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16 September 2008 12:24 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Baby Mama is the type of good-natured adult comedy I want to like more than I actually do. There are some extremely funny moments and some highly agreeable performances, but overall the film moves a bit sluggishly and never catches fire in the ways it should. While the potential for greatness is definitely there, unfortunately there is a feeling of safe blandness bordering on the predictable, and while there's little I can truly rail against here there's just as few virtues to extol. This is a movie that plays almost 100-percent better at home than it did in the theater. Many of the things that initially annoyed me didn't affect me as much while sitting on my couch. The flaws were still there, I just was able to shrug them off a bit easier. That's not exactly a recommendation, but it still speaks volumes as to how the majority of audiences will probably respond.

Sara Michelle Fetters

9 September 2008 8:52 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Filed under: New on DVD, Home Entertainment

Welcome to Cinematical's revamped but still opinionated guide to movies on disc, whether new-fangled Blu-ray or good old fashioned DVD, Hollywood blockbusters or indie wonders, direct to video debuts or refurbished classics.

Buy: The Fall

Rent: Baby Mama, The Forbidden Kingdom, How the West Was Won

Pass: Foreign Exchange, Seed, Sarah Landon & The Paranormal Hour, Then She Found Me

Blu-ray Spotlight: Exiled, Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2, Jerry Maguire, Cool Hand Luke, Rudy

Indies on DVD: Heckler, The Last Days of Left Eye, Last House on the Beach

Collector's Corner: The Big Lebowski, Child's Play, Pumpkinhead

The Fall.

Directed by Tarsem (The Cell), this incredible visual feast, filmed over four years, imagines the fantastical, far-flung stories told to a little girl recovering from a fall in a hospital. A wild, weird trip of a flick that cries out to be replayed time and again. Extras include deleted scenes,

Peter Martin

28 April 2008 8:05 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Baby Mama has entered the Us box office chart at number one. The comedy, which stars Saturday Night Live alumni Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, focuses on a businesswoman who hires a working class woman to carry her child.

The Michael McCullers film held off competition from comedy sequel Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay to secure the top spot.

The only other new entry, Deception, a thriller starring Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor, performed disappointingly, debuting in the chart . . .

Simon_Reynolds_imdb_@digitalspy.co.uk (Simon Reynolds)

21 April 2008 8:31 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

While we pace the carpet back and forth in anticipation of the fast-approaching Tribeca Film Festival (kicking off on Wednesday), we can bide our time with a puppet kidnapping, some Bollywood royalty and an Ewan McGregor sighting.

"Baby Mama"

If the fad of pregnancy movies began with last year's "Knocked Up," it reaches its second trimester with "Baby Mama," which stars comedy goddess Tina Fey as a wannabe mom who's fast approaching 40 and Fey's one-time Weekend Update deskmate Amy Poehler as the uncouth oddball who offers up the use of her womb in exchange for a bit of cash. Appropriately enough, former "SNL" scribe Michael McCullers makes his directorial debut with the offbeat comedy, which could serve as "Juno" for people deemed too fuddy-duddy to find the term "home skillet" amusing. "Baby Mama"'s also serving as Tribeca's opening night film.

Opens wide.

"Deal"

Gil Cates Jr.

Neil Pedley

4 articles from 2008