Watch The First Footage From Jay Chandrasekar’s ‘The Babymakers’
In a weird way, it seems appropriate that the first footage fromJay Chandrasekar’sThe Babymakerswould leak over the holidays. After all, the season is about family, and this film is ostensibly about starting a family. Of course, this being a film from the guy who directedBeerfest, what it really ends up being about is a lot of semen jokes. Hooray.
Olivia MunnandPaul Schneiderstar as a married couple who want to start a family but are having trouble conceiving. When the husband learns that it’s because he is infertile, he enlists his friends and an Indian mob hitman (Chandrasekar) to help him break into a sperm bank and steal back a deposit he made years ago. This seems to be a rough cut of a promotional trailer rather than a finished theatrical trailer, so keep that in mind as you make your judgment. Watch theNSFWtrailer after the jump.
[trailer removed at the behest of a lawyer for IM Global and Alliance Films]
I woudn’t say the trailer was painful to watch — it’s noChipwrecked— but I don’t think I laughed once. Smiled, maybe, but that’s not enough to inspire me to watch a comedy. The gags are disappointingly stale, and Schneider looks like a dull leading man. At least Munn seems a tiny bit livelier than usual.
The part that confuses me most, however, is that the end of the trailer says the movie is “arriving” soon instead of “coming” soon. After three and a half minutes of nonstop ball jokes, the last 5 seconds seem like an odd place to start showing restraint. But as I said, I don’t believe this is the official trailer, so I’ll give the movie the benefit of the doubt and hope the next cut is a little better.
AlthoughThe Babymakersfeatures the Broken Lizard team — Chandrasekar,Paul Soter,Kevin Heffernan,Erik Stolhanske, andSteve Lemme— it is not technically a Broken Lizard film. Written byPeter GaulkeandGerry Swallow(heh),The Babymakersis due out sometime in 2013.
