A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have designed for expectant women. To carry out the trial, he has an embryo implant, believing that he will only carry the baby for three months – hardly expecting to face the prospect of giving birth.
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.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
12 May 2001
rotten:
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.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
A fleecy romantic caper with a dusting of feminism, the picture is basically a one-joke movie successfully nursed by director Ivan Reitman.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
For the right audience, Junior may deliver. But there's a whole lot of pregnancy to go through first.