by Thomas Ferguson

Baby mama drama has never been quite like this before. Saturday Night Live alum Tina Fey has taken the giant leap from the small screen to the big screen once again. In 2004, she had the commercial and critical hit Mean Girls. In her latest Baby Mama, she labored with a script that had its moments, but didn't deliver as much as it could.

Kate Holbrook (Fey) is a successful businesswoman in the prime of her life. She has everything, except the one thing she longs for most, a baby. Being that she has no husband or boyfriend, she takes the next step by going to a surrogate agency.

Headed by a severely fertile older woman (Sigourney Weaver), the agency hooks Kate up with Angie (Amy Poehler), an immature woman who just might have an alternative plan. As Kate accepts Angie into her life and her home, things become a bit more complicated. Kate begins dating Rob (Greg Kinnear), a local store owner and Angie's free loading husband Carl (Dax Shepard) enters the picture threatening to expose the truth behind her pregnacy.

I absolutely love Tina Fey. Her work on SNL was genius and Mean Girls is one of my favorite teen comedies.Baby Mama had great potential and had a pitch perfect trailer, but the movie was just alright. Sigourney Weaver, Steve Martin, and 40-Year-Old Virgin's Romany Malco were perfectly cast in secondary roles. 

Still, the movie just becomes so far-fetched by the end.  I'm still waiting for this year's Juno or Superbad. I'm basically looking for a comedy that makes me laugh from start to finish.  I haven't seen anything close to that this year. That being said, I think Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have amazing chemistry together. They play well off of each other. Although the script lagged in places, I can't say that I hated this movie.

Again, I find myself on the fence on yet another movie. I have been generous the past few weeks with both Stop- Loss and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I think I'll continue the generocity, but Hollywood needs to kick it in gear. We are heading into the summer season and there has only been a couple good movies so far this year.