Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Typical garbage juice from Heigl. Recommend grabbing a rusty fork and stabbing out your eyes instead.

When I first purchased the DVD of "Life as We Know It", I was very turned-off by the sleeve of the cover. The photo shows Josh Duhamel standing straight up with a baby sporting colour-coordinated diapers and are in a similar stance slurping bottles towards their mouths while Katherine Heigl gives chase towards them. But then I had a change of heart when you learn that you can't judge a book by its cover alone, so i thought I'll give it a whirl. Sure when parents want to raise kids, they understand the positions they put themselves into and know the sacrifices and consequences they they must must face and the loving and nurturing they must provide in order to ensure their kids live a happy and caring life. Socialization will have to be minimal, assistance from extended family members and friends would be beneficial, and that setting good examples are the essential tools for raising a child. But what happens when a child is raised by unexpected parents who have never raised kids before or ever had any intentions until now? "Life As we Know It" is about a couple who now have to take the initiative of raising a baby unexpectedly and the trials and tribulations that come with the little package of joy. After the death of baby Sophie Novak's parents (Hayes MacArthur and Christina Hendricks), godparents Holly Berenson and Eric Messer (Heigl and Duhamel) have to step up to take the difficult task to raising Sophie (triplets Alexis, Brooke and Brynn Clagett) while trying to co- exist after their blind date goes bad which resulted in one can't standing each others. They never expected such events to happen as they had to hold aside their plans and their respected career agendas to raising this child which turns their life in circles. This may come across as a standard romantic comedy, but in this one there is a bit of a twist where two polar opposites struggle to raise a child while also fighting to set their differences aside. The love of a child can bring two people together or at best strive to inject positive vibes while providing essential support so that the child can live a happy and fulfilled life knowing there's people out there that love her. Though the comedy stems from the hardships of Holly and Eric raising little Sophie, the other comical idiosyncrasies stem from the legal processes, the overwhelming house mortgages and further career plans getting pushed aside.Performance wise, Katherine Heigl is still continuing her type- casted roles in her bubble as she once again is seen portraying hyper self-absorbed control freak domineering female characters towards their handsome costars. The key component to making romantic comedies sell is we have to have leading character ooze with some likability towards their characters. The script by Ian Deitchman and Kristin Rusk Robinson makes no denial that by having Duhamel as the leading male character, his charismatic manliness will surely make anyone's heart melt. The character that really makes your heart melt has to go to little Sophie played the by the Clagett trips. Every time they fill up the screen around them, the filmmakers know the right lighting and camera focuses to make you just say "Ahhh". It's hard to get children to act a certain way on screen, but director Greg Berlanti and company magically gives us that right amount of cuteness so that our leading stars have a legitimate reason to put every plan on hold to nurture this child. Sure this movie is formulaic with the familiar characters we've seen in this genre, "Life as We Know It" is a nice little comedy that is not memorable, but a fun film to watch on a rainy day. It's a quite innocent with subtle funny moments, though nothing really special. It makes you think hard if you're put in a rapid situation where responsibilities have become more mandatory than one could anticipate. Though I don't think Radiohead's "Creep" is a perfect choice for a lullaby.

... I never have to see him again." Before the starting credits roll the introduction. A by their friends arranged blind date for Holly and Eric Messer that stops before it starts in Hollys small car. Both despise each other, angry that they agreed to this blind date. Not love at first sight, a movie title, but disdain at first sight: following the curve of Hollywood. The triad of forced togetherness, subtle interest, transformation to - what else: love. Predictable. Only the details are different. Always different? Not new either: a baby child is the reason of their warlike struggle. The child's parents die in a car accident and Holly and Eric are, without knowing it, as their friends will says, appointed to be Sophies guardians. For the child's sake they have to move into their house. Pure disgust that transforms according the credo of Hollywood to acceptance and, what else: eventually love. Can it be worse and bad as it starts. Hardly. The only way is not downward but the turn upwards. Eventually both realize not only to look but see each other what is behind. Not only look but see each other. Behind society, behind the family and our pretending: behind these obstacles is the real Holly and Eric. So much more interesting that love is as possibility possible. Did their friend know this, chosen them for their task? Of course had Sophie's parents not in mind their love affair. This they had to take care themselves.Why all these predictable films? We know what happens and how it ends, slightly different in each movie. Mirroring and recognized by looking. Seldom seeing us as we know what happens and how it ends. Hollywoods contract. The first date - disdain, not love at first sight. Then the working-through to come behind the fence where it is I myself. Then, when everything is done and the shining prince on his white horse is ready to come: the happy ending reward. After the 115 minutes we return to daily life. Some ten minutes before everything seems to go the wrong way with the stand-in-hero Sam (it is calculated: the last tension everything before the real happy end; he appeared before the starting credits.The title 'Life as we know it' is what the movie wants. Nothing special and predictable. The daily life for us and nothing else.

It is a given that all non-documentary movies require some suspension of disbelief. However, they are still required to meet some level of plausibility. This movie doesn't make it.The entire premise of the movie is that two people who can't stand each other would agree to take on the responsibility of raising a kid for parents who never bothered to tell them they were appointed as guardians. This is simply preposterous on too many levels for any rational human to accept. Maybe if this were sold as a fantasy, it might have a chance, but I doubt it would work.I bailed after the first half hour.