Shawn's Baby Mama Review

2008 Movie #55 - Baby Mama

Tina Fey is awesome and I will pretty much watch anything she is a part of. The previews for this movie didn't do anything for me so I wasn't expecting a whole lot from it. In the end it was better than I expected, but still not the funniest movie you could go out there and watch at the moment.

The main reason the movie works as well as it does is because of it's cast. The script itself isn't great but the cast does their best and makes the movie much funnier than it may have been otherwise. The highlights are of course Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as the two lead characters. They were great together on Saturday Night Live and they are great together in this movie as well. The supporting cast is good as well, with Romany Malco, Dax Shepard and especially Steve Martin (who I had forgotten was even in this movie) are all funny in supporting roles. The one character I didn't find funny was Sigourney Weaver's, who essentially exists to tell the same joke over and over again.

Unfortunatly this movie falls prey to something that many comedies do, and that's getting sentimental in the final stages. Many comedies try to go this route and most of the time it doesn't really work. It doesn't work too badly here, but it never stops feeling unneccessary.

Although the movie was never really fall down laugh out loud funny, at least for me, it was always just pleasant. It was a fun movie. It had some good laughs but I would still recommend Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Harold and Kumar in terms of what is the best comedy out there right now. Unless you really want to laugh your ass off, then you get some buddies together and watch the Prom Night remake. Now that shit is hilarious.

***/5