"Baby Mama" is family fun ... if you’re the Spears family

A 30-something Juno, it’s not.

     Kate Holbrook (30 Rock’s Tina Fey) is an über-successful executive of an organic food big-box store who needs just one thing to complete her: a baby.
     After not having much luck with either the traditional (love and marriage) or alternative (anonymous donor) methods, she turns to a surrogate service who’s $100,000 fee, apparently, doesn’t buy much screening but does engage the “host” services of Angie Ostrowiski (SNL’s Amy Poehler).
     From there, Baby Mama is basically She’s Having a Baby without Kevin Bacon or any charm whatsoever.
     The film has a few LOL moments (Sigourney Weaver making a note when Fey asks, “You don’t use poor underpaid women in third worlds, do you?” and Poehler, after Fey tells her that she's a corporate vice president, saying “So, you take over if the president is shot?”) but mostly it is filled with missed opportunity.
     As a doorman, Romany Malco is totally wasted and could have been a “daddy candidate.” Greg Kinnear is the rudder that keeps the film on course and gives you someone to care about, but he plays a stock Mark Harmon-ish “decent guy” character without much room to shine; and Steve Martin’s comically self-important executive: it’s all right, but we’ve seen it before as Seinfeld’s J. Peterman.
     Baby Mama is a 96-minute Saturday Night Live skit, and not one of the good ones, either. One of those that they put on after the musical guest’s second song.

1 and ½ Honks