A ★★½ review of Baby Mama (2008)

Tina Fey is a successful career woman who desperately wants a baby but can’t conceive. She picks ne’er-do-well Amy Poehler to carry her baby. Sitcom hijinks ensue. The appeal of this one is all in the cast (though it’d be more interesting if Fey and Poehler had switched characters), including a smoothly likable Greg Kinnear as a juice-shop owner Fey takes a shine to, Steve Martin as Fey’s deeply New Age boss, Sigourney Weaver as the surrogacy-clinic supervisor, Dax Shepard as Poehler’s incredibly stupid common-law husband, and the scene-stealing Romany Falco as Fey’s doorman. The script is full of easy