it has a happy ending and many times it doesn't last and you only have your good memories of the person who got you through middle school.

Not really a feel-good movie, hits really hard in the reality. It had several laugh out loud moments and was overall enjoyable but this is not a movie I'll be rewatching when I need a pick-me-up movie.

I thought Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau were an awesome duo. They had great chemistry for a buddy-comedy but I wish there had been more of the comedy aspect to it. A lot of this movie was very heavy which was not what I was expecting based on the trailer and summary.

I will say the heart-felt moments were very deep and moving, and if you're looking for a movie that conveys the harsh reality of parenthood while giving you laughs here and there then this movie will meet those requirements.

I Wasn't sure I was going to like this movie at all when it started, it did have a rough start, amd there were some cringy scenes, but when the story got moving I was engaged and there were some genuinely funny moments. It was interesting to see a realistic view of what pregnancy and motherhood can be like, through the perspective of the two main characters. There where some great side characters, the doctor being especially good. Not my favorite movie of the year by any means, but I liked it a lot more than I would have thought, and although I will likely never watch it again I'm glad I saw it. The music was pretty good as well.

The about to give birth "Dawn" (Michelle Buteau) is married to the perfectly manscaped "Marty" (Hasan Minhaj) and is best friends with "Eden" (Ilana Glazer) who is keen on having a baby but so far lacks a suitable sperm donor. That all changes, though, when she encounters the charming "Claude" (Stephan James) on the train and, thinking her period is sure fire protection against getting pregnant, they have some fun. She is smitten, but he disappears without a trace and she just chalks it up to experience. A few months later, though, she gets quite a shock and what now ensues sees the friendship she has with "Dawn" quite seriously tested, yada yada. There's nothing new to this at all, and after the first twenty minutes of serious over-acting and a scene where a waiter concerned that the amniotic fluid leaking over the floor of his restaurant might not be that hygienic - and it designated a "woman hater", the stall was set out for this frankly quite puerile attempt at comedy. It's structured just as if it's a couple episodes of a mediocre sitcom interspersed by a stand-up routine style narrative from writer Glazer that rehashes a tired girl-power mentality that stopped being funny thirty years ago. I didn't care if their friendship worked or didn't: there's no effort to develop the characters and frankly I'm not surprised "Claude" took an early bath from these proceedings. I'm not really a fan of these buddy-comedies that take a relationship that supposedly works, break it, then try to put "Humpty" together again for the sake of an ending we could all see from space, and this is another off a conveyor belt completely devoid of originality.

The brainchild of Pamela Adlon and Ilana Glazer, is a comedy that tackles the messy realities of female friendship and motherhood. Glazer shines as Eden, a free-spirited yoga instructor whose life takes a sharp turn when her best friend Dawn (Michelle Buteau) becomes a mom of two, and Eden herself gets pregnant from a one-night stand.

The film's strength lies in its unflinching honesty. It doesn't shy away from the gross bodily fluids, sleep deprivation, and emotional turmoil that come with pregnancy and early parenthood.

However, where Babes stumbles a bit is in Glazer's signature delivery. While her brand of in-your-face humor perfectly captured the wild energy of Broad City, it can feel a tad repetitive here. Jokes that landed big on television lose some punch on the big screen, and the constant barrage of profanity and awkward bodily functions can become tiresome after a while.

Buteau serves as a fantastic counterpoint. Her portrayal of the overwhelmed yet fiercely loving Dawn provides a much-needed grounding force. The chemistry between the two leads is undeniable, but the film tends to have a few plot holes and shift in time that forces you put together some of the missing pieces.