Sweet to the point of risking a cavity, this well-meaning family musical surrounds several war veterans in college on the G.I. bill who engage in the battle of the sexes with their wives over household chores, taking care of the baby and being part of the football team. Donald O'Connor and Gloria DeHaven play the lead couple, parents of a sweet little tot nicknamed Boobikins. If you can stomach the rest of the football player dads with similarly nicknamed tots, a few rather overly "cute" songs and a genuine battle of the sexes lead by science professor/football coach Charles Coburn and his rival, professor Barbara Brown, you'll find this harmless fun. It just gets to be a bit too much, and it is difficult to see things from the female perspective when it all seems to be their way or no way. O'Connor gets a few athletic dances and is quite remarkable in them, but is defeated by a script that seems to have been written by a novice who wanted to write something "meaningful" but ended up with something cloying and sometimes cringe-worthy.
Review of Yes Sir, That's My Baby
