It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Long before Hugh Laurie OBE and Joely Richardson became known for their roles on American dramas like House and Nip/Tuck, they were already established and well-known in their native Britain as top professional performers. In this film, Ben Elton directs them with a first rate cast but the script needs some work and it has an ending that I was not too crazy about it. Of course, the setting is in London and the supporting cast is first rate with friends like Rowan Atkinson, Joanna Lumley OBE, Dawn French, Adrian Lester, and of course Emma Thompson. This film is a great comedy and drama at the same time but it is also quite believable too. I love the London locations and miss going there.

I ran across this movie today on the WE channel. It caught my attention because it had Hugh Laurie in it and I'm a huge fan of his. So I sat down to watch. I'm glad I did. I went through 7 years of trying to conceive and could relate to just about everything the couple was going through. I laughed out loud when Lucy was riding her moped back from the gyno and she had been lubed up and she slipped off the seat. I thought it was very well written. We got to see just how much this couple loved each other. I do think that Lucy blew the whole diary thing out of proportion. Yes she had a right to be angry but to want to throw her whole marriage down the drain seemed a little ridiculous. I would recommend watching it.

You can see why the British film industry is in dire straights. Well connected media types, on whacking salaries, leading empty shallow lives,which revolve around social climbing and being "in", all the time pretending they aren't what they are.Who Then make a film about "Well connected media types, on whacking salaries, leading empty shallow lives,which revolve around social climbing and being "in", all the time pretending they aren't what they are, just to give a hint to the masses how hard they have it and how wonderful they are. Because they have nothing else in their lives, other than their well connected jobs and issue wives.Not much talent, not much effort just a run through of "in"jokes and clichés you would know about if you were in that circle. Hugh Laurie was v good as Bertie Wooster, because thats really what he is in real life

Maybe Baby is a bitter, misogynistic, mess. It has all the drawbacks of cheapness in production, and an inexperienced director, though it had the benefit of, count 'em, FIVE producers! Elton has surrounded himself with the usual suspects in terms of cast; Emma Thompson and Dawn French both running madly amok, Joanna Lumley clearly unassisted by any direction, and Hugh Laurie and Rowan Atkinson both merely going through the motions. Atkinson in particular is very unfunny in a schoolboy's version of a gynaecologist, complete with vulgar asides and much gleeful flaunting of gynaecological instruments that look like instruments of torture.The unexpected bit of casting is Joely Richardson. She is beautiful and her beauty is exploited in a rather unpleasant voyeuristic way - it is difficult to see a woman undergoing various humiliations while trying and failing to get pregnant while the director still thinks it titillating to give us several peeks at her body. Most of the characters in the film are intended to be funny, but all are caricatures, with the exception of Joely Richardson. She is treated unsympathetically throughout and ends up paying for her inability to conceive by being made to appear not only foolish but unfaithful, until persuaded back to her abandoned husband by a toe curling section of romantic melodrama. The character of the film director is the least structured of the lot, starting out as a foul mouthed and completely implausible, Scottish yob, until the story demands that he become lovable, a task he fails to achieve with any conviction.It is difficult to believe that a film can be this bad. Maybe Baby? Maybe not.