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Article: Review: `Baby Mama' goes easy on mommy culture
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- April 25, 2008
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Tina Fey didn't write "Baby Mama," though you'd be forgiven for walking into it and assuming she did. After all, her face appears prominently on the movie's ubiquitous posters, alongside that of co-star and former "Saturday Night Live" cast mate Amy Poehler.
The script actually comes from first-time director Michael McCullers, who previously wrote the second and third "Austin Powers" movies, but it could have used more of the mean girl. Mommy culture, with its capacity for smugness and solipsism, seems like a ripe topic for parody, but "Baby Mama" approaches it with kid gloves.
The movie certainly has its zingers here and there, and ...