Baby Mama Movie
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Would you put your eggs...in this basket?
Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she's finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. Simple enough ... After learning from the steely head of their surrogacy center that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode: reading childcare books, baby-proofing the apartment and researching top pre-schools. But the executive's well-organized strategy is turned upside down when her Baby Mama shows up at her doorstep with no place to live. An unstoppable force meets an immovable object as structured Kate tries to turn vibrant Angie into the perfect expectant mom. In a battle of wills, they will struggle their way through preparation for the baby's arrival. And in the middle of this tug-of-war, they'll discover two kinds of family: the one you're born to and the one you make.
| Amy Poehler | Angie Ostrowiski |
| Tina Fey | Kate Holbrook |
| Greg Kinnear | Rob Ackerman |
| Dax Shepard | Carl Loomis |
| Romany Malco | Oscar |
| Sigourney Weaver | Chaffee Bicknell |
| Steve Martin | Barry |
| Maura Tierney | Caroline |
| Stephen Mailer | Dan |
| Holland Taylor | Rose Holbrook |
| James Rebhorn | Judge |
| Denis O'Hare | Dr. Manheim |
| Kevin Collins | Architect/Rick |
| Will Forte | Scott |
| Fred Armisen | Stroller Salesman |
| Michael McCullers |
6.30 out of 10 (3337 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Not that good!
posted on 18 Aug 2009For two of the funniest comedians, the movie was awful. Fast forwarded it and never got any better! Waste of time and waste of money! Tina Fey is such a great writer, I thought that she would be so great in the comedy. The previews were so great, but they only showed the best parts of the movie. My husband even thought that for a chick flick, it sucked. What is up with that. Movie was very slow ans boring. I will not recommend it to anyone at this time. I would like my money back for this one! BOO from us here in Arizona. Thanks but no thanks. Who does this kind of stupid stuff to make people think that you are pregnant. I thought that it was going to be so funny, I have had my own children and I have helped others have children. It could have been more along the lines of reality.
Godawfull-
posted on 18 Aug 2009It's hard to say which is worse, this so-called comedy or the people who extole it on this site. Have our youths comic chops been so dumbed down that they really think this kind of clichéd crap is funny. It wouldn't be such a big deal if not for the fact that films like this one are produced at the expense of innovated and experimental work. I saw this while in the hospital ( so it's like seeing a film in a POW camp- you're grateful for anything you see) and it was impossible to watch. Boring, predictable and most importantly...not funny. Here's a message to young people today: If you don't laugh, it's not funny. It seems a simple thought but people today have set such a low bar for entertainment that they have lost the ability to judge- they expect nothing for their admission. Too bad we all have to live with the result. P.S. What did they do, kidnap Greg Kinner to get him in this film?
Funny and most definitely entertaining
posted on 16 Aug 2009I had mild expectations for Baby Mama like it looked like it would not be as funny as i would have thought, and the humor would be kinda unfunny and just tasteless, well i was wrong.I found Baby Mama to be none of those things for it had fresh comedy and good acting.In fact Tina Fey and Amy Pohler may be the next big thing in Hollywood comedy, which i hope happens.Like the film they both were so entertaining and funny to watch, and had nice and cool character structure.Thought at times the story seemed a little out there and some stuff in the plot was a little predictable its still a good film.Overall everybody should see this film if they are wanting a good laugh, and they didn't show all the funny parts in the previews.So go out and watch Baby Mama because its worth anyones time and money, and you will be glad you have seen it. 7.7 out of 10 stars
Dragged by wife, but was surprised...Wasn't the only one dragged as well.
