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(1 - 23) of 23 OFCS Rating: 48% Rotten Page   1   1/5 "a whiny, juvenile mess"   Filmcritic.com   Bill Gibron B "It's not a perfect film by any means, but as a debutante ball for Fey and Poehler as big screen leading ladies, it's a dream."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf B+ "Surrogate motherhood is the comic topic of the day, and this is one funny chick flick that won't rankle male members of the audience."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "If he's not precisely magical, Oscar the doorman does function as wise advisor for white women who should know better."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1.5/4 "...an exceedingly familiar premise that's used to almost extraordinarily innocuous effect..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2/4 "There are a handful of solid laughs, but there are more than a few duds in the mix. One suspects that had Tina Fey penned the film herself, it wouldn't have been half as conventional and plodding."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman B "Baby Mama does not represent the best of either woman's talent, but it'll do for now."   Film.com   Eric D. Snider C+ "Every time the movie feels like it's about to cross over into the realm of the genuinely inspired, something or someone slams on the brakes."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 3/5 "A comedy boasting fetching performances by Saturday Night Live stars Tina Fey and Amy Poehler."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "There's nothing terribly wrong with Baby Mama but it's probably better suited for viewing on television, where many of the participants cut their teeth. This is small screen stuff masquerading as something bigger."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "Paper-thin comedy - in which Tina Fey's OCD career woman hires Amy Poehler's ADD surrogate mother - is worth seeing only for its seriously talented comedic leads."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito A- "I can't help but feel some sort of relief after the lukewarm trailers promised The Brothers Solomon with chicks."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr C+ "We wanted Cheerios and got strained peas."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "Even on its own sorry terms, Baby Mama is ludicrous, falling back on toilet humor because it has nothing else to offer."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "The comedy teams longtime "Saturday Night Live" vets Tina Fey and Amy Poehler - two of the funniest individuals on the planet, in my opinion - for a comedy that distinctly exploits their synergistic comic sensibilities."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ ""Baby Mama" is not just smart, warm, funny, and romantic, it is an especially welcome dose of XX chromosome humor in an Apatow-flooded XY era."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 1.5/4 "That the film also features SNL's Amy Poehler makes the proceedings' crushing mediocrity that much more frustrating."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2.5/5 "Even when we learn the film's somewhat less than astounding twist about midway through, the movie's happy outcome is never really in doubt."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar C+ "Writer/director Michael McCullers... pacing is poor and he doesn't know how to showcase the small-screen chemistry of Fey and Poehler on the big screen."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 3/4 "The year's first film that kept me laughing from end to end with intelligent and perceptive punch lines that don't aim for the broad side of a fraternity house."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell "Even if the picture is softer than it needs to be, it still resists devolving into something warm and squishy."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 7/10 "It's wry and satirical but just not as hip as I was hoping. Perhaps I expected too much from two of SNL's funniest comediennes."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 5/10 "Unrolls like a perfect storm of focus-grouped situations and joke-writing by committee."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 23) of 23 OFCS Rating: 48% Rotten Page   1