Thursday
04Sep2008
Lindsay Lohan's 'Labor Pains' Trailer Laborious, Painful
Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 5:15AM 
In the red corner: A lightweight movie trailer about a
girl who fakes a pregnancy to keep her job, starring a woman who has done just
about everything to jeopardize her jobs...Labor
Pains!
And in the blue corner: A movie critic and writer who
can't understand for the life of him why this trailer is generating even modest
buzz, Colin Boyd!
Seriously, I saw the news of this trailer's existence on
YouTube and it was like people had seen the second coming. OK, maybe that's too
dramatic. Think less the second coming of Christ and more the second coming of,
oh, Christian Brando.
Still, it was a bit like somebody was coming back to
life. But I gotta tell ya, I don't think that someone is
Lindsay Lohan, or more specifically, her
flatlining career. Labor Pains just does not look that special. It's a
comedy steeped in formulaic traditions. Even the trailer has the stereotypes in
full flower: The tyrannical boss (Chris
Parnell), the helpful friend at the office (Cheryl
Hines), the geek at the office (Kevin
Covais) and, of course, Lilo, playing a character I guess we're
supposed to sympathize with. But won't that be hard when everyone hates her real
life persona and her character in the movie is a bad employee who lies about a
pregnancy just to avoid a well-deserved firing?
In a way, it's a miracle she's never tried this approach
on another movie set.
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Reader Comments (2)
She looks like she is 40 in this movie
It's the mileage more than the years in her case.