Manbaby 2022 *Film/Movie*

[toddlerjunior1982]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3895984/

Comedian Sal Howard has a big problem: his wife, scientist Dr. Dana Howard, doesn't want kids. To save his marriage, Sal tricks Dana into thinking he's become a real baby to show Dana the joys of motherhood.

[DailyDi]

In the US at least you can rent it on Amazon for 2 bucks. https://amzn.to/3Zu0TEe

[DailyDi]

I made it through about 5 minutes and it was already too cringe to watch, lol. Skip it.

[Cute_Kitten]

The movie sounds like it could be the plot of an ABDL story. I wonder if the person who wrote it is an ABDL? 

[babykeiff]

5 hours ago, DailyDi said:

I made it through about 5 minutes and it was already too cringe to watch, lol. Skip it.

I though that you would have first looked at the trailer.

From my view of the trailer and the description of the story - the male lead is a commedian that dresses up as a baby onstage and uses same as material for his stand-up. That might work as a speciality act once or twice before it gets boring. As a result, there is little to the story that is anyway belivable, and the film seems to go downhil from there. Even the image of the male lead in a cot, it is easy to see that he is wearing a cheap pull-up.

It reminds me of the failure of the film 'Ted' where the concept is good - a Teddy Bear becomes real - but where it is implemented is not in childhood, but more as a bad friend during youth that introduces the lead to drugs etc.

The concept another mentioned that Manbaby is wrote by an ABDL seems far fetched - the story line lacks the cuteness that is within most ABDLs. It is more likely that it is wrote by someone who knows about the ABDL world as an outsider.

This type of 'ABDL' for a story has been repeated by TV and Film many times

• ER, where Christine wore a pullup to handle a long surgery
• Fifty Shades of Grey, where Christian convinces Anatasia to wear a diaper
• Criminal Minds, Bruce Eiger and his AB nursery etc,

.... and each in their own way although used AB themes, none shows the love and or cuteness. In the Criminal Minds episode, there is some of this within the interaction in Forever Baby shop between Grissom, Nick and the saleswoman - where one might suspect that the authors may have a deep interest in the ABDL world to get this so accurate, but it is more likely that the authors have excelent research agents.

Simply, Manbaby is another tat film that is trying to use a diaper / baby play as something to make it more interesting, similar to 50 Shades and other tat films.

[ValentinesStuff]

5 hours ago, Cute_Kitten said:

The movie sounds like it could be the plot of an ABDL story. I wonder if the person who wrote it is an ABDL? 

I'm fairly sure I've read more than one man acts likes a baby to convince his wife that they should have a baby, and ends remaining the baby story.

 

Given that the movie was Kickstarted, I'm guessing someone heavily involved either is or knows an AB.

[Cute_Kitten]

6 hours ago, ValentinesStuff said:

I'm fairly sure I've read more than one man acts likes a baby to convince his wife that they should have a baby, and ends remaining the baby story.

 

Given that the movie was Kickstarted, I'm guessing someone heavily involved either is or knows an AB.

The plot seemed familiar like I've come across it before in stories but I couldn't think of any specific stories off the top of my head. 

[babykeiff]

12 hours ago, Cute_Kitten said:

The movie sounds like it could be the plot of an ABDL story. I wonder if the person who wrote it is an ABDL? 

That doesn't seem likely in my opinion.

Reasons for my opinion:

1. The charachter Sal Howard, is dressed up as the halloween view of a baby, and this is supposed to be comedy
2. Sal Howard when 'regressed' is still wearing the halloween view in the cot, but also wearing a cheap pull-up
3. This type of 'pull up' has been used multiple time in media as a stunt
4. This type of 'pull-up' has been used multiple times in 'porn sites' where exposure of genitalia is portryed, and not the childlike innocence
5. The acting is of a spoilt todder at times, and then a infant at others

Putting this all together, stating that this comes from someone with intimate knowledge of ABDL and/or who sees him/herself as a baby etc. is kind of very far fetched. The baby image that most have in this arena includes some if not all of the following -

• thick diapers
• plushies
• sleepers
• onesies
• baby prints
• cribs / cots
• bottles - with baby prints etc.
• pacifiers
• wanting to be diaper dependant
• baby play - colouring books / blocks / crayons etc

... and I don't think anyone within this world sees it as a source of comedy. It is not that we do not giggle etc., it is more like that we see it as part of ourselves. Also, very few would use it as source material in public - most of us wish to hide this part of ourselves from the world.

In relation to my other post, what in it confuses you?

