Article: Also showing; Baby Mama (12A) Rating: ***.(News)

Article: Womb Mates; In 'Baby Mama,' The Laughs Have Time to Gestate
The Washington Post;  April 25, 2008 ;     687 words ..."Baby Mama" isn't exactly laugh-out-loud funny...comedy of 21st-century manners. As "Baby Mama" opens, Kate Holbrook (Fey) explains...after I discontinued high school," and "Baby Mama" continues in this vein, almost but not...

Article: Film Review: Baby Mama: Surrogacy jokes fail to deliver
Scotland on Sunday;  July 27, 2008 ;     369 words ...BABY MAMA (12A) *** Director: Michael McCullers...comedy, option two never gets explored in Baby Mama. Instead it arrives pregnant with a groanworthy...why she shouldn't urinate in the sink. Baby Mama's main star is Fey, who created Five's...

Article: One Bad Mama
Monterey County Weekly;  April 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ......comedy grates expectations for Tina Fey. BABY MAMA *1/2 Directed by Michael McCullers...TVs funniest sitcom. In the new comedy Baby Mama, Fey's big-screen alter ego Kate Holbrook...self-deprecating careerist. It's easy to imagine Baby Mama's surrogate pregnancy plot as on 30 Rock...

Article: Despite limitations, 'Baby Mama' delivers.(L&E, Suburban Life & Entertainment)(Movie review)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  April 24, 2008 ;     578 words ...Byline: Dann Gire Daily Herald Film Critic Baby Mama ** 1/2 stars Starring: Tina Fey, Amy...cuter than buttons, and her new comedy, Baby Mama, punches most of the right ones when...biological clock has sounded the alarm. Baby Mama works like a lighter, frothier version...

Article: Predictable 'Baby Mama' inconceivably comic.(Time Out!)(Movie review)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  April 25, 2008 ;     577 words ......Herald Film Critic dgire@@dailyherald.com Baby Mama * * 1/2 Starring: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler...cuter than buttons, and her new comedy, Baby Mama, punches most of the right ones when...biological clock has sounded the alarm. Baby Mama works like a lighter, frothier version...

Article: For Low-Key Laughs, Come to 'Mama'
The Washington Post;  April 25, 2008 ;     339 words ..."Baby Mama" isn't exactly laugh-out-loud funny...after I discontinued high school," and "Baby Mama" continues in this vein, almost but not...the contrived confines of its genre, "Baby Mama," which was written and directed by Michael...

Article: 'Baby Mama' delivers laughs.(Life-Screens)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  April 25, 2008 ;     656 words ......instant comedy. The funny, felicitous Baby Mama exploits every stage of pregnancy except...this kinetic blond Gumby doll, Fey is Baby Mama's decent and slightly alarmed straight...a busybody doorman, defining the term baby mama (n, slang); and Steve Martin, as Kate...

Article: Boring and juvenile 'Baby Mama' a whole lot of blah
SouthtownStar (Chicago, IL);  May 1, 2008 ;     577 words ......SNL colleague, Amy Poehler, can save "Baby Mama." This surrogate mother comedy comes...convoluted and not a very compelling story, "Baby Mama" resorts to another tired formula. Fey...which fall miserably flat - I hoped "Baby Mama" would have given more insight into the...

Article: 'Baby Mama' a chick flick even for the guys
SouthtownStar (Chicago, IL);  May 9, 2008 ;     551 words ......and "30 Rock" and in the new movie "Baby Mama" to be the new queens of comedy. One...together, and they make a movie like "Baby Mama" an enjoyable time at the show, even...likeable and the movie is funny enough that "Baby Mama" turns out to guy-friendly, too. Guys...

Article: BABY MAMA
Monterey County Weekly;  May 15, 2008 ;     82 words ...BABY MAMA * 1/2 It's easy to imagine Baby Mama's surrogate pregnancy plot as a multiple-episode, sweeps-month...because the 30 Rock story would be snappy and insightful, whereas Baby Mama is leaden and obvious. Former Saturday Night Live writer Michael...

Article: `Baby' dull; Talented team delivers a dud.(Arts and Lifestyle)
The Boston Herald;  April 25, 2008 ;     474 words ...Byline: JAMES VERNIERE BABY MAMA Rated PG-13. At AMC Loews Boston...Knocked Up and Juno, the 2008 release Baby Mama is thin gruel indeed. The talented...Saturday Night Live staff writer, Baby Mama has its moments. Fey and Poehler...

Article: 88 Minutes / Baby Mama
Pittsburgh City Paper;  April 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ...88 Minutes / Baby Mama The Clock Is Ticking WHAT DO A SERIAL-KILL...decides kill the murderer first. In Baby Mama, meanwhile, it's the countdown of a...domestic in Michael McCuller's comedy Baby Mama, which toggles between wry and easy...

Article: Double act delivers winning formula; movies.(Features)
Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England);  July 28, 2008 ;     430 words ......parenthood on their terms. Baby Mama is an entertaining comedy...unabashedly frothy fun that provides plum roles for Saturday Night...yet touching friendship. Baby Mama doesn't have a single mean-spirit...pretend to be Kate's sister. Baby Mama, meanwhile, delivers an ...

Article: BABY BOOMER ; 'Baby Mama' delivers healthy laughs
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  April 25, 2008 ;     292 words ......teams born on "Saturday Night Live." In "Baby Mama" this dynamic duo delivers the laughs...first-time director Michael McCullers spares "Baby Mama" a long labor. It's just the right length...is the unlikely voice of reason as the baby mama drama unfolds. Sporting a ponytail, Steve...