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Baby Mama adheres fairly closely to the conventions of the studio comedy, although it's never actually predictable, probably because the characters and subject matter are so novel.

-Carina ChocanoFull Review

'Baby Mama' Makes Do-Do

-Joe BaltakeFull Review

Although the big picture itself gets mushy, the small moments, especially involving Fey, are sharp.

-Lisa SchwarzbaumFull Review

Enough laughs for me to recommend.

-Richard Roeper

It's clumsy, not cute, an amateur show that's eager to amuse by any means.

-Joe MorgensternFull Review

Yes, the film doesn't offer many surprises and grows soft and predictable by its conclusion. But it does avoid the sappy sentimentality of the genre. The movie -- and its lead actresses -- charms us more than we might expect.

-Claudia PuigFull Review

I'm not making claims that Baby Mama transcends the format's routine progressions -- opposites not only attract, they learn from each other -- only that, within these conventions, the movie is smart, funny and beguiling.

-Richard CorlissFull Review

Baby Mama ultimately gives in to sweetness, but it has some deliciously tart moments along the way.

-Moira MacDonaldFull Review

It's a movie that deals in emotion and attempts to pass counterfeit goods. There's nothing there... . And yet by the deprived standards of the modern romantic comedy, one would have to say, well, it's not bad.

-Mick LaSalleFull Review

Baby Mama is formulaic, but this broad odd-couple girl comedy has the advantage of knowing what it is.

-David AnsenFull Review

In the end, despite some complications, it successfully gives birth to a very happy event: The arrival of Tina Fey, movie star.

-Stephen WhittyFull Review

In a pleasing contrast to Fey's sharpness, Poehler keeps her performance unpredictable and fuzzy. In this just-add-water comedy, a very funny movie star is born.

-Joe NeumaierFull Review

Neither Tina Fey nor Amy Poehler, former Saturday Night Live colleagues, has a compelling big-screen presence. And as a team they're no Martin and Lewis. Still, their lightweight double act passes the time agreeably.

-Colin CovertFull Review

Baby Mama is just amusing enough to provoke a few chuckles and just short enough to keep you from glancing at your watch.

-Connie OgleFull Review

The funny, felicitous Baby Mama exploits every stage of pregnancy except the first. No hanky-panky to bump this plot in motion.

-Amy BiancolliFull Review

Baby Mama offers ample evidence that Fey and Poehler are more than ready for prime-time screen gigs. Let's hope they team again for a comedy that delivers all that it promises.

-Peter HowellFull Review

It's not that Baby Mama is an outright bad movie. It's just so thoroughly typical, a one-note, odd-couple, laff-lite film featuring two Saturday Night Live veterans that reminds you of so many other dashed-together SNL vet films.

-Tom LongFull Review

The appealing Fey and nutty Poehler make sure Baby Mama dramas comes leavened with laughs.

-Lisa KennedyFull Review

A really funny, surprisingly smart and genuinely sweet comedy.

-Tom MaurstadFull Review

The pregnancy-movie craze shows no signs of abating, but not all bellies are created equal. Baby Mama is a disservice to Tina Fey, who is at her best playing characters who are whip-smart.

-Peter RainerFull Review

One of the funniest movies to be released so far this year.

-Bill ZweckerFull Review

The movie was written and directed by a man, Michael McCullers. But it cuts out the obligatory middleman and lets two women make us laugh, often very hard.

-Wesley MorrisFull Review

This new comedy is what you could call a surrogate comedy with familiar Saturday Night Live jokes implanted in a generic Baby Boom script.

-Liam LaceyFull Review

The new comedy Baby Mama never comes fully to term, as it were.

-Manohla Dargis

The script favors routine Odd Couple gags over the sort of comic contemplation of motherhood a writer like Fey might have brought to the subject.

-J. R. JonesFull Review

Every moment of this project feels beat-driven, focus-grouped and designed to package Fey as a viable movie star with great pins (as one character takes pains to note) to go with the breasts (ditto). This isn't writing, it's advertising.

-Michael PhillipsFull Review

[Writer/director] McCullers takes all the loose plot strands and ties them in a neat knot and cuts it, as an obstetrician might a newborn's umbilicus. Still, I left with a smile.

-Carrie RickeyFull Review

There are a couple of minor surprises and enough laughs and truisms floating around the supporting cast to make this an easy comedy to watch.

-Roger MooreFull Review

Audiences alive to the modest charms of its take on female friendship will be rewarded with at least a few quiet chuckles.

-Ann HornadayFull Review


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