“A dirty diaper bag of sex jokes, sentimental mush, cartoonish claptrap and weary parent-to-be clichés.” Neil Pond, American Profile
“It is the birth control of movies. What To Expect When You’re Expecting could scare you away from having a baby for life.” Willie Waffle, WaffleMovies.com
“Has the smug tone of judgmental, know-it-all parents, yet its reliance on tired plot devices suggests that the filmmakers may have actually skipped out on their reading.” Josh Bell, Las Vegas Weekly
“What audiences should expect is a tone-deaf, superficial, charmless ensemble rom-com, focused on five attractive, but uninteresting, couples.” Claudia Puig, USA Today
“Babies are cute and expectant parents often aren’t. That kind of sums up What to Expect When You’re Expecting.” Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
“Cute couple Kendrick and Crawford are completely lost at sea. But the guys in the Dudes Group have the worst of it—they are a whiny, unappealing bunch through and through.” Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
“Exactly what you’d expect. And that’s not a good thing.” Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com