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Baby Mama (2008)

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Average rating: 61%
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Starring: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver, Greg Kinnear, Romany Malco, Dax Shepard, Maura Tierney, Holland Taylor, Curt Carlson, Dennis Albanese
Director: Michael McCullers
Studio: UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK
Run time: 96 mins
Certificate: 12
Genres: Comedy
Languages: English
Released: 16/03/2009

Brief synopsis of Baby Mama

Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she's finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. Simple enough? After learning from the steely head of their surrogacy center that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode: reading childcare books, baby-proofing the apartment and researching top pre-schools. But the executive's well-organized strategy is turned upside down when her "baby mama" shows up at her doorstep with no place to live. An unstoppable force meets an immovable object as structured Kate tries to turn vibrant Angie into the perfect expectant mom. In a comic battle of wills, they will struggle their way through preparation for the baby's arrival. And, in the middle of this tug-of-war, they'll discover two kinds of family: the one you're born to and the one you make.

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Tom Charity, LOVEFiLM
The clock is ticking for 37-year-old Kate (Tina Fey), a successful executive with an organic food company, but still single, and worse, cursed with an abnormal T shaped uterus. Her chances of... read more »

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	  stars out of 5 Jessica Winter, Time Out

Tina Fey, lately of 30 Rock, made some kind of American entertainment history when she became the first female... Read more on www.timeout.com

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Rated - 3 starsTINA FEY FOR VICE PRESIDENT!

A customer from Liverpool , 28/11/2008

(3 1/2 stars)

You got to love Tina Fey. Anyone who can pull off an impersonation of Sarah Palin like she did on Saturday Night Live deserves mounts of Kudos. We already knew she was funny, witty and a very talented actress (for proof see Mean Girls/ 30 Rock).

Fey is indeed the reason to watch Baby Mama, she gets the best bits and lines by far ('I really don't like your uterus.'-'Stop saying that!!'), while Amy Poehler's portrayal of the aura reading but otherwise bad news loan mama is run of the mill at best, grating at the the worst.

Baby Mama does not pretend to be anything other than good humoured, kinda feel good, lightweight entertainment- and as such it is just what it says on the baby food tin. Tina plays the career driven, bit prim, well off woman who gets told she in all likelihood cannot have kids. She signs up with Sigourney Weaver (fabulous by the way) for a rent-a-mom, i.e. Amy Poehler receiving lots of money to carry Tina's child. Needless to say, things go a bit awry and see the two very different women clash and come to heads.

No brownie points for guessing any of the plot twists or outcomes, but hey: watch it in the light hearted spirit it is aimed at and you might even enjoy it.

GOOD, BUT NOT GREAT.

SEE THIS IF YOU LIKED

* MEAN GIRLS

* BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE

* SWEET HOME ALABAMA

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Rated - 2 starsNot very funny - what a shame

A customer from Glasgow, Scotland , 23/07/2008

It could have been all so different: An interesting story idea (surrogacy), great actors and even nice filming. Yet most jokes are 'lame' or simply awful, and the storyline is rather boring. If you like recent similar films such as 'Juno' or 'Knocked Up', you will be disappointed. If you haven't seen them yet, watch them instead!

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Rated - 3 starsyou the mama

Joi from Rochester [Highly rated reviewer] , 23/08/2008

In what’s probably described as a chick flick, the frisson of tension or on screen chemistry in the relationship between actors Tina Fey and Greg Kinnear marries making a good view. As does the premise of the story and the money rules but all surrounding babies can go wrong…no matter how much planning…..Though handled in a basic thought out comedy …… some stuff seems true - so believable. There are a few Steve Martin and Sigourney Weaver cameos, overall good viewing, if a little predictable

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Rated - 3 starsTINA FEY FOR VICE PRESIDENT!

A customer from Liverpool , 28/11/2008

(3 1/2 stars)

You got to love Tina Fey. Anyone who can pull off an impersonation of Sarah Palin like she did on Saturday Night Live deserves mounts of Kudos. We already knew she was funny, witty and a very talented actress (for proof see Mean Girls/ 30 Rock).

Fey is indeed the reason to watch Baby Mama, she gets the best bits and lines by far ('I really don't like your uterus.'-'Stop saying that!!'), while Amy Poehler's portrayal of the aura reading but otherwise bad news loan mama is run of the mill at best, grating at the the worst.

Baby Mama does not pretend to be anything other than good humoured, kinda feel good, lightweight entertainment- and as such it is just what it says on the baby food tin. Tina plays the career driven, bit prim, well off woman who gets told she in all likelihood cannot have kids. She signs up with Sigourney Weaver (fabulous by the way) for a rent-a-mom, i.e. Amy Poehler receiving lots of money to carry Tina's child. Needless to say, things go a bit awry and see the two very different women clash and come to heads.

No brownie points for guessing any of the plot twists or outcomes, but hey: watch it in the light hearted spirit it is aimed at and you might even enjoy it.

GOOD, BUT NOT GREAT.

SEE THIS IF YOU LIKED

* MEAN GIRLS

* BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE

* SWEET HOME ALABAMA

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Rated - 3 starsyou the mama

Joi from Rochester [Highly rated reviewer] , 23/08/2008

In what’s probably described as a chick flick, the frisson of tension or on screen chemistry in the relationship between actors Tina Fey and Greg Kinnear marries making a good view. As does the premise of the story and the money rules but all surrounding babies can go wrong…no matter how much planning…..Though handled in a basic thought out comedy …… some stuff seems true - so believable. There are a few Steve Martin and Sigourney Weaver cameos, overall good viewing, if a little predictable

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