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If Tina Fey was my BABY MAMA I'd be just as happy as our spy who saw a test screening of her new movie!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Ah, Tina Fey... le purrrrr...
This flick sounds like it's crying out to be double-billed with Jason Reitman's JUNO. Our returning spy Darth Noodle checks out Tina Fey's newest comedy really early. Darth loved it, but do keep in mind that it is early days yet. Looking forward to this one.
hi quint,
darth noodle here. my wife and i just came from a preview screening of baby mama here in manhattan at some french institute alliance place i've never heard of before. the movie theatre is a nice, clean place. they do not allow, nor do they serve any refreshments whatsoever, so that leads to an aura of uber cleanliness. the seats have straight backs that do not recline at all, so needless to say, its a bit uncomfortable and stuffy.
even though the ambiance of the place sucks, i am happy to report that the movie itself is very funny. the basic premise is that tina fey plays tina fey...a career woman who is aging and wants to have a baby. she is told by the pc guy that she cannot have a baby (maybe if the mac guy played the doctor he would have given her good news, or knocked her up himself) so she decides to use a surrgate. amy poehler plays the white trash surrogate mother and dax shepard is her common law husband. there is some scheming and cheating and although things don't work out the way everyone wanted, everything does work out in the end. as characters are introduced and storylines begin, it is predictable how things will develop and resolve themselves. that is not a knock against the movie.
i did not mind the predicatbility because the performances across the board were funny. although it is tina fey's movie, amy poehler steals every scene she is in. seeing her using the sink was definitely the funniest moment in the movie, not just b/c the premise was funny but b/c her look totally sold it. poehler plays white trash very well, but at the same time you see the vulnerable person in there that wants to do the right thing and make herself and her situation better. no one here is a caricature with the exception of steve martin. he plays a new age ceo who has the secret to success and passes this morsel of information onto poehler when she reads his aura. I liked almost all of martin's scenes except for the 5 minutes of uninterrupted eye contact between him and tina. it goes on a little too long and/or is totally unnecessary.
oh yeah, greg kinnear is in it. that's all i have to say about him and his career.
overall, baby mama will definitely make you laugh despite its predicatbility.
always yours, always wet and limp,
darth noodle
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Probably not because I am going to actually say something here. I am sick of Tina Fey. Her "im not sexy but I really am" schtick is old.
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She over acts in everything. It has gotten really bad in the past couple seasons. I hope Fey keeps giving her roles so she will leave the show. She doesn't deserve to be on the same stage as Wiig or Hader.
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She was great when she first started on Weekend Update - like, amazing. Then during the Fey & Poehler 2-season stint she basically sucked and phoned it in. Then I thought 30 Rock was gonna suck but she became hot and funny again. Mean Girls was solid, so hopefully this one will be too.
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Needs my cock in her ass.
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The cast was fantastic. Fey and Poehler work so well off each other. Steve Martin made me die with laughter every time he was on screen. Kinnear was his usual likable self, playing a guy far less smarmy than he usually plays. Even Dax Shepherd got some laughs out of me. I had only ever liked him in Zathura but this was a good role for him. Weaver also gets some big laughs. The film isn't flawless. I'd say 3 out of 10 lines fall flat. But 7 out of 10 isn't a bad average. My favorites: "Now that I've experienced a pagan birth, I think it would feel weird to NOT eat the placenta." and "I found this shell... while running barefoot... through the Toronto airport." There's a big twist in the middle of the film. So big that I almost thought I wasn't going to like the rest of the film because I thought it was already working pretty well. But they bounced back and made it work. The ending you see coming from miles away but you don't care. The cast is charming and I enjoyed myself throughout. I recommend it.
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She's awesome. She was great on Upright Citizens Brigade and Wet Hot American Summer and I think she's awesome on SNL. Lest we forget Molly Shannon, Cherri Oteri, and Ana Gasteyer, the three WORST and UNFUNNIEST female cast members the show ever had. I don't know how those 3 get to be remembered as being so great. I think Amy Poehler is better than Mya Rudolph as well, though I think Mya's pretty awesome too. I understand that you can't convince someone that a certain kind of comedy is funny, but I'm an SNL lifer and I think she rules.
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seems like we go to a lot of the same screenings. we should get together and compare notes. sounds kind of gay, but it would be nice to meet up w/ another "spy".
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You're insanely stupid. Amy Poehler is the funniest female cast member ever on the show. She makes even weak material better simply because she's naturally a funny person. Not only that she's smoking hot. That's a good combination. So shut it.
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Last season was one of the worst ever and she was in more sketches than anyone else. So, how can she be the best female ever when the show has had one of its worst stretches with her as the star. She is easily the worst Weekend Update host (even worse that Fallon). She does overact in almost everything she does. She is horrible at impersonating people (with the exception of Sharon Stone). Even some of the characters that she used to be funny as have gotten bad. She has been on the show seven years or so and she has probably less than 5 good characters. Wiig is far better than her. It's time for Poehler to leave.
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That's pretty impressive. She banged out her own version of "Juno" in just a few short weeks. How does she do it?
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Was that review composed on a cellphone keypad and sent in via text message? Wow. Is English Comp. still required (or even offered for that matter) in our public school system? My eyes started to cross about three sentences in, and I couldn't finish the article. I guess I'll wait until someone with a Shift Key and a grasp of the English language sends in a review.
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Yeah. I go to screenings here at least once a week. This past week it was three. I especially frequent the NY Audience screenings. Anyways, I'm not opposed to the idea of exchanging some ideas. I'm a little reticent to posting any kind of real contact information on a talkback though. So if you have some idea, (so long as it doesn't involve me standing in Union Square holding a white rose) then I'm open to it. And nice review by the way. I was considering writing one but got distracted upon getting home. Then yours got posted so quickly it hardly seems worth it. You said most of what I was thinking anyways. Oh well. I'm around. Let me know the score. Now time for bed.
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This plot just screams episodic sitcom television. Also, though I know in our day and age you aren't supposed to say this, but why do the needs of some "career woman" to have a baby, outweigh what is actually best for a child. Hey kid, I want a new thing in my life that will love me and make me feel complete, so here's whats going to happen, I'm going to have you, love you like crazy for 2 months while on maternity leave, though those last 2 weeks I will have to split time with my job, can't be away too long you know, and then its off to daycare for you my little munchkin. I may see you from time to time in between my inconsistant love life and my hilarious daily existance at work, but as you grow up cold shouldered and isolated, I will be able to better handle bad days at work because I have you to make ME feel better. Oh and I may be able to squeeze some time in at different points to wiggle a stuffed octopus in front of your face, as my way of offering you love and support. Sounds like a great deal, doesn't it?
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Remarkably annoying review. Looks like he posted it using text-messaging and couldn't be bothered to use caps, then his thumbs got tired and he couldn't spell out "because." Nothing in this review explained why we should bother going to see it. Do good performances" of predictable material make it worthwhile? I'm annoyed that I wasted time reading that review, and now I am even more annoyed that I was annoyed enough to waste more time posting how annoyed I am. DAMN YOU DARTH NOODLE!!!
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Did the bell ring and the reviewer had to get back class or something? Save it and finish it later Darth Whatever, I don't mind waiting for a full analysis. Jeez, even that Midol Girl dude or MiraJeff could write something that at least convinced me they actually saw the film.
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Needs my cock in her ass too. Along with Fey and Poehler.
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you should have just left it at your title heading...short and sweet and leave them wanting more is the way to go for humorous, insulting TB posts!!
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