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Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: Baby Mama is hilarious. I could quote its awesome one-liners out of context for diminishing returns. It's also smart. The jokes are cribbed from the anxiety list of anyone who's spent too much time reading the New York Times Style section. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Every moment of this project feels beat-driven, focus-grouped and designed to package Fey as a viable movie star with great pins (as one character takes pains to note) to go with the breasts (ditto). This isn't writing, it's advertising. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The script favors routine Odd Couple gags over the sort of comic contemplation of motherhood a writer like Fey might have brought to the subject. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: It's clumsy, not cute, an amateur show that's eager to amuse by any means. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Baby Mama ultimately gives in to sweetness, but it has some deliciously tart moments along the way. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: Baby Mama doesn't have a plot so much as a series of contrivances that play out completely as expected. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: The humor outweighs the holes in the story, Fey and Poehler look to be a comedy team built to last -- let's hope so -- and those who find Judd Apatow's comedies lacking in decent female roles have found their film. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The movie was written and directed by a man, Michael McCullers. But it cuts out the obligatory middleman and lets two women make us laugh, often very hard. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Baby Mama adheres fairly closely to the conventions of the studio comedy, although it's never actually predictable, probably because the characters and subject matter are so novel. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: The funny, felicitous Baby Mama exploits every stage of pregnancy except the first. No hanky-panky to bump this plot in motion. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The pregnancy-movie craze shows no signs of abating, but not all bellies are created equal. Baby Mama is a disservice to Tina Fey, who is at her best playing characters who are whip-smart. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: The appealing Fey and nutty Poehler make sure Baby Mama dramas comes leavened with laughs. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: It's not that Baby Mama is an outright bad movie. It's just so thoroughly typical, a one-note, odd-couple, laff-lite film featuring two Saturday Night Live veterans that reminds you of so many other dashed-together SNL vet films. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Although the big picture itself gets mushy, the small moments, especially involving Fey, are sharp. Read more
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: A really funny, surprisingly smart and genuinely sweet comedy. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Baby Mama is just amusing enough to provoke a few chuckles and just short enough to keep you from glancing at your watch. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: What may be the first real outsourcing comedy, Baby Mama is like a pacifier: floppy, nourishment-free and may even keep your teeth from growing in straight. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: Baby Mama is formulaic, but this broad odd-couple girl comedy has the advantage of knowing what it is. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: There are gags and scraps of action that give the movie fits of buoyancy, and these tend to come not so much from the younger, eager performers as from the old hands. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: In the end, despite some complications, it successfully gives birth to a very happy event: The arrival of Tina Fey, movie star. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: In a pleasing contrast to Fey's sharpness, Poehler keeps her performance unpredictable and fuzzy. In this just-add-water comedy, a very funny movie star is born. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: With virtually nothing in the way of visual or physical comedy, there are more chuckles here than belly laughs, and most of them are delivered by the supporting cast. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: There are a couple of minor surprises and enough laughs and truisms floating around the supporting cast to make this an easy comedy to watch. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: [Writer/director] McCullers takes all the loose plot strands and ties them in a neat knot and cuts it, as an obstetrician might a newborn's umbilicus. Still, I left with a smile. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: 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. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Even if the picture is softer than it needs to be, it still resists devolving into something warm and squishy. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It's a movie that deals in emotion and attempts to pass counterfeit goods. There's nothing there... . And yet by the deprived standards of the modern romantic comedy, one would have to say, well, it's not bad. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Neither Tina Fey nor Amy Poehler, former Saturday Night Live colleagues, has a compelling big-screen presence. And as a team they're no Martin and Lewis. Still, their lightweight double act passes the time agreeably. Read more
Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times: One of the funniest movies to be released so far this year. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: This new comedy is what you could call a surrogate comedy with familiar Saturday Night Live jokes implanted in a generic Baby Boom script. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Baby Mama offers ample evidence that Fey and Poehler are more than ready for prime-time screen gigs. Let's hope they team again for a comedy that delivers all that it promises. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: I'm not making claims that Baby Mama transcends the format's routine progressions -- opposites not only attract, they learn from each other -- only that, within these conventions, the movie is smart, funny and beguiling. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Yes, the film doesn't offer many surprises and grows soft and predictable by its conclusion. But it does avoid the sappy sentimentality of the genre. The movie -- and its lead actresses -- charms us more than we might expect. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: A tailor-made girls' night out movie, Baby Mama is a tidily wrapped package the contents of which you can easily guess before opening it. Read more
Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice: A Saturday Night Live sketch stretched a good hour past its breaking point of no return. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Audiences alive to the modest charms of its take on female friendship will be rewarded with at least a few quiet chuckles. Read more