posted on 08 Aug 2009Baby Mama (2008) Reviewed by the Alpha Male I hate chick flicks as much as the next guy. What do I care if some broad is needing a baby or wants to be a mama? I am an Alpha Male, give me blood, give me guts, give me sex, and a well done steak and I am a happy man people.Instead the wifey drags me off to be bored to tears watching this film about a baby and a mama. While the wife starts giggling early, I wanted to start snoring when I suddenly glanced around the theater to see I wasn't the only King of the cave who was horn swaggled into seeing this film. I felt like crying out to my fellow cave dwellers but the fear of angering the dormant beast to my left was something I had not yet contemplated. I asked myself, what should I do... should I help a fellow in need, or risk the wrath of the she beasts just waiting for us to make our move... so I covertly disguised my actions by letting her know I had to relieve myself... all the while the tinge of Tina Fey's voice raised the hair on my back like nails on a chalkboard.As I walked for the theater exit, a fellow cave dweller took this as a chance to escape as well. We both stood in the lobby contemplating what was the best way of escaping the torture that was forever burning the retinas out of our eyes. After 5 minutes and a box of goobers, we nearly gave up when suddenly... the wife comes out of the theater running for the bathroom... Like the caring husband I am I ask "are you OK?" she just covers her mouth and runs into the ladies room when it suddenly hits me... this movie is so bad it made my wife vomit... now I jump and cheer with glee as I know this means I can go home and do manly things like play with power tools without the proper safety equipment, or set fire to something and dance around the flames chanting to the mighty god of fire that he is my one true master... or that he will do me a favor and burn every print of Baby Mama so no other Alpha Male will have to suffer again.
Good Film, But Not Satisfying
posted on 27 Jul 2009"Baby Mama" is the story of a woman (Tiny Fey) who has chosen her career over a relationship, and by age 37 she's ready to have kids. But lo and behold, she can't because she has a T-shaped uterus. Bummer. Call in redneck Angie (Amy Poehler) and her redneck boyfriend (Dax Shepherd), who are recruited to carry the baby for her. What seems simple enough quickly escalates into pure hysteria.I liked "Baby Mama". Tina Fey is awesome, and Amy Poehler is alright. Dax is always a winner. Even Steve Martin shows up... I'm no Martin fan, but his small role was just enough to make him palatable. And then you have Greg Kinnear. I'm not into dudes, but if I was... Greg Kinnear would be my man. So the cast is good, which is really the cornerstone of a good comedy.Where I found the film lacking was the way it was torn between a post-SNL comedy (like Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell would do) and a chick flick. It wanted to be funny, and often was, but had a far more emotional side to it. Maybe this was to appeal to a female audience, I don't know. But it left me feeling left out, whereas other SNL comedies don't usually have a romantic or moral aspect until the last five or ten minutes. The undertone was steady in this flick.I'd like to write a better review, but I can't. Without giving the jokes away, all I can really say is the film is largely predictable. There's a small plot twist about a third of the way in, but after that it goes exactly where you'd expect it to. Even the "shocking" conclusion could be seen from ten minutes into the film. So, I guess I can recommend this film to women who like comedies... especially if you're pregnant. But I don't know who else will really feel at home with this one.
You Shall Not Commit Adultery - Ex 20:14 Deut 5:18
posted on 21 Jul 20092390 - ... (Concubinage, rejection of marriage as such, or inability to make long term commitments) ... offend against the dignity of marriage; they destroy the very idea of the family; they weaken the sense of fidelity. They are contrary to moral law. The sexual act must take place exclusively within marriage. Outside of marriage it always constitutes a grave sin and excludes one from sacramental communion. 2378 - A child is not something owed to one, but is a gift. The supreme gift of marriage is a human person. A child may not be considered a piece of property, an idea to which an alleged "right to a child" would lead. In this area, only the child possesses genuine rights: the right "to be the fruit of the specific act of conjugal love of his parents" and " the right to be respected as a person from the moment of his conception"
My crush on Tina Fey has nothing to do with it
