What a beautiful movie!
... View MorePeople are voting emotionally.
... View MoreA film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
... View MoreThis is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
... View MoreThis film tells the story of a successful executive who hires a surrogate mother to carry her child.I think this comedy is quite bitter sweet. It has a lot of laughs, it has romance and it has a lot of emotions too. The fact that it centrally features a woman who really wants children but can't have one can be a rather sensitive issue. Overall, I enjoyed the film, particular the romance part.
... View MoreA lot of laughs are to be had in this movie, an engaging buddy comedy with the excellent proved comediennes Amy Poehler and Tina Fey.The leads seem to work really well together as I believe that they have done so in the past, perhaps on Saturday Night Live? The dialogue is excellent and is the main component of the film. I feel certain that a lot of it is ad-libbed. The best lines were definitely reserved for the father of the baby (Dax Shepard), said sometimes with an almost embarrassed air; as some of them are somewhat politically incorrect, but generally just outrageously idiotic and ignorant.A jolly entertainment for most modern adults, possibly not however for those of a conservative bent.
... View MoreTina Fey really knows how to play against her looks in order to get laughs. In fact, the key to Fey's success is that she's a natural-born geek trapped in a beautiful woman's body. The characters she plays (including the one in "30 Rock") are invariably social klutzes who good-naturedly tolerate the absurdities and idiosyncrasies of the world around them. While in many ways she is an outcast from her society, she also appears more "sane" than many of the people who share a stage with her. As a result, she allows us to laugh at the weaknesses and absurdity of many of our fellow human beings without feeling superior to them.In "Baby Mama," she stars as Kate, a single, 37-year-old control freak whose biological clock has begun keeping her up at night. Cursed with a "T-shaped uterus" and rejected by one adoption agency after another, Kate turns to surrogacy as her only viable pathway to motherhood. Enter Angie, played by the equally brilliant Amy Poehler, a trash-talking, junk-food-eating but lovable slob who agrees to help Kate have the baby she's always wanted – for a price. Thus, these polar opposites march together into that nine-month-long period of heightened hormones known as pregnancy.Written and directed by Michael McCullers, "Baby Mama" is a wonderful throwback to all those sturdily constructed screwball comedies of the past that draw their strength from clever dialogue, a series of humorous misunderstandings, and deftly executed slapstick routines, all put forth by true-blue, certified comics who really know the tricks of their trade. In addition to Fey and Poehlor, perhaps the two top comediennes working in the business today, there are fine contributions from the ageless Steve Martin as Kate's blissed-out New Age boss, who owns a chain of whole foods stores; Dax Shepard ("Parenthood") as Angie's long term boyfriend; Greg Kinnear as Kate's anti-corporate love interest; Holland Taylor as Kate's hilariously outspoken and disapproving mom; Siguorney Weaver as the perpetually pregnant head of the surrogacy company Kate employs; and Romany Malco as a nosy doorman who isn't afraid to add his two-cents in when it comes to the events of Kate's life.Clearly a product of people of talent, "Baby Mama" is a hilarious and endearing comedy that even manages to throw a bit of painless social commentary into the mix for good measure.
... View MoreTina Fey and Amy Poehler are the glue that holds Baby Mama together. With two less likable funny-women, or two actresses that lack their chemistry, it wouldn't be nearly as funny as it is. The story deals with surrogacy, and the issues that new types of reproduction technology introduce into age-old human relationships. There's an unnecessary romantic subplot shoe-horned in the narrative, as well (it's virtually against the law to not include one, right?), but the majority of the comedy results from the relationship between Tina's straight-laced career woman, and Amy's not-so-straight-laced character. It's all ridiculous and absurd, and I enjoyed ever minute of it. The ending falters a bit, in its efforts to give everyone a happy resolution, but the movie overall is a solid comedy.
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