What to Expect When You're Expecting (film)

This movie based on the best-selling book of the same title is one more of those light-hearted comedies that Hollywood loves to produce trying in this case to repeat the success this story had as a book. 
With stars such as Cameron Díaz, Jennifer López Elizabeth Banks (Sherlock Holmes) and Chace Crawford (Up in the Sky) you would expect a much better product but perhaps that is the problem with this film: there are too many cooks in the kitchen. And it is not only for the actresses already mentioned since there are others there such as Chris Rollllck and Dennis Quaid whose performances suffer of the limited time they have in screen. 
The story itself is not the problem but perhaps how ambitious as a project this film is. With so many lives to portray and the sudden problems each one has to face when they know or try to become parents, it is understandable that this movie did not perform better. Though still it is nice to see all these actors and actresses in only one picture, all of them playing characters whose lives turn upside down when they know a baby is coming or in their deisre to have one do not hesitate to travel abroad and adopt. 
If you enjoy sitting down and seeing films like this you won´t get disappointed because this comedy is perfect in that sense and delivers as expected. On my behalf I must say I was already bored after the first twenty minutes. I was simply expecting more.
Two out of five stars for this one.

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