posted on 21 Jul 2009Java Man Reviews "Baby Mama" (Rated PG-13). Directed & Written by Michael McCullers. Starring Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Romany Malco, Sigourney Weaver, Steve Martin, Maura Tierney, Holland Taylor, John Hodgman & Siobhan Fallon Hogan. Originally appeared in LakewoodBuzz.com May, 2008.OVERVIEW: Kate Holbrook (Fey) is a single, attractive 37-year-old vice-president of a fast-growing organic foods chain. When her humorously eccentric, pony-tailed boss (Martin) puts her in charge of the opening of a new store in Philadelphia, he tells her that it's "her baby." But Kate's biological clock is already ticking and what's on her mind is a real baby. After a trip to a sperm bank and a fertility specialist (Hodgman), she finds that her chances of conceiving are one in a million. Her next stop is a surrogacy agency, headed by Chafee Bicknell (Weaver), a woman in her 50s who aggravates her clients by being constantly pregnant. The surrogate mother assigned to Kate is Angie Ostrowiski (Poehler), a wisecracking working girl from the wrong side of town. When she splits from her loutish common-law husband (Shepard), Angie moves in with Kate, who has already begun to baby-proof her uptown apartment. Once they find themselves in the same living space, the two former SNL Weekend Update anchors channel Oscar and Felix, the original Odd Couple. Of course the rules of movie romance dictate that Kate must stumble across a love interest, which she does, in the person of Rob (Kinnear), a fruit-drink shop owner in the neighborhood where Kate's new store is going up.REVIEW: 3 out of 4 Java MugsThis movie is like a disappointing party... All the right people are there, but it just isn't as much fun as it should be. Writer-director McCullers has created more than a few fascinating characters, but has not mixed them together in ways that generate the energy for a great gathering. The movie also has a predictable arc, and even though there are two major plot twists they will come as a surprise to no one.And yet, I liked this movie. One reason is Tina Fey. (Okay, I do have a crush on her, but that has nothing to do with it!) She is one of the most watchable actors at work today, both on TV and in the movies. There is genuine comic chemistry between her and Poehler, and we can only hope for future films that feature them.Though it all wraps up just a bit too neatly, along the way there are some captivating characters, very well-played. These include a pony-tailed Steve Martin as the whole-foods, new-age guru who rewards his top employees not with cash bonuses, but with five minutes of eye contact. Sigourney Weaver is also wonderful as the head of the surrogacy agency who charges $100,000 for its services. "That's more than it cost to have a person killed, " jokes Kate. "That's because it takes longer," deadpans Weaver. Some of the film's best laughs come courtesy of Oscar (Malco), the doorman at Kate's building who knows way more than he should about the odd couple upstairs.One minor character should look familiar, if you watch any TV at all. Kate's gynecologist is John Hodgman, the guy who plays "PC" in the ubiquitous Apple commercials. He provides Kate's prognosis with the words, "I don't like your uterus."
A Buddy Comedy with a Healthy Dose of Estrogen
posted on 19 Jul 2009Tina Fey and Amy Poehler prove that buddy comedies need not be the exclusive domain of naughty boys."Baby Mama" is no comic masterpiece, but it's at least as good as any number of formulaic comedies churned out by Hollywood and much better than many others. Fey is the uptight career woman who hears her biological clock ticking at 37 and wants to have a baby before it's too late. Poehler is the low-class, free-wheeling blonde who agrees to be her surrogate mother for a hefty fee. The usual odd-couple conflicts ensue, maternal instincts kick in, and in traditional sitcom style, everyone gets what they want in the end.The movie is mostly an excuse to give Fey and Poehler the chance to riff off of one another, and they do it well. Poehler especially displays the ability to carry a movie, something most SNL veterans aren't able to do. She's funny, but she's also able to embody an actual character rather than simply do skit-T.V. schtick. Just watch her horrified face the first time she tastes water; or the hilarious scene when Fey wrestles her into the shower and begins to scrub the hair dye off of her head in a scene that spoofs "Silkwood." Also starring Greg Kinnear as a smoothie store owner, and a whacked out Steve Martin as Fey's new age boss.Grade: A-
My Review
posted on 05 Jul 2009Middle-aged businesswoman Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) has it all - a lucrative job, good friends and great family. The one thing she doesn't have is a baby, and she tries every avenue to obtain one, to no avail.Finally she visits Chaffee Bicknell (Sigourney Weaver), who runs a surrogate mother business. Along comes Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler), a woman who's Kate's complete opposite - she's poor, lives on the wrong side of the tracks, and doesn't have a good job. She agrees to be Kate's surrogate mother, and Kate couldn't be happier.Then things start to change. Angie movies in with Kate after she breaks up with her boyfriend, and Kate is soon completely irritated with everything Angie does, because it's so different from her normal life. She also begins a relationship with Rob Ackerman (Greg Kinnear), and she doesn't know that Angie holds a secret that could completely turn her whole life upside down.The height of this movie lies within its two leads - Tina Fey and Amy Poehler), two of the funniest actresses in Hollywood. Their chemistry is palpable, and the overall story arc is decent, but it's just yet another in a long line of same-style comedies, where you know what the eventual outcome will be. Still, they did deliver in the laughs.
