by Steve » Tue Apr 06, 2010 11:42 am
I agree that it might be difficult to shoehorn the entire cast from the first movie into a new one. Then again I ask myself, do you have to? In American wedding using the pared-down cast lent to the realism. Thirty years later I can tell you that there are people who I knew well in high school and collage that I haven’t seen in 25 years. That’s life, that reality. Often people you know from one life stage don’t transit into the next.
The way I envision American Baby would be the seven or eight months between Michel telling Jim she’s pregnant and the actual birth. All Jim’s crazy anxieties and over the top attempts to be the best dad ever. You could probably pull it off with Michel, Jim, Finch, Michel’s sister the grand parents and any one of the other principals. I don’t even think it would need Stiffler though as Michel’s sister’s ex-husband desperately trying to win her back and fowling it up all the time it could be funny. (If people haven’t noticed I’m not that fond of the Stifflers/Barnies of the world).
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