Thursday, 11 July 2024

VOD: Maybe Baby a.k.a. Bytte Bytte Baby (dir: Barbara Topsoe-Rothenborg, 2023)

"The cake is in the oven!"
 
In this Danish comedy, successful middle-aged power couple and an alternative-living younger couple cross paths at a fertility clinic, but when both women fall pregnant, an 'administrative error' means that the eggs were mixed up and they are carrying each other's baby.  As class, values and personalities clash inevitably, all four players in the two main couples play the comedy well, led by the wonderful and indomitable Mille Dinesen (TV's Rita).  The film does briefly address issues such as age, pregnancy and the workplace and nature vs. nurture, but for the most part this is a pleasantly engaging comedy with a lot of good lines (mostly at the expense of men) that is delivered well.  

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