The Babymakers

    The Babymakers
    2012

    Synopsis

    After he flunks a fertility test, a man realizes that the only way he can get his wife pregnant is by robbing a sperm bank to take back the last of the deposits he made there years earlier.

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    Cast

    • Paul SchneiderTommy Macklin
    • Olivia MunnAudrey Macklin
    • Kevin HeffernanWade
    • Wood HarrisDarrell
    • Nat FaxonZig-Zag
    • Jay ChandrasekharRon Jon
    • Aisha TylerKaren
    • Collette WolfeAllison
    • Hayes MacArthurLeslie Jenkins
    • Lindsey KraftGreta

    Recommendations

    • 58

      Entertainment Weekly

      This comedy about a couple who can't get pregnant is stuck between Judd Apatow's humane raunchiness and the American Pie series' smirky broadness.
    • 42

      The Playlist

      Overall, Chandrasekhar's first tentative venture towards something slightly more sincere is undermined by, quite frankly, his irresistible urge to take the piss out of every sequence that might have been played even remotely seriously.
    • 42

      The A.V. Club

      It's raunchy/sweet in the "American Pie"/"40-Year-Old Virgin" tradition, and as dynamic as a glob of lazy sperm.
    • 40

      Time Out

      Munn has proved on TV that she has solid timing, but she does little here other than look pretty and, when the plot calls for it, outraged. As for the likable Schneider, the "All the Real Girls" actor demonstrates that he's better off as a straight man than as a physical comedian.
    • 40

      Village Voice

      The zippy screwball energy - and fantastic roster of cameos - that mitigated the fratty humor of Broken Lizard's last movie, the restaurant send-up "The Slammin' Salmon," is missing here, resulting in generic, feeble laffs and an ending as sticky as the pilfered substance.
    • 25

      Slant Magazine

      A safe, laugh-free exercise that gets to have its fun, such as it is, because it's all in the service of the most conservative notions of domestic normality.
    • 25

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Utterly clueless about its tone and has no idea how relentlessly it is undercutting itself. By the time we arrive at the obligatory happy ending, which is perfunctory and automatic, I felt sort of insulted. If Chandrasekhar thinks his audience will laugh at his vulgarity, why does he believe it requires a feel-good ending?
    • 25

      Boston Globe

      The squirminess stands out here because there's so little going on the rest of the time.