She’s Having My Baby

This year’s unlikeliest movie star, Tina Fey (TV’s 30 Rock), stars in Baby Mama, a buddy comedy co-starring her fellow SNLer Amy Poehler.

Fey – seemingly everywhere these days, from her hit show to the covers of Entertainment Weekly and Marie Claire and Vanity Fair – breaks through playing Kate, a successful businesswoman in her mid-to-late-30s who really wants to have a baby.

When her doctor tells her he just doesn’t like her T-shaped uterus and has a million-to-one shot at getting pregnant, Kate decides to explore her options, including adoption (the wait is too long for a single woman) and surrogacy (it costs more than having someone killed, but hey…it’ll do!).

She ultimately is paired with South Philly working girl Angie (Poehler) who, after hearing her out, tells her, “Kate, I want you to put your baby inside me.”

But Type-A Kate’s well-though out strategy is turned upside down when needy Angie shows up at her doorstep with no place to live.

As their two rather different worlds collide, Kate and Angie will struggle their way to the finish line – hilarity ensues, natch – and learn that they share more similarities than differences.

I enjoyed Baby Mama very much because you just never see a buddy comedy starring two women – and this one stars not one but two of my all-time favorite funny ladies, so that was just swell.

The movie has a lot of heart, which is great, but it also has a no-holds barred sense of humor that keeps it from the Chick Flick storage box, you know.

And for that, this is one Baby Mama you needn’t try to avoid.

My Rating ***

Photo: Universal Pictures.