Kate (Fey) is successful, vice president for her company with a cushy apartment, but all she wants is to start a family. With her biological clock ticking, she tries various options to no avail. With no where else to turn, she decides to find a surrogate to carry her child. She is paired with Angie (Poehler) who is a bit rough around the edges. Angie is having relationship issues with her common law husband Carl (Shepard), and moves in with Kate. Together, they attend birthing classes and prepare the house for the baby.
While looking for a location for her boss Barry's (Martin) new store location, she meets Rob (Kinnear) who runs a smoothie store...which is similar to Jamba Juice, but he is fighting against them. They start a relationship, and Angie gets the doorman Oscar (Malco) to help her practice giving birth and fixing things in the apartment.
While looking for a picture for this post, I was reading other reviews...and apparently a lot of people weren't impressed. I'm not really sure what they were thinking. Tina Fey does neurotic well, and you sympathize with her character. She proves this on a weekly basis with 30 Rock, and her work on SNL. Amy Poehler, also an SNL alum, takes her character through a range of emotions and consistently delivers laughs. The rest of the cast is o.k. Steve Martin's Barry is over-the-top, but still funny. The weakest characters are Sigourney Weaver's Chaffee (unnecessary and just weird), and Dax Shepard's Carl (slime ball). Overall it was a funny movie, but it could have been better.
Baby Mama (2008) 99 minutes
Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language and a drug reference
Director: Michael McCullers
Starring: Amy Poehler as Angie Ostrowiski
Tina Fey as Kate Holbrook
Greg Kinnear as Rob Ackerman
Dax Shepard as Carl Loomis
Romany Malco as Oscar
Sigourney Weaver as Chaffee Bicknell
Steve Martin as Barry
While looking for a location for her boss Barry's (Martin) new store location, she meets Rob (Kinnear) who runs a smoothie store...which is similar to Jamba Juice, but he is fighting against them. They start a relationship, and Angie gets the doorman Oscar (Malco) to help her practice giving birth and fixing things in the apartment.
While looking for a picture for this post, I was reading other reviews...and apparently a lot of people weren't impressed. I'm not really sure what they were thinking. Tina Fey does neurotic well, and you sympathize with her character. She proves this on a weekly basis with 30 Rock, and her work on SNL. Amy Poehler, also an SNL alum, takes her character through a range of emotions and consistently delivers laughs. The rest of the cast is o.k. Steve Martin's Barry is over-the-top, but still funny. The weakest characters are Sigourney Weaver's Chaffee (unnecessary and just weird), and Dax Shepard's Carl (slime ball). Overall it was a funny movie, but it could have been better.
Baby Mama (2008) 99 minutes
Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language and a drug reference
Director: Michael McCullers
Starring: Amy Poehler as Angie Ostrowiski
Tina Fey as Kate Holbrook
Greg Kinnear as Rob Ackerman
Dax Shepard as Carl Loomis
Romany Malco as Oscar
Sigourney Weaver as Chaffee Bicknell
Steve Martin as Barry
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