Dr Alex Hesse and Dr Larry Arbogast are working on researching a drug that will reduce the symptoms of pregnancy and reduce the chances of sickness and miscarriages. But when the FAA reject their project the programme is cancelled. However Dr Arbogast convinces Hesse that the research can go ahead if a willing subject can be found step forward Dr Hesse!
Hey lets try and redo the success of Twins. Twins was an one-joke movie so lets do that again! Etc! Here the plot can be kindly described as stupid and it's sheer daftness is difficult to get past. The film deals with any moral issues that may spoil the laughs by, well, completely ignoring them. Babies for the sake of science is a touchy point yet this happily just ploughs in! It does have a few amusing moments mostly seeing Arnie play totally against type by being pregnant and emotional etc.
Schwarzenegger is good and plays well against his action hero personae but this one joke is difficult to stretch to the whole film and the laughs don't come as frequently as you'd hope. DeVito is underused and his motormouth routine that served him well in Twins is not really brought into play apart from a few early scenes. The biggest let down is to see Emma Thompson playing a dipsy blonde who falls over etc. Outside of this the only interest is a non- speaking role for Meloni (Oz) and a Sopranos regular.
Overall this is an one-joke film and it's not that funny a joke. It's amusing to see Arnie out of his usual action role but really it needed more to make it funnier.
