Amazon.com video review:
Having delved repeatedly into the world of teenage joys and
sorrows, from Sixteen
Candles to Ferris Bueller's Day
Off, writer-director John Hughes took a step into adulthood
(or some facsimile of it) with She's Having a Baby. Peppered
with whimsical asides and busy voice-over observations, the movie is
shamelessly fun to watch, even if it doesn't add up to anything
especially profound. Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern are newlyweds
struggling through the tribulations of a youthful marriage. Along with
the usual uncertainties, Bacon is sacrificing his dreams of becoming a
writer to work in an ad agency, and his best supposed pal (Alec
Baldwin, just before stardom) tries to seduce his wife. Hughes may
have been reflecting on his own past job in advertising, and maybe
that explains why the movie plays like a superficial, if entertaining,
TV commercial. --Robert Horton
