Being a fan of Tina Fey from Mean Girls and 30 Rock, I was interested to see how she copes with material she hasn’t written in the movie Baby Mama. In the film Fey plays Kate, a career woman with no partner who desperately wants a child, which leads her to a surrogate agency and Amy Poehler’s white trash Angie, who Kate ends up paying to carry her child. 
It’s quite a slight movie and some of the twists are turns are fairly obvious, yet it works well due to the great cast and the often hilarious script. Fey plays it pretty straight, and most of the laughs come from Poehler, someone I wasn’t familiar with before this film. There’s some excellent support from Greg Kinnear as the smoothie-store owner Fey eventually falls for, and great comic work from Sigourney Weaver as the owner of the surrogacy agency – I wish she would do more comedy, like the brilliant Galaxy Quest. One of the film’s highlights is an uncredited turn from Steve Martin as Kate’s pony-tailed hippyesque boss. He steals every scene he’s in and had me in stitches. At one point he rewards Kate with 5 minutes of direct eye contact. Priceless. It’s the cast that lifts this comedy above average and the strong female characters are refreshing.
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