January 12th, 2012 at 11:00 am by
Sheri

New Year, new movies: Friends with Kids, directed by Jennifer Westfeldt is a topical adult comedy about two best friends Westfeldt and Adam Scott) who decide to have a child together while keeping their relationship platonic, so they can avoid the toll kids can take on romantic relationships. How very 2012 of them. Seriously, I think every single woman over 30 who really wants to have a child has thought about or had this conversation with a best friend. (The best friend is usually gay, but that’s another movie. Object of My Affection and The Next Best Thing spring to mind.)
Costarring Jon Hamm (Westfeldt’s real-life partner, these two are one of the longest running ‘non’ marriages in Hollywood and certainly one of the best looking couples to ever grace a red carpet), Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Chris O’Dowd, the cast is certainly likeable. You’ve loved them separately, you’ve even loved most of them together, since this is essentially the cast of Bridesmaids with Westfeldt and Scott thrown in. Oh yeah…and Megan Fox.
I liked the trailer. I didn’t love it. It felt like a Saturday Night Live skit drawn out to feature length. That’s certainly been done before with mixed results. Written as well as produced and directed by Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein, Ira and Abby), I do think that Friends with Kids has the potential to land at the more successful end of the spectrum (Wayne’s World as opposed to Ladies Man). She’s got some heavy weights on board, with Jake Kasdan and Mike Nichols earning 2 of the many producer credits as well.
Friends with Kids debuted at TIFF last fall and opens wide in the US on March 9. (Well, we know I won’t be seeing it opening weekend, don’t we?*)
Check out the trailer below.
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*also opening March 9, Playing the Field with Gerard Butler