Labor Pains (2009) Reviews

For 6 long years already, Lindsay Lohan has been the biggest trainwreck in Hollywood. Recently, the great Philip Seymour Hoffman died of an overdose and you wonder how, on the other hand, Lohan is still around after all the mess she has been through. What is even more remarkable is that she has still managed to (more or less) work during those years. However, except maybe for ‘Machete’ which was not bad, all her recent releases have been truly dreadful and this movie was not an exception, that’s for sure. Even though it was supposed to be originally made for the movie theaters, it was released as a TV feature so I wasn’t expecting much and, indeed, it was just really weak. I mean, Lohan was still at the time quite charismatic and you could see her potential but you can't help thinking that she did this one only for the paycheck (at least, I hope so). Basically, it is a pathetic comedy with a lame concept, the jokes were not funny and the characters were barelly developed. To conclude, it is actually quite morbide to watch Lohan wasting her life in general and her talent in all these awful movies and it is definitely not worth a look.

Just killing time and watched this. Surprised that I enjoyed it as much as I did. Good balance of comedy, without being slapstick and was amusing all around. No attempt at serious drama at any random point, which seems to happen every now and again with modern comedies. Entertaining movie that shows Lindsay as most prefer her, acting.