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Baby Mama

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Baby Mama (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 114 Fresh: 69  Rotten:45 Average Rating: 6.1/10
 
Consensus: A lightweight, predictable comedy with strong performances. Baby Mama is a lightweight, predictable comedy that ekes by on the strength of its performers. more
 
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
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... [More]
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. [Less]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Sigourney Weaver, Dax Shepard

Director: Michael McCullers
Screenwriter: Michael McCullers
Producer: Lorne Michaels, John Goldwyn
Composer: Jeff Richmond

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Just remember the "5 minutes of uninterrupted eye contact" scene (with Steve Martin). I was almost in tears.

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05/17/08 11:17 AM
Kevin McCarthy
WJFK-FM (CBS Radio)
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The best moments come when Fey and Poehler just cut loose and riff hilariously on everything from birthing classes to karaoke video games.

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05/16/08 10:03 AM
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune
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A waste of talent.

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05/15/08 03:00 PM
Bob Grimm
Reno News and Review
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Fey and Poehler, you're better than this material, and you know it.

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05/12/08 06:59 AM
David Cornelius
eFilmCritic.com
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a pithy deconstruction of both the trendy and the traditional, with well-aimed swipes at everything from designer parenthood to the redneck in the blue collar

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05/11/08 06:15 PM
Andrea Chase
Killer Movie Reviews
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...an exceedingly familiar premise that's used to almost extraordinarily innocuous effect...

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05/06/08 05:03 AM
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
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[Tina Fey and Amy Poehler] could, with luck, be one of the great comedy teams.

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05/05/08 05:15 PM
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
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The year's first film that kept me laughing from end to end with intelligent and perceptive punch lines that don't aim for the broad side of a fraternity house.

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05/02/08 12:51 PM
Sean O'Connell
Charlotte Weekly
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'Baby Mama' Makes Do-Do

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05/01/08 01:01 PM
Joe Baltake
Passionate Moviegoer
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Steve Martin emerges as Baby Mama's mack daddy.

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04/30/08 03:45 PM
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing
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Although the big picture itself gets mushy, the small moments, especially involving Fey, are sharp.

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04/30/08 11:14 AM
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
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If he's not precisely magical, Oscar the doorman does function as wise advisor for white women who should know better.

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04/30/08 06:11 AM
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters
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The comedy teams longtime "Saturday Night Live" vets Tina Fey and Amy Poehler - two of the funniest individuals on the planet, in my opinion - for a comedy that distinctly exploits their synergistic comic sensibilities.

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04/29/08 05:41 PM
Mike McGranaghan
Aisle Seat
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Unrolls like a perfect storm of focus-grouped situations and joke-writing by committee.

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04/28/08 10:01 PM
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy
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Probably would be better as a 'Saturday Night Live' skit

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04/28/08 08:12 PM
Jackie K. Cooper
jackiekcooper.com
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Enough laughs for me to recommend.

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04/28/08 10:02 AM
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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SNL alumni Tina Fey, Steve Martin, and current mainstay Amy Poehler, all shine in this infectious chuckler.

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04/28/08 09:26 AM
Tyler Hanley
Palo Alto Weekly
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...definitely funnier than Rosemary's Baby, a notch or two better than Nine Months, but falling far short in the laughs department when compared to the maternity comedy winner and still champion, Knocked Up.

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04/28/08 08:44 AM
Gary Brown
Houston Community Newspapers
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a mild charmer, with a genial nature and a game cast.

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04/27/08 09:37 PM
Sean McBride
Sean the Movie Guy
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The picture's only weakness is that the pair's antics pale in comparison to those exhibited by the low-class trash you can find making fools of themselves any day of the week on the average episode of the Jerry Springer Show.

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04/27/08 02:43 PM
Kam Williams
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