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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 107
Released: September 9, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Comedic geniuses Tina Fey (30 Rock Saturday Night Live) and Amy Poehler (Saturday Night Live) team up to celebrate a modern twist on motherhood!Kate (Fey) is a single successful career woman who wants something more: a baby. But she gets more than she bargained for when she hires Angie (Poehler) a free spirit from South Philly to be her surrogate in a hysterical mama match-up. From birth class to baby-proofing they re the ultimate odd couple that critics are calling the best female comedy duo since Lucy and Ethel (Claudia Puig USA Today).With hilarious performances from an all-star cast featuring Greg Kinnear Dax Shepard and Sigourney Weaver Baby Mama is as full of laughs as it is heart!System Requirements:Running Time: 99 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/FRIENDS Rating: PG-13 UPC: 025195041997 Manufacturer No: 61105038
Description of Baby Mama:
Laughter and hearty guffaws abound in this comical look at 37-year-old career woman Kate Holbrook's (30 Rock's Tina Fey) desperate attempts to have a baby. Never mind that she's not married and has never been involved in a serious relationship; Kate wants a baby and will stop at virtually nothing to get one. After failed attempts at broaching the concept of conception with first dates and trying artificial insemination with the help of a sperm bank, Kate finds out that her t-shaped uterus leaves her with only a one in a million chance of conceiving a child. Adoption doesn't work out and she's left with the distasteful option of hiring a surrogate mother. Enter Chaffee Bicknell's (Sigourney Weaver) surrogate service and her recommendation of the working-class Angie Ostrowiski (Saturday Night Live's Amy Poehler) who, with her common-law husband Carl (Dax Shepard), is just desperate enough to take on the job in order to make some money, and the stage is set for baby making. As fate would have it, Angie and Carl break up just after Angie announces she's pregnant and Angie ends up moving in with Kate. Unfortunately, the two are completely incompatible and what ensues is a hysterical struggle to coexist while clashing over everything from proper nutrition to stroller selection, hair dye, and delivery options. Further complicating matters is Kate's budding relationship with ex-lawyer and juice-store owner Rob (Greg Kinnear), who just happens to be morally opposed to the whole concept of surrogate parenting. Finally, there's the question of just how fully Angie embraces the virtue of honesty. It's the juxtaposition of opposing viewpoints--so boldly stated, humorously set, and blatantly exploited--that makes this witty comedy so darn funny. Expect graphic references, raunchy humor, and a whole lot of laughter. --Tami Horiuchi
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Funny...But 
2008-10-11 - I wish I would have liked this movie a little more.
Pluses -- I found several scenes to be laugh out loud funny and as a collector of humor and great one-liners I would consider purchasing the film for those film moments alone. Both actresses shine with physical comedy and in the art of sarcastic one-liners. I was surprised by a plot twist. Steve Martin played freak with great flair and over-the-top weirdness. He may have been the best part of the movie.
Minuses -- verbal flinging of male body parts got old, however, and the stereotypes grew a little thin. The movie grew much more serious about halfway in and the humor slowed. I didn't fully buy into the romance between Kinnear and Fey.
I recommend the movie to those who aren't looking for great depth, nor for a laugh a second. It's a cute girls night movie. The language is moderate to tame, writing clever, acting fun and the sex is closeted. If you don't expect much you probably won't be disappointed. Expect reproduction/birthing comments and a few embarrassing moments. I'd suggest giving it a red box rental if you are considering purchasing it, that way you're only out a buck if you hate it.
Baby Mama Love 
2008-10-09 - So funny you might need Depends. I laughed until I cried at the antics of Amy Poehler. She and Tina Fey play off each other like Martin and Lewis. All the characters were right on point except for Steve Martin's weird guru guy - he seemed completely superfluous to the story. I loved the birthing class lady with the lisp. Gather up a bunch of girlfriends and watch Baby Mama for a howling good time.
Delightful, Funny, Smart
2008-10-09 - I didn't expect to like this movie as much as I did. I LOVED it. Tina Fey is a busy-busy career woman approaching middle life and longing for a baby, and Amy Poehler is the uneducated streetwise surrogate hired by an agency to carry Tina Fey's fertilized egg. It's kind of an Odd Couple thing. IT'S A GOOD GROWN UP MOVIE. Don't be turned off by the commercials trying to sell this as merely a gross/funny movie for the younger SNL set. I'm 52 and I absolutely loved it. Well done! Hollywood--make more movies like this!
Congratulations, Kate. I want to reward you with five minutes of uninterrupted eye contact.
2008-10-08 -
With the SNL comedy stylings of hilarious Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Baby Mama falls a little short.
Maybe I expected too much before sitting down to the film,(with images in my head of Fey's Mean Girls or Poehler's performance in Blades of Glory) but if what you expect is an Apatow-esque comic romp, Baby Mama isn't quite your film.
Kate(Tina Fey) is a hard working, career-driven women with little time for much else in her life, only she can't stop thinking about one thing that is missing, a baby. One big problem, she's single and 37.
Of course Kate turns to surrogacy where she encounters Angie(Amy Poehler) a loosey-goosey opposite of Kate herself.
When Angie gets in a fight with her foul-tounged boyfriend Carl(Dax Shepard) Kate takes her in, and the 'bonding' commences.
It's not a laugh-every-minute, but it's a cute film worth one watch.
I personally loved Steve Martin's bossy psycho-babble more then much else.
Baby I'm-a want you...
2008-10-08 - (to the tune of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds)
Picture yourself on the near side of 40
You've built your career, now it's time for a child
Visit the sperm bank, no time for a lover
The man on the video smiles
Visit the doctor who's shaking his head
Pondering over your eggs
It's darned unlikely they'll ever be found
Where they are
Chorus:
Guess she'll never have a baby
Guess she'll never have a baby
Guess she'll never have a baby
Aaah... Aaah...
Follow her downtown to Chaffee & Bicknell
Where Sigourney Weaver plies surrogate tries
Suddenly Kate is dependent on Angie
The woman who's bearing her child
Someone persistently knocks on the door
Angie has no place to stay
Moves in with Kate and the misery starts
And the fun
Chorus:
Wonder if she'll have a baby
Wonder if she'll have a baby
Wonder if she'll have a baby
Aaah... Aaah...
If you can forgive and forget the absolutely atrocious title of this movie (and of course not take it too seriously) you'll be pleasantly surprised to find out that it's actually a pretty funny comedy (chick flick warning) with some unexpected twists and great performances by Tina "Pitbull with lipstick" Fey, Amy "Me for President" Poehler, Sigourney Weaver and Steve Martin.
Fey and Poehler play two diametrically opposite personalities who are thrown together out of necessity, and who build a friendship despite difficult circumstances, $ex, lies and karaoke. Strong support is provided by Greg Kinnear, Maura Tierney and Holland Taylor
Recommended for fans of Saturday Night Live, chick flicks and twisty comedies.
Amanda Richards, October 7, 2008
