L!fe Happens pokes fun at the notion of young, semi-irresponsible people getting pregnant; it’s the perfect way to cinematically celebrate Snooki’s forthcoming bundle of joisy. Luckily, this film skips over the prenatal mania that we’ve already experienced in comedies like Knocked Up and Baby Mama and gets right to the (scary) good stuff—the actual existence and sheer reality of a child. Unlike Knocked Up, Kat Coiro’s first feature film does not deliver a consistent or coherent flow of comedy or drama. The writing is best described as manic-depressive—the highs are high, the lows, low. Thankfully, some of the performances help make the film a “good enough” comedy that also manages to express a true concern for the children of the world—and the children who give birth to them.
The film opens with Kim (Krysten Ritter) and Deena (Kate Bosworth) engaging in what will later prove a life-altering argument over who gets the last condom. (Deena wins.) The next time we see the pair, they are in a car jamming to the only song white girls should jam to in a comedy, Chamillionaire’s “Ridin’ Dirty.” Pan to the back seat, where baby makes three. Kim, formerly one-third of a carefree trio of single ladies (Rachel Bilson plays the other friend, half-heartedly delivering a few badly written lines), has given birth to the ultimate buzz kill—a beautiful baby boy. A few breastfeeding fails (in the gas station, at the mall) and her (social) life appears to be over.
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