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Baby Mama (2008) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars Baby Mama (2008) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
Overall Rating:2.5100
Avg Critic Score:2.4486

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Excellent
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Very Good
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Good
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Fair
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Poor
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Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for New York Times (Manohla Dargis) New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
The new comedy Baby Mama never comes fully to term, as it were. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for MovieWeb (Matt Sheehan) MovieWeb (Matt Sheehan)
Tina Fey is a goddess among writing geeks, influencing the comedy world since her tenure as the first female head writer of "Saturday Night Live" from 1999 to 2006. Her sharp wit and talent for writing relevant material resonates ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at MovieWeb (Matt Sheehan)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Metromix.com (Matt Pais) Metromix.com (Matt Pais)
[Fey and Poehler's] appealing rapport bumps the movie up from 'just fine' to 'good enough,' even if both are good enough to do something that's more than fine. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Metromix.com (Matt Pais)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for New York Daily News (Joe Neumaier) New York Daily News (Joe Neumaier)
In a pleasing contrast to Fey's sharpness, Poehler keeps her performance unpredictable and fuzzy. In this just-add-water comedy, a very funny movie star is born. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at New York Daily News (Joe Neumaier)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for ReelzChannel.com (Jeff Otto) ReelzChannel.com (Jeff Otto)
For such a talented cast Baby Mama unfortunately misses the mark. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at ReelzChannel.com (Jeff Otto)

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Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore) Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
There are a couple of minor surprises and enough laughs and truisms floating around the supporting cast to make this an easy comedy to watch. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Spirituality and Practice (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat) Spirituality and Practice (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
A comedy boasting fetching performances by Saturday Night Live stars Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Spirituality and Practice (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for ReelzChannel (Jeff Otto) ReelzChannel (Jeff Otto)
The consistently funny Tina Fey and Amy Poehler star in the intermittently funny Baby Mama. Fey is Katie Holbrook, a driven career woman who has put her life on hold to get ahead. Approaching middle age, she becomes obsessed with the idea of having a ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at ReelzChannel (Jeff Otto)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.25 out of 4 stars for The Onion A.V. Club The Onion A.V. Club
Fans of Tina Fey never know which Fey will show up to a new project. Sometimes it's the warm-but-diamond-sharp Fey who created and stars in the often unspeakably great sitcom 30 Rock. Other times, it's the I-know-what's-best-for-you Tina Fey, the one who ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at The Onion A.V. Club
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.20 out of 4 stars for Onion AV Club (Keith Phipps) Onion AV Club (Keith Phipps)
Baby Mama doesn't have a plot so much as a series of contrivances that play out completely as expected. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Onion AV Club (Keith Phipps)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.20 out of 4 stars for Reeling Reviews (Laura Clifford) Reeling Reviews (Laura Clifford)
We wanted Cheerios and got strained peas. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Reeling Reviews (Laura Clifford)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.20 out of 4 stars for Film Blather (Eugene Novikov) Film Blather (Eugene Novikov)
Every time the movie feels like it's about to cross over into the realm of the genuinely inspired, something or someone slams on the brakes. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Film Blather (Eugene Novikov)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.20 out of 4 stars for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker) Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
Writer/director Michael McCullers... pacing is poor and he doesn't know how to showcase the small-screen chemistry of Fey and Poehler on the big screen. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for
So many potential Gene Shalit-style zingers, so little shame. Do I simply declare Baby Mama to be infertile? Is it too lame to suggest that McCullers, a former SNL writer making his first feature, ought to have considered hiring a surrogate director? âI ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Christianity Today (Frederica Mathewes-Green) Christianity Today (Frederica Mathewes-Green)
I've sat through enough laugh-less comedies to be grateful when a movie entertains me, even temporarily%u2014but no one's going to call this film a classic. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Christianity Today (Frederica Mathewes-Green)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for ShowBizCafe.com (Mack Chico) ShowBizCafe.com (Mack Chico)
Tina Fey, la protagonista de la nueva película âBaby Mamaâ, es mayormente conocida por sus segmentos de noticia en el popular programa de comedia âSaturday Night Liveâ (SNL) y más reciente, en el programa â30 Rockâ. Ella es considerada por m ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at ShowBizCafe.com (Mack Chico)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Miami Herald (Connie Ogle) Miami Herald (Connie Ogle)
