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PITY POOR poor-Rob. A successful television correspondent in Los Angeles, he works two hours a day, has a beautiful house, a beautiful apartment, and a beautiful woman in each pad ignorant of the other woman's existence. A perfect life you say? Not when he's legally married to the two equally pregnant gals...
Screenwriter Jonathan Reynolds has managed to formulate a plot that barely passes within the audience's credibility threshhold. Rob's wife, Micki (played by the sexy actress/dancer Ann Reinking), is a successful lawyer on the verge of becoming a judge. His job is pleasant enough, and he drives a nice car. What more could a transplanted Englishman want? Little Englishmen, for one thing. Rob desperately loves kids, and after seven years of marriage he wants to have some of his own. Micki, who can barely schedule dinner with her husband, refuses. Potential judges just aren't pregnant, she reasons...
...Moore begins dating Maude (remember, this is California; first names only), a beautiful cellist played by Amy Irving whom he meets while doing a TV assignment. She quickly gets pregnant. Rob hearing future echoes of Rob, Jr., resolves to divorce Micki and marry Maude. Just as Rob is about to break the news. Micki reveals that she's pregnant and has decided to have the kid. Unable to divorce Micki (he thinks the strain will kill her) and fearful of breaking his engagement with Maude (he thinks her father, a professional wrestler, will kill him). Rob goes through with both...
...watch. If director towards learned anything from his Pink Panther films it was how to set up a really big gag, and make the audience enjoy watching the pieces fall into place until the film blows up. In this case, the gag is the inevitable simultaneous birth of Rob's two children--at the same hospital--and it meets every expectation. Unfortunately, the madcap scene at the hospital and its aftermath only occupies the last third of the film, leaving a yawning nine month gap in the middle...
...would have been to skip over that period of time as rapidly as possible. To Edward's credit, he half way succeeds in keeping audience interest by planting some notable jokes that reach fruition in the hospital scene. However, Edwards indulges in presenting the difficulties caused by Rob's bigamous bind. By this point in the film, any audience has either adequately suspended its belief or walked...