5/5 Love this movie
  by J. Dorfman
Baby Mama is histerical! I watch it over and over like a child with a Disney movie. Smart humor everyone can appreciate, and deals with touchy topics without being offensive.

5/5 Need a Laugh...this will do it!
  by Mo Essence (Columbia, SC)
I love this movie! I think I watch it 7x a week. I can't get enough of Tina Fey and Amy...This movie, although quirky is a worthwhile watch and make you look at life---differently...In a good way!

4/5 great comedy
  by B. E Jackson (Pennsylvania)
Baby Mama is pretty hilarious. You probably already know the storyline so there's no need to touch up on that. I'm surprised so many people didn't like the movie to be honest. It did just about everything right.

It's a funny movie because the blonde-haired woman who was supposedly carrying the baby (Amy Poehler's character) kept acting like a child herself! She'd eat so many chocolate cakes she'd end up making herself sick, she'd play the American Idol video game all day long, she'd pee in the bathroom sink, all because she was COMPLETELY uninterested in having a baby.

There's a bunch of twists to the storyline, and all of them managed to keep my interest. Twists that concern which woman is actually pregnant, and who's the father. No, this is NOT your typical chick flick with terrible acting bits involving "who's the father- could it be that smiley pretty boy guy over there who's completely unfunny but thinks he's good looking?" type of comedy. Nah, Baby Mama is more interesting than that (the male characters are actually GOOD) and to be honest, guys out there watching the movie might find something appealing and humorous about Baby Mama too.

The movie also does a pretty good job going through lots of emotions. Sometimes the characters are sad, sometimes happy, other times just confused and miserable, haha. I guess that's what it's like when pregnant.

But Baby Mama is more about comedy above everything else, and succeeds mainly because of Amy Poehler's character. Recommended.


3/5 3.5--Place Two Talented Mama's with One Mediocre Film doesn't really Add Up
  by Jenny J.J.I. (That Lives in Northern Nevada)
To its credit, "Baby Mama" is not your typical one-joke movie starring "Saturday Night Live" alums. It's more of a one-and-a-half joke movie. In "Mama", Tina Fey's OCD career woman, unable to conceive and unwilling to wait for an adoption, hires Amy Poehler's ADD surrogate mother to carry her baby. How will this odd couple survive nine months together? With hilarious results, of course. Well, moderately hilarious, at least, thanks in large part to its two seriously talented comedic leads. This contemporary comedy draws our attention to the business of babies. It does so however in such a hackneyed fashion that if it weren't for the talented mama's at the forefront of it all, it would be little more than a painful delivery.

Personally I feel that "Mama" is written, with one contrivance too many, by Michael McCullers who co-wrote the last two "Austin Powers" movies. Mr. McCullers makes his directorial debut here but, even at 96 minutes, "Mama" eventually runs awfully thin. There are certainly some good moments, particularly when the two leads are given time to riff off each other. Ms. Poehler, in particular, is given a wide berth (pun intended). Ms. Fey however, so winning on the small screen, is put to the test here. As the consummate straight-woman, her range (and the script) is too limited to inject any real depth into the material. "Mama" treats the sensitivity of its topic with kid gloves - it's missing Ms. Fey's deft comic hand (the one that has made "30 Rock", against all odds, one of the best comedy on television). Even 1987's similarly-themed Diane Keaton vehicle "Baby Boom" held more weight. Even without a gestation specialist.

Like I said before Michael McCullers made the comedy here far too broad and predictable, robbing the talented actors of anything with which to play. I don't know if someone at Saturday Night Live had a surrogate, but that idea certainly was kicking around the set. I would recommended this film only if you have a few lazy days put aside.


3/5 Somewhat disappointing
  by Clara (MD)
Baby Mama is OK but not great. Tina Fey, Steve Martin and Amy Poehler deserve a much better script. Tina Fey's character is trying to become a mother although she is single. Amy Poehler's character is the surrogate. I won't give away the plot such as it was, but there is a nice twist at the end. Some of it was just too hokey.

In my opinion this is a one time view and not worth buying. I got it on Netflix.