Baby Mama

Learning on the Job About Birthing Babies

In the new comedy “Baby Mama”Tina Fey plays a 37-year-old single career woman who, desperate for a baby, hires a womb of her own in the dizzy, slap-happy form of Amy Poehler. The film never comes fully to term, as it were: the visual style is sitcom functional, and even the zippiest jokes fall flat because of poor timing. But, much like the prickly, talented Ms. Fey, it pulls you in with a provocative and, at least in current American movies, unusual mix of female intelligence, awkwardness and chilled-to-the-bone mean. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (5010 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 25 aprile 2008