YMMV / Nine Months

• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Crazy Fat Ethel screams at the title characters during a traffic mishap, calling him an "asshole".
  • Arnie the Dinosaur is played by Charles Martinet, who would gain widespread international recognition a year later as the voice of Mario in Super Mario 64^note Martinet had already been voicing Mario for several years in various side projects, but Super Mario 64 was his first stint in the role to become a major critical and commercial success.
  • Ashley Johnson as The Dwyer's romance novel obsessed daughter.
• Strawman Has a Point: The film is all about a man (Samuel) who finds out his girlfriend (Rebecca) is pregnant; needless to say, it's a surprise pregnancy and neither of them are really sure if they want to go through with it at first. Samuel himself doesn't really accept it until close to the end of the pregnancy, but Rebecca accepts it pretty early on and starts preparing for motherhood. Great pains are taken to paint Samuel as wrong for being reluctant to have a kid, veering into Strawman territory at several points, but the kicker has to be early on when Rebecca gets worried that the cat Samuel owns might be a problem, as a cat can lie on a baby's face and smother it. She tries to convince Samuel to get rid of the cat, and we're supposed to side with her and think Samuel is an uncaring jerk for putting his pet ahead of his baby...except that, as Samuel says, the cat is fifteen years old, so it would be a surprise if it lived long enough to see the baby born, the cat has no teeth left, and the poor thing hardly moves. No vet would agree to put down an otherwise healthy pet that's just old, and giving it up to a shelter would be heartless because a cat that old is unadoptable, so it would be put down after a few months anyway instead of living its final days in comfort with a loving owner. Not to mention, the very idea that a cat would lie down on a baby's face and smother it to death is, at best, implausible. Samuel point-blank refuses to get rid of the cat and the matter is dropped for the rest of the movie.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Samuel is obviously meant to be portrayed as selfish and immature for not being enthusiastic over his girlfriend's pregnancy, but given that the pregnancy was completely unplanned and required a lot of demands on him (such as getting rid of his beloved cat, which he refuses to do), you can understand why he had reservations.
• Values Dissonance: The film goes out of its way to shame anyone who is over 30 but isn't married with kids. After the 21st Century saw a rise in population and an economy that hasn't fully adapted to it, it's not uncommon for adults the same age as Sam and Rebecca to lack the financial stability needed to raise a family.

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