Movie 62: Baby Mama

Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) has had a successful life. At least a successful working life. But one thing is missing, a baby. She finds out that she’s unable to conceive and goes to a surrogacy service. There she’s paired up with Angie (Amy Poehler), a white trash idiot. Cue the odd couple theme tune

With a cast like this film has it should be hilarious. With a premise like this film has it should suck. It’s neither.

The first half is a little boring, particularly in the early stages when Fey’s character is just baby nuts. And the red neck couple are short on laughs. After that it does pick up a fair bit, and the second half was home to most chuckles. Your not going to bust any guts with this one though.

I love Tina Fey. She’s just okay for the most part in this though. Given the right material, hopefully this years Date Night will have that, she could have a pretty big film career. But she’s got 30 Rock already

Steve Martin used to be funny. He’s generally not now. However, his hippy guru type character here hits the rights marks. The same can be said of Sigourney Weavers ridiculously fertile character who heads up the surrogacy agency.

It’s all fine, but it’s a full blown TV watch. If it happens to be on the stick about for a bit. But don’t go hunting

And why the hell do they give Tina that retarded high hair ski slope look when they doll her up? Looks awful. You know that hair lump instead of a fringe thing, where the fringe is kind of pinned in the middle of your head? A hair horn? Always looks awful….

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