Economic girlyman gets waxed
While trying to follow in the path of Jesse Ventura Arnie just got terminated.
Junior exists for one reason only - the chance to watch Arnie acting (unconvincingly) as a woman while he's got a bun in the oven. This line of humour is actually quite amusing, for the first 5-10 minutes. After this the laughs become ever more forced and obvious, as Arnie steadily works his way down the list of pregnancy symptoms. First there's morning-sickness, then his nipples get sensitive (though his breasts refuse to grow despite the heavy dose of female hormones), and finally Arnie ends up in a dress. There are other plot-lines but these are peripheral.
Interestingly, for a movie which is trying to overturn one of the final taboos (the notion that motherhood is only for women), Junior relies awfully heavily on stereotype.
Junior exists for one reason only - the chance to watch Arnie acting (unconvincingly) as a woman while he's got a bun in the oven. This line of humour is actually quite amusing, for the first 5-10 minutes. After this the laughs become ever more forced and obvious, as Arnie steadily works his way down the list of pregnancy symptoms. First there's morning-sickness, then his nipples get sensitive (though his breasts refuse to grow despite the heavy dose of female hormones), and finally Arnie ends up in a dress. There are other plot-lines but these are peripheral.
Interestingly, for a movie which is trying to overturn one of the final taboos (the notion that motherhood is only for women), Junior relies awfully heavily on stereotype.
posted by professor rat at 8:27 AM
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