[Babyqtboy]

12 hours ago, babykeiff said:

 

This type of 'ABDL' for a story has been repeated by TV and Film many times

• ER, where Christine wore a pullup to handle a long surgery
• Fifty Shades of Grey, where Christian convinces Anatasia to wear a diaper
• Criminal Minds, Bruce Eiger and his AB nursery etc,

 

Right plot devices, wrong shows:

Christine wears an adult diaper in Grey’s Anatomy 

Never seen or read Fifty Shades but I couldn’t find confirmation of that taking place anywhere 

and it was CSI not criminal minds with the Bruce Eiger character, the episode was called King Baby, I believe 🤷‍♂️

[babykeiff]

1 hour ago, Babyqtboy said:

Right plot devices, wrong shows:

Christine wears an adult diaper in Grey’s Anatomy 

Never seen or read Fifty Shades but I couldn’t find confirmation of that taking place anywhere 

and it was CSI not criminal minds with the Bruce Eiger character, the episode was called King Baby, I believe 🤷‍♂️

You are right - and I was pulling this from memory... which is not perfect. Thank you for the corrections.

Re 50 Shades... It is a conversation between Christian and Anatasia in their bedroom and not the dungeon. I can't recall if Anatasia did wear a diaper, but I do recall the conversation. The whole story, and the associated film was marketed as being risque / porn etc... were there was partial exposure which would have classed the book and/or film as 18+, but as hard core porn etc which people were led to believe - not really. Looking at the book as being good literature, I really don't think so. Looking at the film as being watchable is also wrong in my opinion. I suspect that if suggestion of hard porn was not in 50 Shades, not even the book would have been published.

This was the point I was trying to make - without the hint of fetishism / porn / outside normal vanilla behavior, none of the listed episodes would be anyway memorable. This is not an attack on the makers of CSI / Grey's Anatomy or 50 Shades, but more of showing my disappointment in where these shows went by adding something for sensationilism rather than for enhancing a story line. Each would have worked without the diaper added to the story line. Maybe the last scene / few lines in the CSI King Baby episode might have been changed from

Grissom: Why not? Where would you go if you had the connections and the cash to go anywhere you wanted?
Brass: I hear Fiji's nice.
Grissom: Eiger went further. He went all the way back to his childhood.
Brass: Yeah. I think I'd take Fiji.

...but apart from that, it didn't add to the core story of how corrupt Eiger was. All it did was try to explain Eiger's power and his fear. If this was anyway true, I doubt that Eiger's secret would have been kept.

I see similar on pay porn sites that advertise they cover ABDL interest, and when I look deeper, what is revealed is a person in a cheap pull up saying 'goo goo gaa gaa' as if that is anyway close to ABDL!

To quote @DailyDi,

19 hours ago, DailyDi said:

it was already too cringe to watch, lol. Skip it.

That sentiment I 100% agree with.

[Babyqtboy]

3 hours ago, babykeiff said:

You are right - and I was pulling this from memory... which is not perfect. Thank you for the corrections.

Re 50 Shades... It is a conversation between Christian and Anatasia in their bedroom and not the dungeon. I can't recall if Anatasia did wear a diaper, but I do recall the conversation. The whole story, and the associated film was marketed as being risque / porn etc... were there was partial exposure which would have classed the book and/or film as 18+, but as hard core porn etc which people were led to believe - not really. Looking at the book as being good literature, I really don't think so. Looking at the film as being watchable is also wrong in my opinion. I suspect that if suggestion of hard porn was not in 50 Shades, not even the book would have been published.

This was the point I was trying to make - without the hint of fetishism / porn / outside normal vanilla behavior, none of the listed episodes would be anyway memorable. This is not an attack on the makers of CSI / Grey's Anatomy or 50 Shades, but more of showing my disappointment in where these shows went by adding something for sensationilism rather than for enhancing a story line. Each would have worked without the diaper added to the story line. Maybe the last scene / few lines in the CSI King Baby episode might have been changed from

Grissom: Why not? Where would you go if you had the connections and the cash to go anywhere you wanted?
Brass: I hear Fiji's nice.
Grissom: Eiger went further. He went all the way back to his childhood.
Brass: Yeah. I think I'd take Fiji.

...but apart from that, it didn't add to the core story of how corrupt Eiger was. All it did was try to explain Eiger's power and his fear. If this was anyway true, I doubt that Eiger's secret would have been kept.

I see similar on pay porn sites that advertise they cover ABDL interest, and when I look deeper, what is revealed is a person in a cheap pull up saying 'goo goo gaa gaa' as if that is anyway close to ABDL!

To quote @DailyDi,

That sentiment I 100% agree with.

I absolutely agree with everything you said. It’s almost like ABDL is the new edgy cringe for TV and Hollywood, anything to make us look ridiculous and creepy. Like I said, I never read Fifty Shades, but my understanding from talking to people that had, that it was very soft porn, equivalent to what they use to air on Cinamax after hours 🤷‍♂️😂 the BBC show, Diary of a Call Girl did an episode where the main character took a job and was shocked when she got to the John’s apartment and he was dressed like a baby and wanted to be babied for the time he already paid for. I found that to be very tasteless and 1 dimensional too. I honestly can’t think of any movie or TV show that has ever been fair or kind to ABDL. Stephen King actually mentioned ABDL in Gerald’s Game in one brief paragraph and doesn’t portray it as anything other than a niche kink that some people engage in 

