Baby Mama

Considering I am a huge fan of SNL, I found it hard to sit through the movie after the scene between Tina Fey and her mother. I was quickly offended when Tina's mother insisted she not bring home a baby with a certain color(As if that were the worst thing ever!). I made the connection between the celebrity type adopting "these" children but the way it was presented in the movie was, in my opinion, ridiculous. I got up and made an exit for a refund...However, my friend decided to stay and watch the film (per our agreement). We both figured the movie would end in a certain predictable way. Surely fans of these two exceptional actors enjoyed the movie/message. Too bad I missed it.

2390 - ... (Concubinage, rejection of marriage as such, or inability to make long term commitments) ... offend against the dignity of marriage; they destroy the very idea of the family; they weaken the sense of fidelity. They are contrary to moral law. The sexual act must take place exclusively within marriage. Outside of marriage it always constitutes a grave sin and excludes one from sacramental communion. 2378 - A child is not something owed to one, but is a gift. The supreme gift of marriage is a human person. A child may not be considered a piece of property, an idea to which an alleged "right to a child" would lead. In this area, only the child possesses genuine rights: the right "to be the fruit of the specific act of conjugal love of his parents" and " the right to be respected as a person from the moment of his conception"

For those of us who love to just go watch a movie without worrying about who is doing this to that person, and reading about this critique and if we should be watching for this or that. THIS is the movie for you. I loved the comedy, the one liners, the small jokes that if you don't pay attention you'll miss them, but they are there. But if you're there and wanting to pick apart everything in the movie, you are going to miss all the comedy that's there for you to see. Just go in and enjoy yourself, the chemistry between all these actors is great, and why pay the money if you're not going to have fun. Come on people, for once, don't go in there and sit looking for something to take apart...look for something to just have fun with and this movie will give it to you. We laughed all the way through, there were tiny little things and big things all the way. This was a really good movie and all of us who went together had a lot of fun watching it. A BIG thumbs up!

I wouldn't say this totally sucked, but if it wasn't for Netflix I wouldn't even have this in my house. Steve Martin's eccentric president of a chain of health food stores falls flat. He's just not funny. He's another in a LONG slew of SNL rejects that can only find work whoring themselves to the next SNL movie. The birthing coach with the Elmer Fudd lisp is about as funny as it is original. Amy Poehler simply goes through the same motions she would for a 7 minute SNL skit which is about as funny as SNL lately. The only thing going for this movie is that Tina Fey is easy on the eyes. The ending was predictable as soon as you heard her character couldn't get pregnant. The subject matter could have opened up to other comedic attempts, but it seems to simple simmer along, not really entertaining or creating laughs.

Seriously, I'm not going to go into a bunch of technical junk about why I thought this movie was great...I just did. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are so funny in this movie, the whole cast had GREAT chemistry (and Greg Kinnear is a HOTTIE...even if he is about 20-some years older than me). Some people might think it's not a great movie because there's not a lot to think about but COME ON PEOPLE...Not every movie has to have you stumped ala Memento! This was just a feel good movie with a lot of laugh out loud moments. Though I could never give a movie 10/10, I definitely gave this one a 9. I'd recommend anyone, guy or girl, go see this movie!

Baby Mama was pretty good for the most part. It wasn't very original but pretty fun to watch. Pretty much all of the funny scenes were in the trailer. There were some other funny parts but none that really got you to laugh loud. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler did a great job together. They were very funny and Amy Poehler did a good job acting like a stupid adult. She seems like any movie with her in it are always funnier. She sometimes does get annoying in this and gets on your nerves. I don't think that this will be near the top funniest movies of 2008. It doesn't need to be though it was fun to watch especially if you are going through pregnancy. I think all sorts of people would enjoy this movie. Steve Martin was even in this movie and was very weird. This was more of a joking type of movie. Most of the funny scenes were from jokes. It was sort of boring in the beginning and was to slow moving. Then it finally picked up half way into it. It then got pretty funny and fun to see what the two ladies were going through. This movie was just like Juno, and Knocked Up, so if you liked those you will most likely like this. The characters in this movie were pretty conceded at first and selfish but then get better. Some of the messages were good. They were mostly about doing anything to get a baby if you want one. The story was pretty cliché but cute and funny. Overall this was a pretty good movie. Go see it for a pretty good time.

