I Spoke Too Soon

Baby Mama is bad. Sure, Tina Fey is cute and lovable in the movie, but jeez, this movie is LAME. Beyond just being an average romantic comedy, re-using the same old boring jokes and structure, the humor is remarkably un-daring. Whereas in 30 Rock, the humor is wacky and fast and daring...the humor here is safe and plain and boring. Steve Martin is the funniest part of the movie playing a hippy dippy Richard Branson type running a Whole Foods chain. But this humor is caricature and one-note and is funny mostly because it relieves us from the plain-jane nature of the storytelling. This is basically an average film festival movie script with big stars instead of C and D list actors.

I hate movies where the preview takes all the good jokes and mashes them together - Baby Mama is an example of this.

A revealing ancedote: there is a preview for the new Austin Kuchter and Cameron Diaz movie and one of the jokes is Austin can't get into the bathroom and decides to pee in the sink. They same EXACT joke is in Baby Mama when Tina baby-proofs the house and Amy P decides to pee in the sink. Really? The same exact joke in two movies. Lame, lame, lame.