Movie Review | 'Baby Mama': Learning on the Job About Birthing Babies

Baby Mama Will Tell Us What To Think About Women [Gender Studies]
Gawker — ... The New York Times' Manohla Dargis would like to remind you that this film is about women: "Basically she's Rhoda with thinner thighs, which I guess means that she's Mary Richards. But this being 2008 and not the women's-liberated 1970s, it isn't enough for Kate to be a swinging single: she wants a baby and she wants it now. Enter Angie Ostrowiski (Ms. Poehler). At 36 Ms. Poehler is at least 10 years too old for the role, as the softly focused close-ups suggest, but she's a pip." A pip is what my mom calls old ladies who dance or say dirty words or know what the ...

Baby Mama Is Fertile Ground For Mixed Feelings From Reviewers [Critical Mass]
Jezebel — ... minute, then pursues it with type-A zeal; the guy who flees a first date when babies are mentioned; the down-to-earth potential boyfriend (Greg Kinnear) who, by his very existence, reminds the overly ambitious heroine of what really matters in life. Look, I have fond enough memories of Diane Keaton and Sam Shepard in Baby Boom, but that was more than 20 years ago. Have our ideas about working, parenting, and the formation of alternative families really changed so little since 1987? New York Times : The film never comes fully to term, as it were: the visual style is sitcom ...

Baby Mama (2008)
Oh No They Didn't! — ... by Michael McCullers; director of photography, Daryn Okada; edited by Bruce Green; music by Jeff Richmond; production designer, Jess Gonchor; produced by Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn; released by Universal Pictures. Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes. WITH: Tina Fey (Kate), Amy Poehler (Angie), Greg Kinnear (Rob), Dax Shepard (Carl), Romany Malco (Oscar), Steve Martin (Barry), Maura Tierney (Caroline), Holland Taylor (Rose) and Sigourney Weaver (Chaffee Bicknell). cource:http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/movies/25baby.html