"Baby Mama" is Tina Fey's first lead film role. It's well-deserved after her work on "Mean Girls" and "30 Rock", and she, along with co-star and former SNL cast mate Amy Poehler, do a really nice job of anchoring this one. Fey plays Kate Holbrook, a successful businesswoman who also happens to be a struggling single one. At 37, Kate decides it's time to try and have a child on her own, but her plans are smashed when she finds out there is only a small chance that she can actually become pregnant. With no other option, Kate finds an unlikely surrogate in Angie (Amy Poehler), a trashy and low-rent girl who could really use the money. After learning that Angie is pregnant, Kate begins baby-prepping. Only what she doesn't expect is the arrival of a pregnant Angie at her door with no place to go. Director and screenwriter Michael McCullers suggests to us early that "Baby Mama" is going to be a tired trip down formula-lane. Kate is an order-nut, Angie is a messy free-spirit, put them together and you have the most predictable storyline ever told. Thankfully enough, McCullers proves clever in finding some fresh laughs here, whether they be from the scary and awkward process of connecting your life with a complete stranger or in the "trivialized" world of modern pregnancy where baby-proofing, the fears of bad eating habits and chemicals in house-hold products, and research books and videos have become exaggerated to the point of causing constant anxiety. The movie is actually damn funny and when it's not it's usually really lovable and it's nice to see a comedy that relies more on wit than on the next crude gag for a change. Fey and Poehler are also a fantastic match. Fey plays self-deprecating and un-hip better than any actress out there and Poehler is a loonier and more zany comedic actress, and their previous work experience on SNL really shows here. Like some of the better buddy comedies of the past, they establish a chemistry that is as friendly and amusing as it is rocky. Having Greg Kinnear play Fey's love interest and Dax Shepherd play Poehler's idiot boyfriend is also perfect casting, as I had just as much fun watching these two comedic actresses toss around with them as I did with each other. And having two veteran and respected actors in your movie helps too. Sigourney Weaver as an older woman whose still as fertile as ever, and Steve Martin as Fey's hippie, vegan boss are both absolutely hilarious. "Baby Mama" begins with an "oh no" but quickly settles into something witty and lovable. The script is smart and funny and the cast couldn't be better, especially Fey and Poehler, who seem very comfortable playing off one another. This movie is a good start to two promising careers, and with any luck, two careers that will hopefully cross paths again in another movie someday.

Don't get me wrong, I love Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and I think they're hilarious in 30 Rock and Parks & Recreation, but this has to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen! It's asinine and predictable, and it contains every cliché in the book about career women, pregnancy, fertility treatment, African American men, vegans, organic food, white trash, and what have you. There's not a shred of originality in the entire movie. Amy Poehler and Dax Shepard (who's great in Parenthood!) are utterly unconvincing as white trash. The actors are talented and they certainly tried, but they couldn't salvage the breathtakingly stupid screenplay. I want my hour and a half back! Luckily we got it through Netflix, so at least my pregnant wife and I didn't pay for two movie tickets to see it.

I was a gestational surrogate for my friends who could not carry on their own. I gave birth to their boy/girl twins in September of 2006. I was let down by this movie in a lot of ways. It was truly a great comedy, but it didn't show the light hearted side of surrogacy I was hoping for. I went into the theater wearing a proud surrogate tee shirt, and came out with my sweater zipped over it. Surrogacy is something that is extremely controversial, and we needed a movie that showed the good side of it. It's so easy to imagine what can go wrong in a situation like that, but the truth is, it's NOTHING like that. It's a very beautiful, amazing thing, and I know that first hand. They portrayed the surrogate as white trash. But I have a group of surrogates I've become very close to, and they are the most insightful, smart, caring women I've ever met. I've yet to meet a white trash surrogate. I've also yet to meet an intended mother who would enlist the help of someone who smokes, lives in a bad neighborhood, who's in an abusive relationship, etc... It simply doesn't happen like that. For those of you questioning why she wouldn't just adopt... The simple answer is what she said in the movie. It can take 5 years to place a child with a single woman, and she felt her biological clock was ticking. It had nothing to do with money. Yes, surrogacy is more expensive than adopting. ($100,000 is completely unrealistic, by the way...) Surrogacy is not a way of avoiding adoption. It's simply another option. The more complicated answer is why would you care? Most people are blessed being able to have children. And nobody ever asks them why they didn't adopt. It's a very personal choice. And anyone who calls it stupid or pointless is simply uneducated and unsympathetic in matters of infertility.

Baby Mama has an immature sense of humor. There are roughly two funny jokes in the entire movie. If you are a woman over age 30 and have had children, you may enjoy this movie slightly. This only applies to upper-middle class women who have nothing better to do than spend their time in this movie. Note that the jokes in this movie are not cheesy in their terribleness, they are just immature and completely void of cleverness. I was dragged into this movie (reluctantly) by my male friends of questionable sexual orientation and maturity. If you are a man or consider yourself to be masculine at all, this movie is not for you. Whether or not you like Saturday Night Live is irrelevant as the humor in Baby Mama is of a completely different genre and quality. The genre is "relate to middle-aged women" and the quality is very low.