[ValentinesStuff]

4 hours ago, Babyqtboy said:

I absolutely agree with everything you said. It’s almost like ABDL is the new edgy cringe for TV and Hollywood, anything to make us look ridiculous and creepy. Like I said, I never read Fifty Shades, but my understanding from talking to people that had, that it was very soft porn, equivalent to what they use to air on Cinamax after hours 🤷‍♂️😂 the BBC show, Diary of a Call Girl did an episode where the main character took a job and was shocked when she got to the John’s apartment and he was dressed like a baby and wanted to be babied for the time he already paid for. I found that to be very tasteless and 1 dimensional too. I honestly can’t think of any movie or TV show that has ever been fair or kind to ABDL. Stephen King actually mentioned ABDL in Gerald’s Game in one brief paragraph and doesn’t portray it as anything other than a niche kink that some people engage in 

New? Not really, especially depending upon how strict you want to call it.

The Milky Life was made in the 90s.

The early 90s was also the heyday of ABDLs on "talkshows."

But for TV and movies with adults wearing diapers we can go farther back. In the 70s Monty Python did a bit with gangs of adult babies kidnapping men. The Baby came out then. Keep It Up, Jack, a 70s sex comedy had prostitute in diapers and getting her diaper changed. On Bewitched, after Tabitha's birth Darrin is repeatedly teleported into the hospital nursery, the last time with a pacifier stuck in mouth. The Flintstones had Fred and Barney diapered or babied several times. Bugs Bunny ended up as a substitute baby in a couple of cartoons, as did other characters. 

 

Almost all of these,going back to the thirties, were done for laughs.

[babykeiff]

18 hours ago, ValentinesStuff said:

New? Not really, especially depending upon how strict you want to call it.

The Milky Life was made in the 90s.

The early 90s was also the heyday of ABDLs on "talkshows."

But for TV and movies with adults wearing diapers we can go farther back. In the 70s Monty Python did a bit with gangs of adult babies kidnapping men. The Baby came out then. Keep It Up, Jack, a 70s sex comedy had prostitute in diapers and getting her diaper changed. On Bewitched, after Tabitha's birth Darrin is repeatedly teleported into the hospital nursery, the last time with a pacifier stuck in mouth. The Flintstones had Fred and Barney diapered or babied several times. Bugs Bunny ended up as a substitute baby in a couple of cartoons, as did other characters. 

 

Almost all of these,going back to the thirties, were done for laughs.

It is almost acceptable to use a diaper for laughs,

• 1954 - Baby Buggy Bunny - Bugs Bunny Cartoon - 'BabyFace' hides swag downs Bugs rabbit hole and dons baby attire as a way to get it back*
• 1943 - Baby Puss - Tom & Jerry Cartoon - Tom (cat) ends up in diapers and being fed a bottle by Nancy, a child playing house.
• 2006 - Little Man - almost a copy of 1954 'Baby Buggy Bunny' script
• 2017 - Boss Baby - animation - The new baby acts like an adult when others are not around, and is the Boss of 'Baby Corp.' a spy based secret agency.

...plus loads of others.

and the programs you mentioned did that. Some other programs use diapers as a functional object

• 1990 Awakenings - set in 1969, Paitent Leonord Lowe (Robert DeNero) has 'sleeping sickness' and is placed in a diaper in bed after treatment fails.
• Grey's Anotomy S6E7 'Give Peace a Chance' - Dr Christina Yang & Lexi Grey wear a pull-ups rather than reducing fluids in order to handle a long surgery.

... some of, if not all medical dramas and films where the paitents are long term bed bound.

Diapers in TV and/or film have existed, as @ValentinesStuff stated, for a very long time, and have either been used as comedy or as functional. In some media presentations, the associated baby actions have been envoked by the relevant actor/actress' but none, I can recall, have been as cringeworthy as 'MANBABY'.

Where they have been used as comedy, the relevant actor/actress played it as an older toddler, never as a spoilt tantrum throwing infant. There are a few exceptions, but that was done to enhance the story - i.e. in Little Man, Calvin cries to get car keys so he can escape with the jewel. He also acts infantile as a distraction to defeat Mr. Walken (the mobster) and his cohorts. - The baby/diaper concept in this, and most films I have seen, tends to push the baby side into the background where they focus on the main story.

There is a comedy TV series called 'Big Baby' from 2011, in where a couple adopt an unusually large newborn baby called Wayne. It lasted for 14x30 minute episodes, but seems to have grown old very fast. That was cringeworthy, and is, I suspect, probably the source for the film Manbaby.

As a parent, I would cringe at that type of comedy AFTER my children have pased the stage, but similar to most parents, I also find it, in someway, too close to home and critical in how I dealt with my own children when they were babies. When I looked at that type of comedy before having children, I found it funny, but also didn't understand the reactions of parents with young children. I do see it now, and the associated stress parents of young children are handling

- and how 'spoilt / very dependant baby' as comedy fails.

[toddlerjunior1982]

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