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...Baby Mama to the rescue! The movie, written and directed by Saturday Night Live scribe Michael McCullers, dares to imagine that somewhere in this world of carelessly, ceaselessly fertile females there might be one woman who wants a baby but can?t have it. Her name is Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey), she?s 37, lives in Philadelphia, has an OK job working for a goofy whole-foods guru (Steve Martin), yet feels somehow empty: no man, no marriage and especially no baby. ?I just don?t like your uterus,? her gynecologist (John Hodgman) tells her, adding that Kate...
...Except for the natural nine-month dramatic arc (which is what attracts writers to the pregnancy plot), this is prime-time sitcom fodder. Oscar and Felix; Kate and Angie. 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. Hitting familiar buttons isn?t a sin if the exercise is carried off expertly, as it is here. And the two stars, deprived of the opportunity for girlish giggling they took undue advantage of as SNL?...
...McCullers? best trick is to keep viewers unsure of which side they should be on, before they realize the story?s not about confrontation but collaboration. Neither character is a caricature. Kate could be the snooty Bryn Mawr deb of old movies - the one whose class prejudices must be exposed by the working-class hero or heroine - but no, she?s decent, patient and hard-working. (And unexpectedly curvy-sexy, in the mandatory straight-girl-has-to-get-drunk-and-go-crrraaazy scene.) Most of all, Kate wants only what?s best for her baby, even if it drives...
...imprisoned. Instead, she?s spirited, resourceful and crafty of mouth, always ready to parry an accusation with some counterfeit common sense. She?s also smart enough to overcome the garbage education daytime TV has saddled her with. The meeting of disparate souls brings with it the inevitable apology swap. Kate: ?I?m sorry I called you stupid.? Angie: ?I?m sorry I farted into your purse...
...Much is made of the regimen Kate wants to put her surrogate on. Angie argues that a package of food stamped ?organic? kind of defeats its own purpose if it deprives consumers of the basic allure of food: yumminess. As she opines, ?That crap?s for rich people who hate themselves.? And later: ?I?m not tryin? to be dramatic, but I would rather be shot in the face than eat this food.? Why shouldn?t she stick to her diet of Dr. Pepper, Pringles, TastyKakes, Red Bull and the occasional cigarette? And when threats...