Great Fun
posted on 29 Jun 2009Due to my love of Tina Fey I went out of my way to see this film at the cinema; on first release it was only shown at 11-30 in the morning and I dragged my mum to watch in an empty theatre. All I can say is that it was worth the effort.The two leads bounce off of one another with brilliant comic timing, and both manage to make their flawed characters utterly likable. Yes, the plot is predictable, and no, there is no joke that made me fall out of my seat. However, it did deliver on many levels. The comedy was sharp and although the ending was a little contrived it did manage to put a goofy smile on the face of a cynical teenager, IE moi. 'Baby Mama' is perfect chick fare, and I am disappointed in the cinemas who have cleared all their screens in preparation for the release of 'The Dark Knight'.Poehler and Fey sparkled and were supported by an excellent cast; Steve Martin was odd, providing some light comedy, but it was Sigourney Weaver and Greg Kinnear (back on form and looking less haggard) whom i felt really carried the film in the absence of the two leads.Baby Mama was refreshing and a great indication that we should see more of these two girls on the big screen.4/5 Stars
Awful dreck!
posted on 27 Jun 2009Tina, how could you?Amy, how could you help her?I got this film in a bargain bin and was delighted as two of my favourites were starring in it and I had made a point of not reading the reviews.I couldn't believe the ending of the film was signalled from so far down the line that I could fill in the script with the mute button on. I soooo wanted to turn it off and go on to better things about 10 minutes into it and stopped myself by thinking: It's Tina! It's Amy! It has to get better, it's just a wonky beginning. No. Such. Luck.To encapsulate: it is something like an appalling soap opera with quick, predictable resolutions to each and every scene.Steve Martin participated in this schlock as a new age successful food empire guru and Greg Kinnear brought his ever-present, one note, sad and soulful demeanour to the role. For once, I'd like to see him explode and have a meltdown, maybe take an AK47 and go on a rampage. It would have saved this drivel posing as a film.Hang your heads all who participated in this sad and sorry little effort.4 out of 10.I'm being generous. Something about Sarah Palin and an impersonator par excellence.
Such A Good Movie
posted on 23 Jun 2009Seriously, I'm not going to go into a bunch of technical junk about why I thought this movie was great...I just did. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are so funny in this movie, the whole cast had GREAT chemistry (and Greg Kinnear is a HOTTIE...even if he is about 20-some years older than me). Some people might think it's not a great movie because there's not a lot to think about but COME ON PEOPLE...Not every movie has to have you stumped ala Memento! This was just a feel good movie with a lot of laugh out loud moments.Though I could never give a movie 10/10, I definitely gave this one a 9. I'd recommend anyone, guy or girl, go see this movie!
