Baby Mama

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Baby Mama

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Baby Mama

Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Romany Malco

A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.

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  • Godless
    October 20, 2009
    Godless
    I'm pretty sure the target demographic was soccer moms.
  • limoradalloway
    October 12, 2009
    limoradalloway
    A very Tina Fey-ish effort. Entertaining, a little unexpected, but nothing too original for it not to sell.
  • stuartb1234
    October 6, 2009
    stuartb1234
    Poor comedy with only a few funny parts
  • mrpopcorn
    June 6, 2009
    mrpopcorn
    "Would you put your eggs...in this basket?"

    A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.

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    Baby Mama has a number of cute moments rolled into what is ultimately a very unfocused, messy movie. The plot is very simple, Kate (Fey) is a career woman who desperately wants to have a baby. She finds that getting pregnant the usual way is nearly impossible, so she seeks out a surrogate, Angie (Poehler) through an agency. The movie basically follows the predictable, if still funny, "odd couple" formula.

    Fey is very winning, and Poehler is a skilled comedian. Both do an excellent job of taking an average script and rising above it. Sigourney Weaver is amusing in a smaller part, Steve Martin also has some funny moments. Maura Tierney, Holland Taylor and Greg Kinnear are all given very little to do, and are wasted in their roles.

    In short, this is a movie that was nice to rent, but left me wanting something more. The ending is kind of ridiculous, and feels out of place given the tone of the rest of the movie.
  • binky013
    May 13, 2009
    binky013
    Jeeez, this is an awful piece of cruft. Not only did I not laugh once, but the only time I actually smiled was when Steve Martin does his staring sharing. Martin could have saved this. Too little Steve, too much of someone's stale idea of funny.
  • spearsabrittany
    December 20, 2009
    spearsabrittany
    Best Movie ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Marischa2
    December 18, 2009
    Marischa2
    it was fun watching it though.
  • zeebaby4real21
    December 16, 2009
    zeebaby4real21
    Luvly movie. But I can't being obsessed with babies.
  • briley9
    December 15, 2009
    briley9
    We watched Baby Mama last night and I was pleasantly surprised. Its premise looked very stupid to me, but the film actually had a bit of complicated character development and entertaining interaction between Fey and Poehler. The Tina Fey juggurnaut rolls on.

    * As my wife p...( read more)ut it at the end of the film: once you have children, movie children look idyllic in a kind-of insulting way.
    * Fey?s character showed a great balance of modern womanhood, neither stereotyped nor falling into those stereotypes. I thought, early on, that the pressure of the impending baby would result in her deciding that corporate life wasn?t worth it?not so.
    * The only downside of the Greg Kinnear love interest story is that it was so obvious. Because he?s the first other big star to show up in the film (save Steve Martin), it?s telegraphed from a mile away. And of course, he couldn?t just be a guy who opened a juice store, he had to be a former-corporate lawyer who opened a juice store.
    * The film?s not very friendly to the uneducated. But should it be? I wonder if there are people who saw this movie and found it insulting, or if everyone sees themselves as not Amy Pohler?s character.
    * A great battle of the superstar side characters: Steve Martin vs. Sigourney Weaver. I give it to Steve by a hair. Or rather, a magnificent ponytail reminiscent of Tim Robbins? High Fidelity mane.
    * How is it that IVF comes up three times in three different media in 24 hours? First we watch Baby Mama, then I read that A.J. Jacobs and his wife Julie conceived their twins via IVF in The Year of Living Biblically, and then this morning we heard on the news about the mother of six who gave birth to octuplets yesterday via IVF. Jeebus.

    All in all, this movie surprised me pleasantly. Much like Mean Girls, which I also didn?t think I would enjoy, the movie starts from the place of a specific genre and then pushes forward into unlikely territory via complicated characters and/or plot development.
  • danmulhall1
    December 2, 2009
    danmulhall1
    More like Baby Ma-Meh.... Yeah I went there.
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