Tina Fey Movie:

		List Price: $39.98		Label: Universal Studios Salesrank: 19528 Released: September 9, 2008
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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: Blu-ray

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!

Description of Baby Mama [Blu-ray]:
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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Baby Mama [Blu-ray] Reviews:
This movie is just "okay"
2009-12-14 - This movie is kind of stupid, but teenagers might like it. There were some good parts and some good actors, but I don't want to watch it a second time. It wasn't terrible where I wanted to turn off the tv, just okay. Here is another movie I would rent before purchasing.

Love this movie
2009-10-25 - Baby Mama is histerical! I watch it over and over like a child with a Disney movie. Smart humor everyone can appreciate, and deals with touchy topics without being offensive.

Need a Laugh...this will do it!
2009-10-16 - I love this movie! I think I watch it 7x a week. I can't get enough of Tina Fey and Amy...This movie, although quirky is a worthwhile watch and make you look at life---differently...In a good way!

great comedy
2009-09-28 - Baby Mama is pretty hilarious. You probably already know the storyline so there's no need to touch up on that. I'm surprised so many people didn't like the movie to be honest. It did just about everything right.

It's a funny movie because the blonde-haired woman who was supposedly carrying the baby (Amy Poehler's character) kept acting like a child herself! She'd eat so many chocolate cakes she'd end up making herself sick, she'd play the American Idol video game all day long, she'd pee in the bathroom sink, all because she was COMPLETELY uninterested in having a baby.

There's a bunch of twists to the storyline, and all of them managed to keep my interest. Twists that concern which woman is actually pregnant, and who's the father. No, this is NOT your typical chick flick with terrible acting bits involving "who's the father- could it be that smiley pretty boy guy over there who's completely unfunny but thinks he's good looking?" type of comedy. Nah, Baby Mama is more interesting than that (the male characters are actually GOOD) and to be honest, guys out there watching the movie might find something appealing and humorous about Baby Mama too.

The movie also does a pretty good job going through lots of emotions. Sometimes the characters are sad, sometimes happy, other times just confused and miserable, haha. I guess that's what it's like when pregnant.

But Baby Mama is more about comedy above everything else, and succeeds mainly because of Amy Poehler's character. Recommended.


3.5--Place Two Talented Mama's with One Mediocre Film doesn't really Add Up
2009-09-17 - To its credit, "Baby Mama" is not your typical one-joke movie starring "Saturday Night Live" alums. It's more of a one-and-a-half joke movie. In "Mama", Tina Fey's OCD career woman, unable to conceive and unwilling to wait for an adoption, hires Amy Poehler's ADD surrogate mother to carry her baby. How will this odd couple survive nine months together? With hilarious results, of course. Well, moderately hilarious, at least, thanks in large part to its two seriously talented comedic leads. This contemporary comedy draws our attention to the business of babies. It does so however in such a hackneyed fashion that if it weren't for the talented mama's at the forefront of it all, it would be little more than a painful delivery.

Personally I feel that "Mama" is written, with one contrivance too many, by Michael McCullers who co-wrote the last two "Austin Powers" movies. Mr. McCullers makes his directorial debut here but, even at 96 minutes, "Mama" eventually runs awfully thin. There are certainly some good moments, particularly when the two leads are given time to riff off each other. Ms. Poehler, in particular, is given a wide berth (pun intended). Ms. Fey however, so winning on the small screen, is put to the test here. As the consummate straight-woman, her range (and the script) is too limited to inject any real depth into the material. "Mama" treats the sensitivity of its topic with kid gloves - it's missing Ms. Fey's deft comic hand (the one that has made "30 Rock", against all odds, one of the best comedy on television). Even 1987's similarly-themed Diane Keaton vehicle "Baby Boom" held more weight. Even without a gestation specialist.

Like I said before Michael McCullers made the comedy here far too broad and predictable, robbing the talented actors of anything with which to play. I don't know if someone at Saturday Night Live had a surrogate, but that idea certainly was kicking around the set. I would recommended this film only if you have a few lazy days put aside.