When single executive Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) decides the time is right to finally have a baby, she hires a working-class woman (Amy Poehler) from South Philadelphia to act as her surrogate mother. However, Kate's careful planning goes out the window when the woman shows up on her doorstep needing a place to live. A comic battle of wills breaks out between the pair as they prep... are for the blessed event and try not to kill one another in the process.
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A tailor-made girls' night out movie, Baby Mama is a tidily wrapped package the contents of which you can easily guess before opening it. Bigscreen teaming of longtime "Saturday Night Live" cohorts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, as two women brought together through a dubious surrogate pregnancy, employs both broad gags and mild wit in telling an exceedingly predictable tale designed to push recognition buttons with thirtysomethng women, to likely sweetly profitable results.
The role of Kate Holbrook, a bright, accomplished and attractive career woman who feels a sudden need to have a baby, seems so perfectly suited for Fey that it will be widely assumed that...
Is Tina Fey, former head writer for "Saturday Night Live" and creator and star of one of the best shows on television, "30 Rock," going to get hit with a knee-jerk media backlash now? It could happen, given the blood-thirst that motivates so much cultural writing these days and, of course, her "convention-defying" success. I'm never quite sure that the conventions defied are real rather than media-made, but whether her new comedy Baby Mama blows up or is quickly ushered off the national stage like a grateful documentarian at the Academy Awards, it's a pretty safe bet that Fey's exotic status as a funny, smart woman over 35 will be cited.
it looked ok, and started ok, but then it got a bit crap [SPOILER]
like when shes pergnant, then not pregnant, then IS pregnant, but the baby isnt even Kates! and then Kate actually gets pregant to her casual boyfriend.. i mean..
puts people off surrogates.. :(
but, an ok film :)
