Friday’s Watch it or Whine: Baby Mama

Guess what I did today? With my mom? And no one else? And no one interrupted me, and the baby crying was not mine? I went to go see Baby Mama, (if you had not guessed that by the title, this may not be the blog for you. Try someone else).

Anyway, I thought we would switch up the Read it or Rant a little this week because the only thing I have read either involved talking animals on cardboard pages, or is a glossy magazine full of clothes I can’t afford, and would not fit even if I could. ( We get lots of magazines here, and do not pay for any of them. The MMIL gives us hers when she is done, and I get Marie Claire and Cookie for free because we steal other people’s coke points.)

We went to a matinee ( How do you spell that?!? Every way I try still has a red line under it!) and while it was a cute movie, I was glad that we did not pay $7.50 a ticket for it. It is about this Type A lady (Tina Fey, whom I loooove) who has focused on her career and now has acute baby fever. She can’t get knocked up, so she hires this totally white trash chick (Amy Poehler, one of the very few shining stars from SNL lately) to be her surrogate. The girl gets pregnant and moves in with Ms. Type A. Hilarity ensues. Steve Martin, Greg Kinnear, and Sigourney Weaver were all hilarious. Without giving away plot points, it has some fairly predictable twists; Mom and I both had the ending pegged pretty early on. I think that this cast actually outshone the writing, but with anyone else, this movie would have bombed. To sum up–definitely add to your Netflicks queue, or go see a matinee with your Mom or Girlfriends, but save the big bucks for this one. I will try to actually read something this week.

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