Predictable Farce Driven by a Deafening Biological Clock and a Familiar "Odd Couple" Set-Up
posted on 21 Jun 2009There is a smattering of smart laughs in this 2008 comedy, but first-time director Michael McCullers really plods his own coincidence-driven script along with little sense of style or dramatic resonance. At times, it feels no better than a formulaic romantic comedy from the 1960's usually starring small-screen celebrities trying to break into the big time. Sure enough, this time, we are offered Tina Fey (currently of NBC's "30 Rock") and Amy Poehler, former "Saturday Night Live" Weekend Update co-anchors and definitely the cream of the current funny lady crop. The problem is that McCullers, a one-time SNL staff writer who also co-wrote the Austin Powers movies with Mike Myers, doesn't elevate the screenplay much beyond the limited dimensions of an extended comedy sketch. That puts most of the pressure on the two women to make this farce work as a distaff version of "The Odd Couple" with a pregnancy angle, and they often - you should pardon the expression - deliver.Ideally cast with her smart, bespectacled looks, Fey plays 37-year-old Kate Holbrook, single and professionally successful as the VP of an upscale organic supermarket chain much like Whole Foods. She hears her biological clock ticking and is taking every step possible to have a baby. Her last straw is to pay an agency $100,000 to find a surrogate. Naturally, her polar opposite shows up as the ideal candidate - a junk-food-eating, Red Bull-swilling piece of white trash named Angie Ostrowski who comes with her money-drubbing boyfriend Carl. Kate is so desperate she is practically begging Angie to carry her egg, so Angie willingly accepts. Somehow, the women end up living together during the pregnancy and inevitably get on each other's nerves, more Angie on Kate's nerves since a few revelations threaten to upend the deal. Convenience appears to trump logic in tying up the plot's loose ends, of which there are many. However, McCullers' alternately sauntering and piercing Judd Apatow-like approach helps compensate for the bigger lapses.A game cast also helps. Although fairly limited as an actress, Fey is sharp and likable as the often dour Kate and has the ability to bring the implausibility of her character's situation into more human focus. Even though she is entirely too old for her role, Poehler is a more natural comic presence as Angie, terrifically manic but surprisingly poignant during key moments. It's obvious their joint casting has more to do with their proved rapport than dramatic credibility. In a turn worthy of Jeff Foxworthy, Dax Shepard credibly makes Carl a mercenary sheep. Romany Malco (memorable as Andy's horned-up co-worker in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin") is given little to do as the streetwise doorman, the same fate of Maura Tierney bland as Kate's supportive sister. Greg Kinnear must be getting awfully tired playing the same type of romantic foil over and over again, but he does do it well even though his scenes also seem strangely truncated. Two veterans threaten to steal the picture in acts of petty larceny - a pony-tailed Steve Martin very funny as Kate's Zen-seeking boss whose idea of a reward is allowing her to stare at him for five minutes, and Sigourney Weaver as the overtly self-satisfied and all-too-fertile head of the agency. SNL regulars Will Forte and Fred Armisen show up in cameos. A fitfully funny farce.
Pretty funny but not as funny as it could've been
posted on 13 Jun 2009Baby Mama was pretty good for the most part. It wasn't very original but pretty fun to watch. Pretty much all of the funny scenes were in the trailer. There were some other funny parts but none that really got you to laugh loud. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler did a great job together. They were very funny and Amy Poehler did a good job acting like a stupid adult. She seems like any movie with her in it are always funnier. She sometimes does get annoying in this and gets on your nerves. I don't think that this will be near the top funniest movies of 2008. It doesn't need to be though it was fun to watch especially if you are going through pregnancy. I think all sorts of people would enjoy this movie. Steve Martin was even in this movie and was very weird. This was more of a joking type of movie. Most of the funny scenes were from jokes. It was sort of boring in the beginning and was to slow moving. Then it finally picked up half way into it. It then got pretty funny and fun to see what the two ladies were going through. This movie was just like Juno, and Knocked Up, so if you liked those you will most likely like this. The characters in this movie were pretty conceded at first and selfish but then get better. Some of the messages were good. They were mostly about doing anything to get a baby if you want one. The story was pretty cliché but cute and funny. Overall this was a pretty good movie. Go see it for a pretty good time.
