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Happy Anniversary.

I got a chance to see "Baby Mama", a comedy about a hee-lariously mismatched duo of women brought together by a surrogacy agency.

It was entertaining enough. Tina Fey plays the hard working Philadelphia career woman VP of a Whole Food-ish supermarket chain, Kate Holbrook, who at 37 has baby fever. Amy Poehler is trashy Amy Ostrowski, a surrogate with a mouth breather husband, who drinks a lot of Dr. Pepper and yells every other sentence. After a meeting at Kate's impossibly chic Philly apartment, where Angie and her husband act like fishes out of water, the duo decide to work together to bring a baby into the world. HILARITY ENSUES.

But seriously, it was exactly what I expected it to be. Fey didn't write the movie, but if she had, it would have been so much funnier, I'm sure. Romany Malco was once again sadly but hilariously typecast as the street smart, smooth talking brother with a heart of gold, much like his character in 40 Year Old Virgin, Jay. The chemistry between Fey and Poehler is rock solid and totally believable, which helped the film immensely, especially in parts where the connection between Greg Kinnear's love interest character and Fey isn't really believable. I also laughed at the spoofs on the new agey, natural childbirth movement that is becoming big in this country. But the ending wraps up a bit too neatly and happily ever after for a film starring two women who are so adept at offbeat and black humor.

Bottom line: I'll probably watch it again when it comes out on DVD, but it wasn't one of my favorites. A halfway decent watch, but very much like a not so funny 90 minute episode of 30 Rock.

By the way, when searching Google images for "Baby Mama" to find a picture of the movie poster to put with this (because IMDB doesn't allow pictures to be saved from the site), a million pictures of super-trashy looking women and ugly children come up. Niiiiiiiice.