Baby Mama is just amusing enough to provoke a few chuckles and just short enough to keep you from glancing at your watch. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Miami Herald (Connie Ogle)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Parent Previews Parent Previews
My husband likes Cat Stevens' melodies. Me? Not so much. Yet our different musical taste is hardly a deal-breaker in our marriage. However, an opposing opinion on a single song is one of the silly factors that interfere with a relationship in this story. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Parent Previews
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Film Threat (Pete Vonder Haar) Film Threat (Pete Vonder Haar)
Even when we learn the film's somewhat less than astounding twist about midway through, the movie's happy outcome is never really in doubt. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Film Threat (Pete Vonder Haar)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips) Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
Tina Fey enjoys the career every sharp-witted writer-performer in America, female or male, dreams of having. Sheâs a paragon of nerd-babe wit and wisdom, sharp-edged but with an appealing undercurrent of reticence. (Part of her always seems to want to ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle) San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
It's a movie that deals in emotion and attempts to pass counterfeit goods. There's nothing there... . And yet by the deprived standards of the modern romantic comedy, one would have to say, well, it's not bad. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Just Press Play Just Press Play
In Baby Mama, former Weekend Updaters Tina Fey and Amy Poehler re-team as a strong comic duo that rely on their perfectly honed and balanced chemistryâwith Fey as the straight-lace and Poehler as the unstable oneâto save a weak story that runs every ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Just Press Play
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt) St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt)
"Baby Mama" squanders time on a love match between Tina Fey and Greg Kinnear â a match that doesn't generate enough sparks to light a votive candle â when the movie's more interesting "romance" is between Fey and Amy Poehler. No, there's no lesbian an ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for The Hollywood Reporter The Hollywood Reporter
Not quite a bouncing bundle of joy but still serves up plenty of kicky comedy. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at The Hollywood Reporter
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for ReelViews (James Berardinelli) ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Associated Press (Christy Lemire) Associated Press (Christy Lemire)
Of course, Fey and Poehler are front and center. Watching them, you have the sense that, together, they're willing to go to any length for a great laugh â you just wish they'd been pushed into more challenging territory. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Associated Press (Christy Lemire)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for MSNBC (Alonso Duralde) MSNBC (Alonso Duralde)
Things get soft where they should be sharp and cozy instead of crazy. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at MSNBC (Alonso Duralde)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler) Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)
Most of the time Baby Mama relies on the string-pulling of sitcom television. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Time Out New York (Melissa Anderson) Time Out New York (Melissa Anderson)
As a recent Vanity Fair cover had to remind us, women are funnyânever mind that this is the same magazine that also published Christopher Hitchensâs crazy screed to the contrary. Ladies bring the laughs, and none more so than Tina Fey, who seems our o ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Time Out New York (Melissa Anderson)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips) Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
Every moment of this project feels beat-driven, focus-grouped and designed to package Fey as a viable movie star with great pins (as one character takes pains to note) to go with the breasts (ditto). This isn't writing, it's advertising. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton) Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton)
Unrolls like a perfect storm of focus-grouped situations and joke-writing by committee. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman) TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)
There are a handful of solid laughs, but there are more than a few duds in the mix. One suspects that had Tina Fey penned the film herself, it wouldn't have been half as conventional and plodding. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Washington Post (Ann Hornaday) Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)
Audiences alive to the modest charms of its take on female friendship will be rewarded with at least a few quiet chuckles. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Preview Family Movie Review Preview Family Movie Review
Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, sheâs finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Preview Family Movie Review
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Newsday (John Anderson) Newsday (John Anderson)
What may be the first real outsourcing comedy, Baby Mama is like a pacifier: floppy, nourishment-free and may even keep your teeth from growing in straight. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Newsday (John Anderson)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Variety Variety
A tailor-made girls' night out movie, "Baby Mama" is a tidily wrapped package the contents of which you can easily guess before opening it. Bigscreen teaming of longtime "Saturday Night Live" cohorts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, as two women brought ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Variety
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.80 out of 4 stars for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz) Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Predictable, unimaginative and unfunny. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.80 out of 4 stars for Detroit News (Tom Long) Detroit News (Tom Long)
