Baby Mama

Director: Michael McCullers
Year Released: 2008
Rating: 1.5

Prim businesswoman Tina Fey, unable to conceive (because of a T-shaped uterus), hires fertile but white-trash surrogate (Amy Poehler) to house her eggs - they live together, they fight, it has a happy ending. The two ladies are best known for being liberals from Saturday Night Live, but here they go making a movie about conservative-spun "family values" and perpetuating the lie that the lower class and upper class can really cohabitate (plus reinforcing the fact that the wealthy have less children than the lower-class). Politics aside, the two have chemistry together - and can be quite funny off-the-cuff, though this is populist, PG-13 fare, safe for Churchy-types and women of all ages. While there are moments when I think I might want to infect the world with a Little Matt one day - brace yourselves - the idea of drool and fingerprints all over my precious electronic equipment makes me rethink the prospect, and I can always take shelter behind the super-pessimistic Schopenhauerian antinatalist assertion that dragging some new form of life into a mostly awful world is morally wrong and best avoided. (Yes, I am a fun date.)