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Sigourney Weaver
Tina Fey
Amy Poehler
Greg Kinnear
Dax Shepard
Curt Carlson

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Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) is a successful business woman who finds she is infertile but desperately wants a baby. She hires Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler) to be her unlikely surrogate. -- Josh C

11/09/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Could have been good

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler make a great team, and this film had potential, but it's another example of a film that started off fine, then turned in a wrong direction and became a disappointment. Fey and Poehler play off each other well initially but about halfway through we change from comedy to a bit of a soap-opera style drama. I found myself wishing it had stuck to its initial idea of a wacky surrogate carrying the baby of an uptight mom wannabe.

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2/4 

09/18/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Almost...

Tina Fey being one of my favorite ladies, with her sharp, silly-but-never-stupid writing skills bringing her to crush-level, I wanted so much more from this...her name under "Screenplay by" for instance. Ah, but her mere presence was enough for me to give it a go, and though it is in no way perfect, Baby Mama does have many redeeming qualities - and many laughs (Especially when compared to other female lead comedies.)

Fey and Poehler are a sparkling duo, they manage to keep up that great chemistry through a story that clunks every so often. All other characters seem incredibly minor - with Sigourney Weaver and Steve Martin almost, but not quite getting to the laugh-level they should have with their unusual roles. The love-story element was also missing something, and felt a little to...

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2.5/4 

07/16/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

I Laughed So Much to the Point of Embarrassment

This film made me smile from ear to ear from the time it started until the credits started rolling. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler is an excellent duo because each of them are funny in a different way. Poehler is more goofy-funny (I still laugh every time I think of her, "Bitch! I don't know your life!" line). Fey is more low-key/smart funny. That's why they work well together. The script is witty in its own way and it's nicely paced. One-liners are abound and I couldn't help but think about them on the way home. All the characters had something to contribute to the overall picture, which is nice to see in the comedy genre. The only minor problem I had with it is that it sometimes resulted to cliches (the romance between Fey and Greg Kinnear). Nonetheless, this definitely made me and my friend ...

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4/4