Junior (Junior (DVD))

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Product:	Junior (DVD)
Date:	23/08/01 (60 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: None

Disadvantages: Arnie trying to be a comedian

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito scored a big hit with the movie TWINS, and so they followed it up with JUNIOR (directed by Ivan Reitman, who also directed the earlier movie).

The storyline involves Schwarzenegger as the world’s first pregnant father, and therein lies the problem. Seeing Arnie attempting to ‘act’ as a pregnant man is more bizarre than funny, and the presence of Emma Thompson as a doctor does nothing to help the film. Thompson is a fine actress, as proven by her appearance in HOWARDS END, but even she can’t save trash like this.

Arnie is so much better when he is playing an action hero, rather than when he goes for the laughs. THE TERMINATOR, PREDATOR, THE 6TH DAY, are all the kind of movies that I like to see him in, and he embodies that kind of action hero character very well. As a comedian, he is decidedly lacking in skill and charisma.

Avoid.

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