Review of Kimberly

Kimberly (1999)
4 "dads" = bad, bad, bad, bad...(w/Spoilers)
19 June 2001
Warning: Spoilers
This includes "spoilers" but the thing is already so thoroughly rotten, it shouldn't matter, unless you want to be surprised at just how unbelievably lame a flick can be...

You know the kind of film you somehow find yourself accidentally watching and are unable to look away, as if it were a car wreck... Kimberly is one of those.

Sure she's adorable, but... really! In brief, she's coaching four buddies on a rowing team, and they all vow not to date her, but of course each does, without any of the others knowing... When she turns up pregnant, she tells the boys she wants them all to be dads... the guys bicker a little, but agree.

It's ludicrous! No one seems to want any kind of paternity testing, or cares that there's only a 1/4 chance they ARE the father (well, the one guy who KNOWS he's not, just pretends to not know because he's so darned sensitive)... The only one who calls her "a slut" is the one was cheating on his own girlfriend, so I guess that's supposed to nullify that prospect. (Of the remaining two, one's a spastic manchild who passed out drunk and doesn't know he never slept with Kimmie, and the other is a neurotic who actually IS the father, unless there was a 5th gun...)

So they're all being supportive, buying her things, arranging the medical care, wigging out their family members, etc. and when it comes to delivery time, things get all wacky with loads of "screwball hijinx" as everyone rushes to the hospital. The delivery scene continues this jarring "comedic" tilt...

In the end, the non-fathers discover they were somewhat misled by the Row Ho' as I like to call her, but golly gee, Kim's such a swell gal, they don't mind that this whole thing basically ruined their lives in one way or another. Never mind about the real dad... the guy whose main solo scenes show him in therapy... sure, let him think she's screwing EVERYONE, he can handle it.

Not to spoil EVERYTHING, I won't tell you whether the "rowing team" (out-of-shape and mentally disturbed as they are) wins the big race against the obligatorily clad-in-black bad guy team :)
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