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Baby Mama
Comedy
April 25th, 2008
MPAA: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language and a drug reference.
Universal Pictures
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Starring: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver, Dax Shepard, Greg Kinnear
Directed By: Michael McCullers
Produced By: Lorne Michaels, John Goldwyn
Screenplay By: Michael McCullers
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Reviewed
By: Wellington Lee
Rated 2.75/5
Current(Poehler) and former(Fey) SNLers' star in a farcical riff about single,37 year old executive
Kate's,
attempts to single Mother her own, biological child. Fey holds her own, is a perfectly matched role, as the anal neat freak,
V.P of a whole foods market. Poehler's character is written and performed, as an all stereotype, hillbilly lower
socioeconomic ; twinkies gulping and smoking, reluctant surrogate Mother for hire.
The best comedic performances and characters, from comedy veteran(2 "Austin Powers" screenplays)writer turned feature
director McCullers, are Steve Martin and an underused Weaver. Martin plays Fey's new age flaky hip, Round Earth co. owner: A
2007-8 version of T.V. Seinfeld Elaine's, flaky catalogue boss Mr. Peterman. Kate is the only employee who can new age brown
nose her way through the forehead to forehead, 5 minute locked stare-downs, with boss Barry.
Weaver plays cocky Chaffee Bicknell, the owner of a high priced(100 thou.), surrogate mother service. Chaffee repeatedly
flaunts her 50 year old fertility to barren Kate, in the only funny lines given her. Besides these two great supports, and
Kinnear's vulnerable heart throb competent typecast perform, experience saves this pic. Fey and Poehler's years of weekly
rehearsals and mostly hilarious, live SNL small screen chemistry; help to make the girls' night out, and hilarious
impregnating vignettes and birthing classes, flow more naturally, than the predictable comedy.
O.K., but not side splitting, for a night of needed laugh tonic. |
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