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Predictably cute tale of our times
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Although it certainly sets the stage for some fertile comedy, Baby Mama – which pairs successful Philadelphia exec Kate (Tina Fey) with her decidedly white-trash surrogate, Angie (Amy Poehler) – never fully delivers.
Backed by a crackerjack supporting cast, the new-millennium take on "Baby Boom" serves up plenty of smart, knowing laughs early on, but by the time it hits the third act (or would that be trimester?), it barely makes the finish line.
Kate is an unmarried vice-president of Round Earth Organic Market, a Whole Foods-esque chain presided over by an amusingly Zen Steve Martin. The only thing missing in her life is a baby, and after being informed by a fertility specialist that her odds of getting pregnant run about one in a million, she opts to visit a pricey surrogacy centre.
But the woman chosen to carry her child – the gum-cracking, cocktail-swigging Angie – could not be more different from buttoned-down Kate, and when the plot mechanics require that the two share close living quarters, the inevitable "odd couple" shenanigans ensue.
Luckily for director Michael McCullers, his expert cast, also including Greg Kinnear as Kate's fruit smoothie-dispensing potential love interest, Holland Taylor as her strongly opinionated mother, and Dax Shepard as Angie's scheming common-law husband manages to keep this baby sufficiently entertaining.
Backed by a crackerjack supporting cast, the new-millennium take on "Baby Boom" serves up plenty of smart, knowing laughs early on, but by the time it hits the third act (or would that be trimester?), it barely makes the finish line.
Kate is an unmarried vice-president of Round Earth Organic Market, a Whole Foods-esque chain presided over by an amusingly Zen Steve Martin. The only thing missing in her life is a baby, and after being informed by a fertility specialist that her odds of getting pregnant run about one in a million, she opts to visit a pricey surrogacy centre.
But the woman chosen to carry her child – the gum-cracking, cocktail-swigging Angie – could not be more different from buttoned-down Kate, and when the plot mechanics require that the two share close living quarters, the inevitable "odd couple" shenanigans ensue.
Luckily for director Michael McCullers, his expert cast, also including Greg Kinnear as Kate's fruit smoothie-dispensing potential love interest, Holland Taylor as her strongly opinionated mother, and Dax Shepard as Angie's scheming common-law husband manages to keep this baby sufficiently entertaining.