The Worst Film Ever

hyped garbage

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This was an extremely uncomfortable movie. First of all, it's a movie about a girl who wants to have a baby so badly. She looks to be in her late 20's early 30's, and she wants to have a baby with her current boyfriend. When he clearly isn't ready…she storms off, and leaves him. She goes to the doctor, because she is afraid that she is too old to have kids. When the doctor says she's got one last shot at having a child...she tries to get ahold of her boyfriend...but she can't get ahold of him because his new assistant wants her boyfriend and sabatages her calls. So, thinking that her boyfriend left her for good...she tries to find three different handsome strangers...and...well, just use your imagination. It was uncomfortable...but in the end, her boyfriend realizes that his co-worker is rejecting his girlfriends calls, and runs back to her...but not in time. Still, it has a happy ending. It was OK...just uncomfortable to watch...not a date night movie.For daily movie reviews visit: kimsmoak.com now!

Any movie released nowadays with the word "Miss" in the title referring to an unmarried woman, even when done as a play on word meaning, is either an angry gender political satire, or a sappy happy chick flick aimed squarely at frustrated single yuppie heterosexual women in the full heat of midlife baby panics. This movie is not a satire."Miss Conception" makes an interesting comparative double feature with "Teeth." The latter is a male homosexual nightmare fantasy, dressed up as pseudo feminist hokum, about the ultimate theoretical result of penile-vagina contact. .I have no idea how popular "Miss Conception" was in theaters. I had never heard of it until I saw it in a video store. I think, though, that unmarried, boyfriend-less mid thirty-something professional straight women too busy for "relationships," yet yearning for spawn, and a penis to provide it (or a turkey baster and a mail order cup of the goods), is a bigger audience than gay men and bitter lesbians watching a vagina bite off penises to validate their fears about returning to the yeasty maw that generated them, or satisfy unrequitable penis envy, respectively. For whatever reasons, nerdy gore loving teenage boys never really bit down on 'Teeth," probably because that movie's gay male director and writer infested the flick with too much yeasty pretension, and not enough potent gore."Miss Conception," to its credit for a movie of its type written by two women (presumably heterosexual), has no pretensions at all. It's a thoroughbred chick flick and makes no apologies for itself. There is nothing tentative about it, and the only guilt it seeks to induce is the guilty pleasure of its post feminist schlocky plot. That concerns a 34 year old successful business woman (who owns a construction company believe it or not) about to undergo a precocious menopause, and her frantic quest to mate when the last egg drops.After she visits a quack gynecologist who tells her that her next period will be her last one, she carefully plans how she will manage to impregnate herself, with typically improbable screwball results. A beautiful woman has four whole days to get bred, and all she can manage to land as prospective bedmates are gay men and her hunky foreman whose been rendered sterile by the mumps. Even her vial of mail order sperm winds up misfired by a turkey baster onto her 34th birthday cake in a really silly scene. Her last hope is her former boyfriend whom she really loves and wants to father her child. She dumped him earlier because he doesn't want kids, only now she makes one last attempt at getting his pee pee inside her unsheathed before time runs out. That turns out to be really hard because he goes to Ireland to shoot a movie, and will be gone the whole four days unless she can get him on the phone, and stop the bimbo female producer with him, and after him, from pulling out all her stops to make sure he never gets back in time to put in.This movie views as silly as a synopsis of the plot reads. Men should only see it if forced to by a woman they wish to enter, sheathed or not.

I've been on a string of romantic comedies this month and I've never stopped a movie or fast forwarded to the end like this movie. Miss Conception tells the story of Georgina, a 34 year old woman who is entering an early menopause and only has 4 days left to conceive. Unluckily for her, she gets into a fight with her boyfriend and he leaves for work.As the title suggests, her main goal is to conceive a baby. During a 4 day period, she goes from zany encounter to encounter. This is where the film ultimately fails. The story would like us to believe that it's just that hard for her to get laid and in reality it's really not, especially a woman as beautiful as Heather Graham.Like all romantic comedies, the resolution is predictable. It's not that it's a bad thing, but the way that the events turned out, it makes you want to skip right to the end. It's pointless because there's nothing there to makes you want to keep watching. Even for fans of romantic comedies, I highly recommend against watching this film.

I thought it was pretty good. The plot centers around a 34-year old woman who is about to hit menopause early. I've always felt that Heather Graham is an undervalued actress who could go far with the right material, eg. "Broken" (2007) but I think that the plot would have been more credible with a slightly older looking actress, Graham still looks like 25. Perhaps the scenes with Zack's adventures in Ireland and his ditzy production assistant wasn't really essential to the plot. I never really understood why Georgina fancies Zack at all when the chemistry and emotional depth between Georgina and her friend Clem appears to be much deeper. The incident with the sperm sample and the birthday cake felt very contrived.I noticed the frequent use of "Darling" and "Sweetie" which at times made the movie sound like a P.G. Wodehouse novel or an episode of "Absolutely Fabulous". Kudos to first time screen writer Camilla Leslie for making a new twist on the romantic comedy formula.