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Review - Baby Mama

March 8th 2009 09:51

Baby Mama operates on a simple premise. Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) is single, successful and 37. Her body clock is desperately ticking and she wants a child now. Told by the doctors that she is unable to conceive naturally, she looks to surrogacy as an option to have a child. The surrogate mother Angie (Amy Poehler) is having issues of her own and complications arise in her own life making the path of surrogacy not run as smooth as it ought.

Anyone who has ever had children, been around children, been pregnant, tried to get pregnant or spent five minutes with anyone who is pregnant, knows that comical moments abound. Unfortunately for this comedy pitted around the situation of these two women, it is rarely funny and falls flat more often than not.

Written and directed by Michael McCullers (writer for two of the Austin Powers' movies), the script fails to deliver. As a fan of 30 Rock written by Tina Fey, I couldn't help but feel it would have been better having been co-written by Tina - or for that matter - any women - to offer more humour from a woman's standpoint. An episode of 30 Rock was aired in 2007 entitled "The Baby Show" in which Liz's (Tina Fey) biological clock is ticking and this episode had more humour than this whole movie.

Steve Martin and Sigourney Weaver appear in the film as Kate's boss Barry and surrogacy organiser and breeder Chaffee Bicknell respectively. Greg Kinnear plays the love interest for Kate and disappointingly for him, this role failed to inspire me as much as his recent role in Ghost Town with Ricky Gervais.

There were some funny moments. When Kate and Angie attend a birthing class (featuring Siobhan Fallon Hogan), Angie puts up her hand to volunteer for toxic western medication to drug the baby for her own selfish comfort. I laughed as I recall doing the very same thing. But all in all the solid acting could not raise the bar above predictability and mediocrity.

Voyage Review: 2.5/5

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