No doubt the makers of this film had one major supposition in mind when planning and making "Junior." That would be that anyone with any biological knowledge about the human body would suspend it and accept this film's premise. So then, a human male could ingest a fertilized human egg from a woman and an embryo would implant Itself and grow in his stomach -- apparently, the large intestine. Of course, it would be immune to the powerful stomach acids that reduce a piece of beef to a clump of waste in a matter of hours. Of course, it would permeate the wall of the stomach to form its life sac for exchange of nutrients with the host. And so on, and so on.
So, once the audience members essentially shut down their brains, they will be able to see the humor in this theme, and be responsive to the comedy that follows. So the thinking must have gone. And, what might the comedy be, but a male acting out nuances and reactions of a woman in pregnancy. Most viewers didn't find much humor in that - well, after the first one or two times. And the script otherwise didn't have enough comedy to overcome the unfunny weird premise.
The movie public of 1994 didn't buy it at all. The film lost several million. U. S. Ticket sales didn't even match half of the budget, and the world gross didn't even cover the film's budget -- $108 million vs $60 million. The studio gets about 50% of the ticket sales.
With a budget that size for those stars in 1994, one would guess that Emma Thompson was offered a wad to make this movie. Otherwise, it's hard to imagine how she could have agreed to be in such a turkey of a film. This is a far cry from "Twins," which had some pretty good comedy with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.
This film is also billed as sci-fi. It's much closer to that that any real comedy. But mostly, it's a real dud and waste of money.
So, once the audience members essentially shut down their brains, they will be able to see the humor in this theme, and be responsive to the comedy that follows. So the thinking must have gone. And, what might the comedy be, but a male acting out nuances and reactions of a woman in pregnancy. Most viewers didn't find much humor in that - well, after the first one or two times. And the script otherwise didn't have enough comedy to overcome the unfunny weird premise.
The movie public of 1994 didn't buy it at all. The film lost several million. U. S. Ticket sales didn't even match half of the budget, and the world gross didn't even cover the film's budget -- $108 million vs $60 million. The studio gets about 50% of the ticket sales.
With a budget that size for those stars in 1994, one would guess that Emma Thompson was offered a wad to make this movie. Otherwise, it's hard to imagine how she could have agreed to be in such a turkey of a film. This is a far cry from "Twins," which had some pretty good comedy with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.
This film is also billed as sci-fi. It's much closer to that that any real comedy. But mostly, it's a real dud and waste of money.