"Reasonable film, watch it if there is nothing else to watch it has a few laughs."
This film highlights the poor plight of the modern woman. Choosing a career over a relationship, marriage and children ultimately means - her body clock starts to run down and the chances of conceiving are greatly reduced. This film tells the story of one such woman, top of her game career wise she has decided it is time to have a child. But she can't have baby naturally because she has a weird shaped uterus and her chances of conceiving are one in a million. So she looks to hire a surrogate to have the baby for her, while she get's on with her busy lifestyle.
Now as a comedy this film is quite endearing, top class career woman Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) has come out of the 'mommy closet'. She decides she wants to have a child, so in a typical businesslike way goes about buying one. That is once she finds out it is impossible for her to get pregnant by means of artificial insemination.
In steps Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler) to act as her surrogate, a low achiever by Kate's standards but a nice enough person all the same. When Angie splits with her husband, she moves in with Kate. The chemistry between the two is interesting, chalk and cheese in one respect they both form an almost awkward friendship. As the two women come to terms with living with a stranger their friendship grows stronger, they start to enjoy one another's company rather than just tolerate each other. Everything is going well, but Angie has a secret that will destroy Kate's world! She just can't find the right time to tell her.
Not a lot to say about this film, if I were being critical you could call it a sad reflection of today's society. If I were putting on my male chauvinist hat, I would say it reflects how women want it all these days. But really it just a romantic comedy, that has a few funny moments, reasonable acting and what we always want in these types of film - a happy ending ahhhh ... (vomit noises).
The film as whole drags a little in parts, but then I always find this with comedies. They tend to run out of steam a little. The further you get into the film the more the jokes start to dry up, the more serious the film tries to become. I think it is just something to do with this sort of genre.
There is a good supporting cast including Greg Kinear, Steve Martin, Sigourney Weaver, Dax Shepard, Romany Malco, Maura Tierney, Holland Taylor and James Rebhorn. Though I do have to wonder why is Steve Martin not funny anymore? He is reasonable in this as the wacky new age executive with strange ideas. But he doesn't make you laugh, instead he seems to make you cringe. Perhaps that was the intent, though I had the feeling Martin was 'trying' to be funny, shame it didn't work.
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