I love precious little babies.

Rating: 2/10 (2 June 2007)

Why did I give this film a 2? I'll tell you why. Because this film boasts two of the most annoying characters since Jar Jar Binks: Kee's new-age babysitter and the jibba-jabba landlord lady toward the end. These characters made me want to kill. And then there's the fact that the movie didn't make any damn sense. "Little-bitty babies are just so precious" is a terrible plot device, and was not adequate to rescue this horrible story. The story put a big question in front of the audience that never successfully addressed, the central theme that was screaming at me was "where did this fertility crisis come from?" Their treatment of that question was superficial, cursory and completely unsatisfying. This could have been a great film if they'd found a good way to answer that question. But they didn't even try. If "precious little babies" make your eyes glaze over in ecstasy, if you require no more plot exposition than "goo-goo-ga-ga", then you and this film deserve each other. I give it 2 stars because I actually like babies a little. And Michael Caine's aged hippy character is such a shallow stereotype that it cheapens his participation.