Baby Mama (2008)
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 25, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $60,269,340
Synopsis: Most romantic couples--onscreen or otherwise--would kill for the type of chemistry that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler share in the gyno-centric comedy BABY MAMA, even though the women are only playing friends. Fey stars as Kate, a 37-year-old vice president at an organic foods company whose womb... Most romantic couples--onscreen or otherwise--would kill for the type of chemistry that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler share in the gyno-centric comedy BABY MAMA, even though the women are only playing friends. Fey stars as Kate, a 37-year-old vice president at an organic foods company whose womb starts a-kickin' every time she sees a baby. Though her career has kept her from marriage and children, she has decided that it's time for her to get pregnant. But multiple tries with in vitro fertilization leave her disappointed, and Kate turns to a surrogate mother. Enter Angie (Poehler), a high-school dropout desperate for the large check that comes with carrying someone's child. Though she agrees to be Kate's surrogate, it's clear that the women disagree on everything from music to the type of food Angie should be eating. When Angie leaves her apartment after a fight with her obnoxious common-law husband (Dax Shepard, EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH), she moves into Kate's posh Philadelphia apartment, and the women spend the rest of BABY MAMA alternately battling and bonding. Steve Martin appears in a small but enjoyable role as Kate's oily boss, and Oscar nominee Greg Kinnear gets good mileage out of playing her love interest. WEEDS star Romany Malco earns a bit more screen time--and plenty of laughs--as her over-involved doorman, but this is clearly Fey and Poehler's film. After several seasons of co-anchoring SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE's "Weekend Update" together, the pair is reunited, and it feels good--for both the talented actresses and the audience. BABY MAMA pays less attention to the serious issues of pregnancy and motherhood than its baby-driven contemporaries--JUNO, WAITRESS, and KNOCKED UP--but this is simply a comedy, and a very funny one, that succeeds on the merits of its two lead actresses and their comedic talents. [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Sigourney Weaver, Dax Shepard
Screenwriter: Michael McCullers
Producer: Lorne Michaels, John Goldwyn
Composer: Jeff Richmond
DVD Info
Release:
Sep 9, 2008
DVD Features:
- Widescreen
Audio:
- DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 - English
- DTS 5.1 Surround - French, Spanish
- Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - Michael McCullers - Writer/Director; Lorne Michaels - Producer; Tina Fey - Star; Amy Poehler - Star
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Reviews
With this story, and this cast, the movie ought to have been fun.
Michael McCullers' script is soft-headed to the point of inanity.
The film's talented performers are wasted thanks to a weak script.
A lightweight romantic comedy that's to be welcomed, if only for the fact it offers juicy roles to talented writer-actresses Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
Fey and Poehler are class comedy actresses, yet this lacks the dramatic spark which would have been supplied by both their characters genuinely hating the sight of one another.
It delivers considerably more laughs than one might expect from the Hollywood sub-genre of procreation comedy.
By Mike Martin - The big news that Steve Martin is funny for the first time in about 15 years as Kate's hilariously dippy hippy boss.
While certainly amiable enough, Michael McCullers' directorial debut is, like the gestation that it portrays, somewhat sloppily conceived and capable of delivering no more than what is expected.
Good comedy knows no gender, and be you woman, man or any sentient being with a funny bone, you will find boundless delight in two people doing what they do best: being very, very funny.
The jokes are, on paper, funny. On screen they just seem like the inevitable, the only thing to say, and their zing zags off into bland, familiar territory... the material didn't coalesce past pointing at something funny and saying, "hey, that's funny al
It's no different than watching a third-rate sitcom on a Tuesday night.
On one level, it's unfair to penalize a pretty decent movie for not being a great movie, but then again, Fey has proved time and time again that she can do better than this.
Poehler's the engine that propels this light comedy to surprising levels that far exceed the predictability suggested by the preview trailer.
Baby Mama which was written not by Fey but by its director Michael McCullers is awfully familiar yet the movie - forgive me - delivers its laughs without audiences having to go into labor to get them.
Fey may get top billing for "Baby Mama," and deservedly so, but it's Poehler who actually ends up providing the most laughs.
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