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Junior (1994)

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Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 4

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Ultimate manly man Arnold Schwarzenegger learns what it's like to be an expectant mother in director Ivan Reitman's high-concept comedy. Schwarzenegger plays Dr. Hess, a medical researcher working on a revolutionary drug to help mothers carry endangered infants to term. When government regulations prevent Dr. Hess from testing the drug through normal channels, his partner Dr. Arbogast (Danny DeVito) develops an unorthodox solution: they will steal a female egg and implant it in Hess, who will

PG-13, 1 hr. 50 min.

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy

Dec 15, 1998

MCA Universal Home Video

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All Critics (35) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (22) | DVD (7)

A happy, healthy, bouncing baby of a movie.

April 12, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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The plot is a more fertile ground for comedy than the 'sperm milkshake' that made Schwarzenegger and Danny De Vito brothers in Reitman's Twins.

May 12, 2001 Comment
Rolling Stone
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For the right audience, Junior may deliver. But there's a whole lot of pregnancy to go through first.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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It's goofy and ridiculous and preposterous, and yet it makes you feel good, and there is something oddly heartwarming about the sight of this macho guy melting with feelings of protectiveness and maternal concern.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
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A fleecy romantic caper with a dusting of feminism, the picture is basically a one-joke movie successfully nursed by director Ivan Reitman.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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Junior demands more range from its leading man than he's capable of giving. The predictable result is a big-budget mess more likely to elicit groans than laughter.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
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Arnold's Mr. Mom film lacks belly laughs.

October 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Reutman's comedy is to this year's holiday season what Mrs. Doubtfire was to last year's, a funny but utterly conventional and obvious farce about genre and maternity.

December 18, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

Not one of Schwarzenegger's best

May 7, 2004 Comment
Lawrence Journal-World

To quote Last Action Hero: "Big mistake!"

April 2, 2004 Comment
New Times

Cute, amusing, but never hilarious.

January 11, 2004 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

A história é absurda, mas esta é uma daquelas comédias leves que servem como bom passatempo.

July 25, 2003 Comment
Cinema em Cena

Bizarrely amusing and quotable.

July 4, 2003 Comment

A pregnant Schwarznegger? Whose brainchild was this? A repugnantly lame and unfunny comedy.

March 19, 2003 Comment (1)
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Audience Reviews for Junior

okay we get it, schwarzenegger is big and devito is small. please stop! it's jumped the shark! this film again is just some funny lines here or there from arnold only because it's arnold. scripts bad and i put this under a bad carrer move for devito.

February 10, 2012
Joshua Wilburn

Super Reviewer

Junior is a poorly constructed comedy that should never have been made. The idea behind the film was pretty original, but director Ivan Reitman doesn't know how to properly direct, and make this film watchable. This had the potential of being a witty, original comedy, and though it's original, Junior is a poorly

November 27, 2011
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Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

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