The Babymakers (2012)
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Critic Consensus: The Babymakers mistakes raunch for humor and, despite a few sporadic laughs, wastes its otherwise capable cast on gross-out gags and misfired one-liners.
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Cast
as Tommy Macklin
as Audrey Macklin
as Wade
as Darrell
as Zig-Zag
as Karen
as Allison
as Leslie Jenkins
as Greta
as Mona
as Tanya
as Dr. Vickery
as Dr. Vickery
as Coach Stubbs
as Todd
as Clark
as Officer Malloy
as Wanda
as Ron Jon
as Sommelier
as Swedish Mechanic
as Butchr/Deli Worker
as Dr. Roberts
as Pedro
as Farm Girl #1
as Farm Girl #2
as Christian Girl #1
as Christian Girl #2
as Jenny
as Jesus
as Flipoff Man
as Billy
as Julie
as Sperm Bank Receptionist
as Security Guard
as Jefferey
as Groom
as Bride
as Officer Raspler
as Officer Lee
as Officer Hawk
as Officer Kanani
as Officer Pigeon
as Birthing Nurse
as Christopher
as Bus Driver
as Roxie
as Vickery Receptionist
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The sole function served by this motion picture is to illustrate how not to frame jokes in movies.
The only moments where The Babymakers provides any kind of comic lift come when talented improvisers like Faxon, Heffernan, Chandrasekhar and Aisha Tyler clearly go off-book and noodle their way into something that's actually amusing.
"The Babymakers" is amazing in its complete lack of comedy, nearly satirical in its rejection of levity and full-on embrace of mediocrity.
When a movie resorts to scenes of a grown man rolling around on a floor slick with spilled semen samples, something plainly has gone wrong.
Every so often a movie comes along that's so lame, you can almost make out a "What the hell am I doing here?" thought bubble over an actor's head.
The big disappointment of "The Babymakers" is that it doesn't come close to being worthy of its two stars, Paul Schneider and Olivia Munn.
Audience Reviews for The Babymakers
I did NOT have high hopes for this, but it turned out that I enjoyed it. Not the best movie around, but it definitely produced more than a few laugh-out-loud chuckles from me...
Super Reviewer
She's fired up. He's firing blanks. Quite a funny movie! Had the characters been developed slightly more, this could have been one of the better comedies to come out in years. It's the fact that the movie is so funny that it's easy to forgive the fact that the story and characters aren't exactly 100% there. fter trying everything to get his wife Audrey (Olivia Munn) pregnant, Tommy Macklin (Paul Schneider) realizes to his horror that he may be "shooting blanks." Terrified that his marriage may fall apart, Tommy recruits his friends (and an Indian ex-mobster) to rob a sperm bank where he made a deposit years ago. As with any half-baked scheme, everything can and does go wrong, testing the limits of Tommy and Audrey's relationship.
Super Reviewer
Not the best film to come from comedy entrepreneur Jay Chandrasekhar, "The Babymakers" is a mish-mash of capable comedic actors in watered down and misused comedic situations. With some laughs sprinkled in throughout the film, the conflicts faced are a little too sporadic and easily resolved, unlike actual life, which often presents the best humor. Paul Schneider fits perfectly into the partial Broken Lizard crew, but with very little to work with, the film often falls flat.
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The Babymakers Quotes
| Tommy Macklin: | Are you talking about robbing a sperm bank? |
| Karen: | I read on the internet that guys are totally faking it now days. |