Friends With Kids: Why?
Normally we here at CineNiche have standards, but on this particular day we were roped into this one. Jennifer Westfeldt wrote, directed, and stared in this slightly amusing rom-com that offers you and hour and a half of fulfilled expectations. The moment Friends With Kids starts you already know the end, and as usual the perfectly acceptable retort to this type of film is that it is all about the journey. The only trouble with stock answers is that they normally come attached to sub par films. The journey Friends With Kids offers is the very American institution of monogamy. From the offset we have two best friends who sleep around in an attempt to find, "the one," this is not their fault because popular culture dictates that soulmates exist so we cannot foul them for their search. What comes next is the fundamental flaw of having a child - not that child rearing is a flaw but the instilled notion that it is what one ...