Tina Fey can do no wrong in my eyes, so I was excited to check out Baby Mama on Friday. Her close friend and Saturday Night Live buddy, Amy Poehler, was also in the film along with some fun cameos from other SNL actors.
In fact, both of the playing off each other was the best part of the movie.
The film centers around Tina Fey’s character, Kate, who has a “T-shaped” uterus and cannot get pregnant. She’s tried everything. And being a single women with a career, adoption was taking too long. So she decided to go the route of surrogacy to become a mother for the first time.
Sigourney Weaver helms the institute that provides the surrogate mothers, and soon Kate is paired up with Angie (Poehler).
The rest of the movie is basically the two of them together, as a sort of “odd couple” pairing that we’ve seen countless times.
In fact, there was really nothing original about Baby Mama at all. It was all too predictable, as my wife leaned over and told me how it would end about 30 minutes into the film.
Sure, there were some funny parts, but they just didn’t seem to flow as well as they could have. The most unique and laugh-out-loud scenes involved Steve Martin as Barry, the owner of a health food chain where Kate works.
I love Tina and Amy, and if it wasn’t for them, I’d have probably laughed even less. It wasn’t horrible, It just lacked the extra uniqueness I was hoping to see. Baby Mama was just your average, run-of-the-mill romantic comedy. I was hoping for a bit more from Fey, although blame for some lackluster performances could be placed on the first time director, Michael McCuller.
I thought it was better than a 5.5! But I agree that it was highly predictable.
I figure 5 is average, so I thought it was just an average movie…it got a point-5 because Tina Fey was in it
ok so hows this for making it unpredicatable.. what if Sigourney Weaver was Ripley in this movie and implanted Alien embryo’s into surrogate mothers?!!? Huh? ya… hows that for a twist!!
Disappointed to hear the movie was not better.
If Mike, who loves Tina Fey only slightly less than Jina (I’m just assuming), only gave it a 5.5, what chance does it have of even breaking .500 for the rest of us? I’m disappointed. I was hoping it would be really good.
I think he was a little hard on it, but go (or wait and rent it) and decide for yourself.
All the clips I’ve seen have been really funny. Is it one of those movies where all the funny stuff is already in the commercials so it’s not funny anymore when you’re sitting in the theater?