Thanks to HBO, I've been able to watch flicks I've missed in the past couple of years due to work, social life or simple indifference. The other night I got to watch Baby Mama, starring Amy Pohler and Tina Fey. 
I like Tina Fey and Amy Pohler. I enjoy watching them on SNL when they were still cast members. I perticularly like Ms. Fey, she's obviously very smart. She's the first female head writer for SNL, she writes and stars in the critically acclaimed 30 Rock alongside Alec Baldwin. She's can be a poster girl for the feminist movement. She's strong, beautiful and sexy.
If that's the case, her roles on screen might be a commentary on how society views strong women. In 30 Rock, she's made fun of by her coworkers,she's made to look sad and ridiculous. In Baby Mama, her character Angie, is at the top of her game: she's vice-president, she lives in an expensive apartment and, gasp!, she wants to have a baby on her own, without a husband. And here, once more, she's made to look lonely until she finds a man. But that's another discussion meant for another blog entry.
In Baby Mama, Tina Fey is her old awkwardly funny, witty self. And when paired up with Pohler, comedy ensues. However, like your typical SNL sketch some scenes fall flat and feel forced while others are comedy gem like that sequence where Pohler is getting fertilized.
What's refreshing about this flick is that it's a comedy targeted at women that's not a romantic comedy. It's not very often that that happens.
Baby Mama has its moments, but it's not enough, not even with Fey in it, to drive me to watch it again.
I give this movie a C+
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