Baby Mama, written and directed by Michael McCullers - 7 out of 10

Baby Mama, written and directed by Michael McCullers
7 out of 10


The talent and skills of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are hard to equal.
It is therefore hard to understand the fact that this film - and others - fail to exhilarate.

Tina Fey plays Kate, a successful senior executive, promoted Vice President at one point, that has to work with the crazy CEO Barry aka Steve Martin.
Barry is the paradigm of the arrogant, out of touch, silly business leader - a version of Trump - who talks emphatically about his swimming with the Dolphins and having an epiphany, for he is so great and blessed...a smaller replica of the Big One Who Colluded with the Russians, no matter how much he denies it.

In one scene, this preposterous smaller Trump sits on the table and invites Kate to join him.
She rather has to, although she protests that she is wearing a dress and that is inappropriate and furthermore awkward, almost  impossible to accommodate in that stupid asana.

Her professional life is a success, for she manages this fool even when he seems to be about to embark on a disaster...he wants a new, huge shop and he desires it to be in the form of a...shell.
The heroine is quick to interpret this and say he means the spirit, not the actual design.

It is the private life that is the main challenge.
Kate wants a baby.

Since she is infertile, she would pay to the tune of one hundred thousand dollars to have a surrogate mother help her have a child.
Baby Mama is Amy Poehler aka Angie.

If the Vice President is serious, educated, sophisticated - unlike Trump's man, who would not sit with an unchaperoned woman - the Baby Mama seems too simple even to be funny.
Angie has no notion of eating healthy food, intends to smoke while pregnant.

Actually, this is e most serious trouble with her.
For she appears to have lied about her state.

Prompted by her lover, she says she is pregnant but thinks she is not.
Later, it will seem that there is a baby, although it is more complicated.

In short, you may laugh in some instances, but this is not Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, which you should see instead, if you have n't already.