Article: `Baby' dull; Talented team delivers a dud.(Arts and Lifestyle)

Byline: JAMES VERNIERE

"BABY MAMA"

Rated PG-13. At AMC Loews Boston Common, Regal Fenway Stadium and suburban theaters.

Grade: C+

In Preston Sturges' 1944 screwball comedy "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek," comedienne extraordinaire Betty Hutton plays Trudy Kockenlocker (I kid you not), a not-so-innocent small-town gal who wakes up the day after a party for departing troops to discover that she is a) married and b) pregnant. But she can't remember who is the husband or father of her baby.

Compared to that scandalous farce, and even to such recent pregnancy-themed comedy hits as "Knocked Up" and "Juno," the 2008 release "Baby ...

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