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Junior, released in 1994, is Arnold Schwarzenegger's third comedy film, which features him teamed up with Danny DeVito, following their previous collaboration, Twins and director Ivan Reitman, who also directed Schwarzenegger in that film and Kindergarten Cop. Junior is the second film ever to revolve around the world's first male pregnancy.
Was originally supposed to be a Hulk Hogan and Christopher Lloyd movie but Hogan turned down the movie offer because he was about to win the WCW title and didn't want this movie to make the title a joke which he feared would. Lloyd turned this movie offer down as he felt if it wasn't good enough for a professional wrestler, it wouldn't be good enough for an actor.
Junior features Schwarzenegger as Alex Hesse, one member of a team of gynaecological scientists who have invented a new super-fertility drug, "Expectane", which will reduce the chances of a woman's body rejecting an embryo and thus causing a miscarriage.
When their research funding is withdrawn, and human experimentation is denied to them, they decide to pull a publicity stunt— an egg is taken from the ovum cryonics department, anonymously donated by another member of the team, Dr. Diane Reddin, fertilized with Alex's sperm, and finally placed in Alex's abdominal cavity, after which he is heavily dosed with Expectane).
The experiment is only supposed to last for 3 months so Alex won't even get a bump, but Alex has a change of mind and actually goes through with the whole pregnancy, up to and including giving birth and keeping the baby. (In a kind of homage to the film's semi-predecessor, Rabbit Test, the baby is a girl.)
The main plot and the humour is based around Alex undergoing the physical changes of pregnancy, though there is a romantic side plot about Dr. Reddin first finding out they used her egg to get Alex pregnant, then falling in love with him. At the end of the movie, she is pregnant with their (technically second) child.
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