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Baby Mama
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MPAA Rating: PG-13Current Showtimes: No showtimes available
When I sat down to watch Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in Baby Mama, I expected a brash, or at least smart-assed comedy about surrogate adoption families. Instead I got a few nice jokes and even a couple good one-liners scattered among repetitive, sitcom drivel trapped in a child’s play pen. Movies like this are the reason people heralded Juno for its quirkiness and genuinely original thought. Baby Mama instead takes the safe route as a simple-minded, buddy movie with women recast as the odd couple leads.
Anyone who has seen 30 Rock may feel a certain amount of instant fondness for Tina Fey because she is essentially playing Liz Lemon only this time she is the brain behind an organic food company instead of NBC. Fey stars as the fertility challenged Kate Holbrook, who at 37 is ready to skip finding the perfect man and go right for the baby. Discovering her problems conceiving, she eventually decides to go to a company run by the always-pregnant Chaffee Bicknell (Sigourney Weaver) to hire a surrogate. Kate meets Angie (Poehler), and the two become friends and eventually behave like a married couple.
But the fun times always come to an end, and this is the problem with Baby Mama. The big conflict is handled too neatly and just gives way to an annoying Full House ending that had me groaning with dissatisfaction. Rounding out the cast are Steve Martin as Kate‘s crazy Boss Barry, Greg Kinnear as the nice Juice bar owner Rob, Moira Tierney as Kate’s sister Caroline and Romany Malco as Kate’s incredibly funny doorman Oscar. Baby Mama isn’t a bad movie per-se, it’s perfectly sweet, brainless fluff that wide audiences might enjoy, but people who want something a little racier might want to see something without kid gloves.
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