Boring. Poehler and Fey are just not funny.
posted on 11 Jun 2009Baby Mama - Corporate executive Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) decides at the age of 37 that she wants to have kids, but can't. She enlists the help of a surrogate facility who gives her near-do-weller Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler) as a receptacle for Holbrook's eggs.Anyone else getting tired of pregnancy movies? The subject, I think, has been submerged over the last few years (I think I'm ready for a few movies involving population control). And here it is again in the blandest form possible. The best I can give Tina Fey is she's a good funny writer and looks good in the evening dress shown in the film. What she is not, is a funny person or a strong actress. She's too shy, calculated, and uncomfortable in front of the camera. And as the film is supposed to be her vehicle that's a problem. Comedies about people on high horses are rarely funny. Poehler's character is an amalgam of new age hippy and deep south white trash, a combination that just does not work. The screenplay never decides how smart or stupid she really is. Nor is Poehler funny. She just tries way too hard like Will Ferrell does, and at least he occasionally strikes gold with his insanity.Overall the movie tries way too hard but it doesn't have enough good material available, so what it has it stretches. Remember the funny priest in "The Princess Bride" that spoke his "r's" as "w's" (mawwaige)? Well, here we have a birth counselor who does the same thing except the same once funny and lightly used joke is stretched over maybe 3 scenes, it being the only joke in any of them. There is singing used as an easy bonding device. Organic and vegan food are also made fun of to little effect. It's like Ellen DeGeneres penned this largely unfunny screenplay with the desired audience being my relatives in the Midwest. All of the comedy is too safe. If that's your game, go for it.There are some chuckles from the entirely wasted supporting cast. In fact writer/director Michael McCullers could have made a much better movie with the secondary characters. The film has Romany Malco, the hilarious Steve Martin, Dax Shepard of "Idiocracy", Sigourney Weaver (an actually FUNNY female) and Greg Kinnear, who in particular is given the awful and painfully predictable role of Tina Fey's love interest. The screenplay telegraphs everything and by and large, it's boring. I hope 30 Rock lasts for awhile, cause with Sarah Palin gone Tina Fey won't have much of a career left.A really dumb unfunny pregnancy movie, Baby Mama gets a C-
Baby Mama (2008)
posted on 09 Jun 2009Baby Mama (2008) – A romantic comedy that is better than the majority you'll see. This had enough spunk, creativity and laughs to over come the inevitable predictability and stereotypical characters that this genre thrives upon. It was the chemistry between Tina Fay and Amy Poehler that really made this film and the same script in lesser hands could have fallen to the low levels of repetitive drivel that Drew Barrymore films usually make their home. Some of the characters were extremely one-dimensional, the redneck boyfriend of Amy Poehler and the kind-hearted smoothie-maker not withstanding but there were entertaining background characters as well. Steve Martin made me laugh a couple of times in this film, a feat he has failed to accomplish for many years, and Romany Malco was good as the bellboy with a heart of gold. Of course you saw the ending coming within the first half-hour, you'd seen a lot of the gags done before, but nevertheless it was still an entertaining way to spend a couple of hours. ******* 7/10.
A Fun And Entertaining Little Film
posted on 09 Jun 2009I personally adored Baby Mama. It wasn't the best, but it wasn't the worst. When it first started up though, I was beginning to think that it wouldn't be as good as I had planned it. It was really rocky around the beginning of the movie, because things were just really slow and boring. It picks up a little as the film goes on and in the end it was a great movie that came through on my predictions. There's some laugh out loud moments, and there's also some, "Oh my God, did they really just do that?" moments in Baby Mama, but overall it was a fairly entertaining film that was really enjoyable and cute down to the last second.
A solid little comedy.
posted on 07 Jun 2009Having been inundated with so many Judd Apatow-type gross out comedies over the past couple of years, I was expecting Baby Mama to try and target the same audience. Thankfully, it doesn't. It's a sweet, smartly-written story made all the better with some terrific performances by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as a pair of mismatched clients of a surprisingly fertile surrogacy agent (Sigourney Weaver). The film finds its natural, unforced comedy rhythm at the get-go and seldom sags or over-extends itself for the sake of a laugh. (The one exception being the overly-exaggerated lisp of the prenatal class instructor. Play the material honestly, dear. It's funny enough.) The supporting cast is exceptionally strong -- in particular Dax Shephard as Poehler's white-trash boyfriend and Romany Malco as Fey's doorman-slash-confidant. Director Michael McCullers avoids the trap of being self-indulgent with his own script. He keeps it lean, tight and moving right along. Certainly one of the more satisfying comedies I've seen in awhile.
