Life as We Know It [Blu-ray]

I wanted to like the movie. It was cute enough, but really sleepy and predictable. I just felt like it could have been better. There were no surprises and it was pretty much like watching new parents raise kids. The kid is crying, drive her in the car. The kid is pooping in the tub, quick pick her up and move her to the toilet. The parents are tired and fighting, but also trying their best to raise her and work around each other's schedules. The ridiculous nosy neighbors and he's-a-player, she's-uptight made it even more stereotypical. Humor fell flat. Chemistry fell flat. Just a so-so flick.

I really enjoy watching Life As We Know It. It a classic drama with some great acting. It is a story of friendship, loss, family, friends, and love. I have watched it more than once and absolutely love it. Amazing to see the coming together of two opposite people in unexpected circumstances. Great acting by Josh and Duhamel and Katherine Heigl.

Interesting movie. Some irritating people. Very vulgar scenes. Funny scenes and sad scenes. All in all Josh Duhamel did a good job. Cutest baby. One just has to not judge and just enjoy. No one is perfect and this movie is all about that truth. Somehow these two manage to take care of the baby despite the senseless choices they make. Some scenes are over the top. Nice cakes. Very creative bakery items.

I love this movie! I watched it twice. It's a little "blue" in some areas, but Josh and Katherine do a marvelous job of portraying complex characters who go from hating each other to working together and finally falling in love. These are two of my favorite actors who help you get lost in the story!

There are loads of well written and detailed reviews, so I won't bother repeating them. This movie is a typical romantic comedy but the acting and the directing/cinematography took it to a new level. It is well paced and the shots and lighting are so well done that this film is quite pretty to watch. But the real reason that you will want to watch this movie more than once is the acting of Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel. So many times in romantic comedies the acting falls short and the movie drags on seemingly forever. That is definitely not the case here. Katherine Heigl makes highly improbable situations believable and Josh Duhamel does a yeoman's job keeping up with her. There are laugh-out-loud moments as well as teary-eyed scenes. This movie is a joy to watch and now has a place in my 'keeper' DVD collection of movies I will definitely watch again!

LIFE AS WE KNOW IT manipulates you like a marionette, tugs at your heartstrings, tries to melt your heart with a bombardment of cute baby. It gets away with it because of the two good leads and because the screenplay draws a nice balance between comedy and melodrama, and because the baby really is freakin' adorable. LIFE AS WE KNOW IT has Katherine Heigl once again playing one of those fussy, career-oriented, yet vulnerable roles she so excels in. This time her character is Holly Berensen, an up-and-coming caterer. Josh Duhamel stretches his range from playing G.I. Joe on TRANSFORMERS to a fun-loving, laid back network sports director named Eric Messer (but no one calls him "Eric"). The story kicks off with Holly and Messer set up on a blind date by mutual friends, and the date is a horrible, utter disaster. A colossal dating no-no: arranging for a booty call later that night when your current date is in the same car with you. Holly and Messer quickly part company, quite disenchanted.So imagine their alarm when those same friends who set them up die in a car accident and Holly and Eric find themselves the legal guardians of a suddenly orphaned baby girl named Sophie. Can these two very different souls put aside their mutual dislike and their warring agendas to make a home for Sophie? Well, no, they really can't. They adore the kid. But they can't stand each other. In the parlance of cinema, there's no better recipe for romance.For the common denominator crowd, there are the baby poopy gags and the smoking the extracurricular stuff. We get the expected hijinks revolving around our couple's attempts to juggle careers and social obligations with their parenting of Sophie. Except that the screenplay delivers enough depth and serious moments to offset the silly. It restrains itself enough. To be honest, there's nothing here that you haven't seen before. But the performances carry you through. Heigl and Duhamel work really well together. The inevitable love story pays off when it suprisingly takes an honest, emotional turn down the road. And you have to appreciate the neat little touches brought about by a supporting cast which features odd neighbors, a teen (pre-teen?) baby whisperer, and a social worker who develops a case of slow burn hysterics. Josh Lucas also shows up as a hunky pediatrician, not that anyone feels threatened. LIFE AS WE KNOW IT is a romantic comedy as we know it. And, I guess, sometimes, there's comfort in familiarity, if the execution is right, if the two leads are compatible, if the baby is all kinds of huggable. Aw, cripes, I'm a sap.

Take huge chunks out of KH's three most popular comedies: 1) unexpected motherhood (Knocked Up); 2) the tendency to put other's needs before herself (27 Dresses); 3) clashing with a player, then falling in love with him after he miraculously becomes a one-woman man (Ugly Truth), put them in a blender, add the necessary dramatic elements to explain how the main characters ended up in their situation, and what have you got? Well, this movie.Sorry I can't go deeper than that. I liked it; I'd watch it again. It's Katherine Heigl-- everything she does is entertaining, and she's adorable, and way talented. It's a rom-com; we don't watch them to ponder deep mysteries of existence-- at least I don't. It's an escape for a few.Having said that, I also want to add that the arguments between the two seemed more real/less staged than I've seen before in other movies; almost felt like I was eavesdropping in a few spots. But I blinked, and he had gone from womanizer to a man in love in about the time it takes to sneeze. And then they all lived happily ever after.Katherine Heigl has only begun to show us what she can do; I predict there will be much more in the future. Can't wait to see what she does next. Whatever it is, she will rule the screen.

Absolutely awful movie, which I immediately disliked due to the most unpleasant behaviour by the Josh Duhamel character.There were a few redeeming scenes later on, but they could not lift it from the depths to which it had fallen at the start.Within seven hours of my receiving the Disc, it has ended up in the trash

Good film funny

A bit dull

This is the film I like to watch when I need a film pickme up. It makes you feel good and isnt way out on the whole storyline its perfectly possible to happen. It just goes show most families are normal and definatly not perfect. :)

good