There is always a reason for a movie to make you pay for it, even if you don’t report any expectations for its quality from the beginning. [Life as we know it] is like this. It is estimated that no one would expect it to be like [Hangover] or [Overnight Stomach] before deciding to watch it. I chose it only because of the beautiful and delicious family of three on the poster. When Catherine Higel and Josh Duhamel catch a cute baby, it's simply a landscape.
As a romantic comedy, the ending of the story is easy to think of. The only difference is that this time the handsome man and the beautiful girl are in love with their children. The story of the film is very simple. A pair of men and women who look at each other unpleasantly live together in the same room with the help of their children. Don't dislike this cliché, it is estimated that everyone is rushing to live happily together forever with the prince and princess. What the director has to do is to bluntly create all kinds of small troubles, and at the same time use various blunt methods to solve them, in order to be what everyone wants in the end.
At the beginning of the film, the two were dating for the first time. I really can't see why they hate each other. People all over the world think that they are a good match, and they look at each other for no reason. At a party, the director focused his attention on these two people, as if the people around were human scenes, and there was no suspense after the two car accidents. The logic of the film is really speechless, because the will, the enemy and the child live under one roof, and all kinds of troubles come with all kinds of sweet moments. The director began to find it difficult. It is estimated that no one knows why Catherine would see the child's doctor, and no one knows why the doctor is so magnanimous that he can come out to make trouble when the director needs him. Trouble came when the family of three was at its sweetest time. Classmate Duhaming escaped, and then came to chase love at the end of the film. The story of the film is not at all eye-catching, and the narrative logic is a mess. The director will always make small troubles of reversing the plot at an appropriate time, which is blunt and speechless. Someone can keep going thanks to Duhamel and the cute baby!
The love comedies we know are often not mind-bearing and have a good skin posture. You can find some young and beautiful heroes and heroines to do mentally handicapped stories that do not eat the fireworks. This is the genre we know. There is no big reason to say, just for the spectators' obsession and occasionally a little self-anaesthesia. They often don't have to think about anything, just think about whether to fall in love with the person who makes them love each other in the whole world. Although the adult men and women in [Life as We Know] live with an extra child, unfortunately it is still a thing with no connotation.
Watching this type of romantic comedy is just to have fun, and you lose if you are serious. Who expects this kind of reunion love comedy to bring any deep thoughts? It is like a Christmas stall, a side dish on Thanksgiving, or a winter night with snow to pass the time under the covers. For those nymphomaniacs of Catherine Higel and Josh Duhamel, adultery is enough, just like the crooked neighbors in the movie do.
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