The Saturday Night Live duo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler move to the big screen in this surrogate mother comedy. Fey plays Kate Holbrook, a successful career-driven woman who decides she wants to have a baby. After striking out using sperm donor services, she finds a service that provides surrogate mothers. Enter Angie Ostrowiski (Poehler), a lower income, much less sophisticated woman with boyfriend (Dax Shepard) issues. After being implanted with embryos to carry for Kate, she ends up leaving her boyfriend and ends up having to live with Kate. This bascially sets up the tried-and-true "Odd Couple" scenario for most of the rest of the film. There are a few subplots and, of course, an eventual romantic interest (Greg Kinnear), but most of the story and comedy revolves around the chemistry of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who clearly enjoy working together and seem to be having fun in this film. It is not laugh-out-loud funny and sort of leans more toward the "chick flick"genre, but it still works. It would definitely be funnier for women who have had children and even the men who shared the experience with them as they hit all of the points parents end up talking about: lamaze classes, eating right, and even the childbirthing videos that almost look like amateur porn. Overall, a funny movie and a good excuse for these two to work together again.Grade: C+
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