![]() ![]() I know this sounds odd, but Schwarzenegger is perfect for the role. The movie's comedy, and some other scenes that are sort of touching, all come out of the man's experience as he begins to feel motherly toward his unborn child. The movie wisely never even attempts to explain how this is possible in a person without a womb hard science is not the strong point here. The experiment is not only a success, but Schwarzenegger actually becomes pregnant. The two doctors borrow an egg, Arnold donates the sperm, they inject the result into his body, and Arnold starts taking daily doses of their miracle drug. It's a good thing Arbogast is a persuasive talker DeVito plays him with a conspiratorial charm, talking about the "beauty of the plan" as if it's something anyone would be lucky to participate in. This is a dubious procedure, because Arnold must first be implanted with a fertilized human egg - unusual for a woman, unheard of for a man. ![]() But Arbogast is convinced they're on the trail of a fertility drug that will make millions, and in a last-ditch effort, he persuades Hesse to experiment by trying the drug on himself. Even his partner, a fellow researcher named Arbogast ( Danny DeVito), doesn't like him ("You have all the warmth and charm of a wall-eyed pike"). As an actor with big muscles and a balky Austrian accent, you'd think he would be limited, and yet he knows himself so well that it gives him freedom: Is a pregnant Arnold any harder to believe, really, than Arnold as Conan the Barbarian? He begins in "Junior" as a scientist named Hesse, with no charm and no personality, an automaton whose only reaction, when his research funding is yanked, is to pack his bags and head back to Europe. ![]() He has an uncanny idea of what will and won't work, and since you walk in expecting almost nothing to work, the result is a sort of deliverance. The wonder is not that Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a pregnant person in "Junior," but that he plays one so well. ![]()
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