Tina Fey continues to climb the comedy hierarchy in "Baby Mama"
posted on 07 Jun 2009There weren't too many people hotter than Tina Fey in 2008. Between the smash comedy 30 Rock, her impression of GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and taking the lead for the first time in a movie with "Baby Mama," Fey and her iconic black-rimmed glasses have soared above and beyond Saturday Night Live. While the film "Baby Mama" might not be her most notable exploit, it's brand of subtle humor works in her favor and makes for an enjoyable film.Fey plays Kate, a late thirties (her true age) businesswoman who has never been married and is also incapable of conceiving a child though she desperately wants one. When Kate stumbles across an agency specializing in surrogate pregnancy, she meets Angie, a high school dropout played by SNL's Amy Poehler, and the two agree that Angie will have Kate's baby. When Angie's trash boyfriend Carl (Dax Shepard) cheats on her, she moves in with Kate and the two have to reconcile their conflicting lifestyles.Though Fey carries her own comedic presence in her reactions to the bizarre characters around her, it's Poehler's character that is meant to serve as comic relief in her mis-educated habits in life and in pregnancy. She provides a variety of physical humor and also gets some laughs at her character for her sheer ignorance, though it's pretty hit-or-miss with her. While in a lot of her work she can come off as annoying, she's a bit more mild in this film.The rest of a cast is full of high profile actors in smaller roles and other familiar faces to boost the unproven star power of Fey and Poehler. Greg Kinnear plays Fey's love interest, who is just supposed to be a "nice guy" and nothing more and Maura Tierney of "ER" plays Fey's sister. Top that off with appearances by Steve Martin as Fey's zen/hippie boss and Sigourney Weaver as the head of the surrogate agency and there's plenty of time for "look who it is!" amazement as you watch."Baby Mama" doesn't throw anything unusual at us from a comedy stand point, especially being released not even a year after Judd Apatow's "Knocked Up" provided a similar concept, but it has its own subtle, very SNL-like comedic style. That might be easy to say because Fey, Poehler and creator Michael McCullers connections to the show, but like SNL sketches, "Baby Mama" relies on the talents of its actors in creating nutty characters and the way the "normal" characters perceive them. While this doesn't work all the time, it gets better toward the end and the plot keeps you interested enough to wear you certainly don't dismiss it and you may even really like it.
Better than expected
posted on 22 Aug 2009When I first saw the trailer for Baby Mama, I just thought this movie was going to be a total disaster, it didn't look funny and like another typical chick flick. But my friends wanted to see it, so we saw it opening weekend, and actually I was surprised, I did like a lot better than what I was expecting. Baby Mama is something that looks like from the Lifetime Network, but it's all good, it has some really funny moments and was just cute. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are two very funny women from Saturday Night Live, they also did Mean Girls together and made their characters an absolute joy to watch, so seeing them as the leads in this film was going to be an interesting turn. Tina Fey definitely has a lot of talent not only as a writer, but as an actress, she made her character believable and as neuritic as she was, she was still likable. Amy Poehler made her character a little too SNL at times, but these girls made the movie enjoyable and a fun flick to watch for the afternoon.Kate is a single and successful woman who seems to have it all in life, but one thing she wants so bad is a baby. But one problem, her uterus isn't liked by her doctor, in other words, she has a one in a million chance of getting pregnant. After adoption woes and sperm donor failures, she decides to get a sergeant mother who will get pregnant and give her a child. She meets white trash couple, Angie and Carl. Angie moves into Kate's apartment after her break up with Carl, so this "odd couple" has to teach each other some new moves in life.Baby Mama is actually worth the watch, I was very impressed with how much I liked it, like I said, from the trailer, it doesn't seem like a good movie, but when you watch it, you get the laughs and the smiles that the movie promises. It is a chick flick, warning to people who have a strong hatred for them, but I'm not a fan of chick flicks, and you know what? I thought that this was just a fun movie that if you let go and even enjoy the predictability, you'll find yourself loving Baby Mama.7/10