Ninjababy

(2021)

★ 7.1 IMDb · 125 votes

Genres: Drama, Comedy

Year: 2021

Runtime: 104 мин

Country: Norway

Director: Yngvild Sve Flikke

Cast: Kristine Kujath Thorp, Надер Хадеми, Arthur Berning, Tora Christine Dietrichson, Silya Nymoen, Герман Томмераас, Trine Wiggen, Janne Heltberg, Kjærsti Odden Skjeldal, Evelyn Rasmussen Osazuwa

Plot

When Rakel finds out she's six months pregnant after a one-night stand, her world changes. She is absolutely not ready to be a mother, but since abortion is no longer an option, adoption is the only answer. That's when Ninjababy, an animated character who makes Rakel's life a living hell, turns up.

Rakel loves to draw comics, try her hand at aikido, drink beer and party. When her best friend Ingrid points out her large breasts and altered sense of smell to Rakel and persuades her to take a pregnancy test, she gets a nasty surprise: she is indeed pregnant. Rakel already had many plans for her life, wanted to become an astronaut or a forester, but being a mother is definitely not one of them. But: "This is Norway. I can have an abortion," she tells herself and drives to the clinic. There, to her horror, the doctor tells her that she is already seven months pregnant and an abortion is no longer possible. Not every pregnant woman gets a belly. Thus begins the search for the child's father. Unfortunately, Mo, the likeable aikido teacher who smells of butter and accompanies Rakel to the clinic appointment, is out of the question in this case. Three others do, and in the end she has to accept that Pikkjesus is probably the one with whom she unintentionally fathered a child during casual sex. This unsympathetic loser, of all people. Rakel, desperately angry about her fate, scribbles her unborn baby with a Zorro mask on a piece of paper and gives it the nickname Ninjababy. The little cartoon ninja baby is as amusingly obnoxious as Rakel herself, but above all unimpressed by its own father: "Did you really let him fuck you?" it taunts the man Rakel refers to as Dick Jesus.