It's not that Baby Mama is an outright bad movie. It's just so thoroughly typical, a one-note, odd-couple, laff-lite film featuring two Saturday Night Live veterans that reminds you of so many other dashed-together SNL vet films. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Detroit News (Tom Long)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.80 out of 4 stars for Oregonian (M.E. Russell) Oregonian (M.E. Russell)
It's not horrible, but it's droopy, and it left me craving 30 Rock, with its vastly superior skewering of the privileged and self-involved. Fey should stick to writing her own material. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Oregonian (M.E. Russell)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.80 out of 4 stars for Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow) Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
By the time it reaches its supposedly crowd-pleasing finale, Baby Mama may have self-respecting comedy fans (and even Tina Fey fans) crying uncle. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.80 out of 4 stars for Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith) Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith)
Not unlike Similac, the script is a second-rate stand-in for the real thing. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.75 out of 4 stars for Jam! Movies Jam! Movies
What gives? How did Tina Fey's first gig headlining a movie amount to little more than Tommy Boy with birth canals? How did a comedy about the apparently zany world of surrogate motherhood come into the world as little more than a predictable assemblage ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Jam! Movies
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for Austin Chronicle (Josh Rosenblatt) Austin Chronicle (Josh Rosenblatt)
Just like it is in the world of SNL, the choice gets made time and again to aim not for the high road but for the great, big, fat, juicy, unchallenging, uncontroversial middle ground, where everybodys laughing but nothing is all that funny. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Austin Chronicle (Josh Rosenblatt)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for Reno News and Review (Bob Grimm) Reno News and Review (Bob Grimm)
A waste of talent. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Reno News and Review (Bob Grimm)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for The Critical Critics The Critical Critics
...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at The Critical Critics
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius) eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for Austin Chronicle (Josh Rosenblatt) Austin Chronicle (Josh Rosenblatt)
One of these days the talents of Tina Fey will become apparent to me and Iâll be able to look back at her time on Saturday Night Live, her current hit sitcom 30 Rock, and Baby Mama and see the comic genius everyone else apparently already sees. Until ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Austin Chronicle (Josh Rosenblatt)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius) eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
Fey and Poehler, you're better than this material, and you know it. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for Jam! Movies (Kevin Williamson) Jam! Movies (Kevin Williamson)
What's the difference between a vasectomy and Baby Mama? Baby Mama only lasts 93 minutes. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Jam! Movies (Kevin Williamson)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for New Yorker (Anthony Lane) New Yorker (Anthony Lane)
With many film stars jumping back into televisionâand who can blame them, since that is where you find the better scripts these daysâit is heartening to see someone make the leap in the other direction. Tina Fey, currently of â30 Rock,â throws her ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at New Yorker (Anthony Lane)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for Salon (Stephanie Zacharek) Salon (Stephanie Zacharek)
Unlike so many comedy directors, McCullers doesn't have any trouble coming up with good gags for his second bananas. In fact, the best bits in "Baby Mama" come from its numerous guest players, like Steve Martin, as Kate's aggressively tranquil, ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Salon (Stephanie Zacharek)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for Slant Magazine (Nick Schager) Slant Magazine (Nick Schager)
That the film also features SNL's Amy Poehler makes the proceedings' crushing mediocrity that much more frustrating. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Slant Magazine (Nick Schager)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for Slate (Dana Stevens) Slate (Dana Stevens)
Baby Mama (Universal) is the most disappointing movie of the year so farâwhich, granted, isn't saying a lot in mid-April. It's not as if I walked into the screening room all jazzed about the potential brilliance of Jumper or Street Kings or Drillbit ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Slate (Dana Stevens)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for Screen International Screen International
A smart comedy for adults, Baby Mama is a consistently funny pleasure, filled with charismatic performances and a nicely understated emotional element. Though superficially an Odd Couple-style look at two mismatched women â one hired to carry the other' ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Screen International
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson) Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)
Look: Babies are great. Sex is great. Messy and ridiculous and laughable -- babies and sex -- but great. So why donât we get movies like that, that acknowledge the deeply weird wonderfulness of all this chaotic and confusing and hilarious life stuff? Wh ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)
Baby Mama (2008) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for Movies 101 (Robert Glatzer) Movies 101 (Robert Glatzer)
What's wrong with "Baby Mama" is that it reads like an extended version of a Saturday Night Live sketch, except that it's an hour and a half long. ...read the complete Baby Mama movie review at Movies 101 (Robert Glatzer)
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