It's not necessarily a romcom to begin with. It's clear Anna and Matt have a connection but it doesn't transpire into something romantic, though the bond is there. Two awkward, lonely people who share an unfamiliar connection as a surrogate mother and a single father. The actors made the best out of it, I feel. Many great moments that give you hints of a good movie; each moment feels like it's leading to "that scene" that's going to make you fall in love with the movie but the scene never comes.

Ends with a cliff hanger but not the type you'd bang your head on about "What's next? How could they end it there?". Still a good watch, slightly above average, just that it's forgettable.

A pretty blah romcom about the complicated relationship that builds between a forty something single man and the much younger woman he has hired to be his surrogate. I guess it's pleasant enough and I wasn't ever exactly bored. But when not being bored is the bar you're measuring a movie against, it's a sign that it could have have been much better.

The film's biggest problem is its sluggish pace, death to what should be a zippy comedy. Ed Helms and Patti Harrison work well together, but they've been directed to act like natural, real people instead of actors reading a script. Fair enough. But the result is that for the first hour or so, every interaction between them is stilted and cringey and goes on forever as they stutter and stammer over what they're trying to articulate. More true to real life maybe, but it's also a reminder of why there are things like screenwriters who have already articulated thoughts for the characters and give them nice lines to say. The approach used here might work in something more serious, but it kills any comic timing the actors might naturally have.

Not a bad movie, but one that makes you wonder if you wouldn't have been better off picking something else to watch on Hulu.

Grade: B.

Not a bad way to spend 90 minutes, but ultimately felt like a bit of fluff.

Highlights:

• The window into some of the things a woman goes through during pregnancy.

• The warm feeling I got from the platonic love between the main characters.

• Patti Harrison and Ed Helms, who are both charming in this.

• The story is quite contrived, and borderline cheesy.

• Very limited character development.

• Most of the humor falls flat.

• The shots at Woody Allen felt cheap.

• The abruptness of the ending seemed like a cop-out, conveniently avoiding the inevitable conflicting emotions of this scenario.