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Article: Poehler, Fey fail to click in 'Baby Mama'

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April 26, 2008
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"Baby Mama" is a pleasantly predictable new wrinkle on the "moving to the mommy track" comedy, which "Baby Boom" launched lo those many years ago. It's about surrogacy, or as the annoying entrepreneur-zealot (Sigourney Weaver) puts it, hooking up fertile women with those who can't have kids.

Tina Fey stars as Kate, 37 years old and hearing her biological clock's alarm go off.

But Kate's been career-oriented, tossing over men who want to settle down so that she could rise to vice president of Round Earth foods, a trendy organic supermarket chain. Now, working for the goofy guru in charge (Steve Martin, channeling every surfing, New Age pony-tailed corporate cliche in film history) isn't ...

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