Baby Mama is a comedy film directed by Michael McCullers. The plot follows Kate (Tina Fey), a successful career woman who has decided she wants to have a baby, she can’t do it herself, so she hires a surrogate Angie (Amy Poehler). The two women argue and disagree sharply about how best to treat the baby and then it is revealed that Angie was never really pregnant in the first place.
This film was one of the most boring and generic films I have seen in a long time. There was nothing new or original about it, I heard of films wanting to play it safe, but this was a whole other level. This film to me felt too clean, by that I mean it felt very fake and overly happy and sentimental, it didn’t really focus on the messy parts of having kids just a larger than life dumb comedic premise.
The humour again feels too safe, the jokes feel almost as though they were written for a kid’s movie. The humour didn’t land once for me and I didn’t connect with the films attempts at heart either.
Overall, to me, this is an incredibly bland film that doesn’t do or say anything interesting. It struggled to keep me engaged after the first ten minutes and I wanted to turn it off many times thereafter. This film screams Hollywood executives to me, it feels as though it was made by a focus group to be as inoffensive and as overly people pleasing as possible. Don’t waste your time with this, it is one of the weakest comedy films I have seen in a long time.
Pros.
Dax Shepard is mildly amusing
Cons.
It is too safe
It isn’t funny
Neither Fey or Poehler are likeable or entertaining to watch
It is boring
0.5/5
Reviewed by Luke
Another Millennial Reviewer 