The Secret to Completing a Woman’s Life: BABIES!

June 15, 2008, category movies

Baby Mama I saw a few posts on the movie Baby Mama when the movie was first out in theaters. I, however, being the kind of person who finds it much more enjoyable to watch movies at home mostly while I am working as I am a chronic multi-tasker, I waited and recently watched the movie online a few days ago.

After seeing this movie in all of its cliche, hardly funny glory, I am beyond surprised that I didn’t see more posts regarding this movie when it had first hit theaters. Maybe it’s just me, perhaps a movie that revolves solely around a woman’s desperate need for a child isn’t particularly funny to me, considering the generalizations that played into the movie’s dialogue and the pure ridiculousness of the characters.

The main character, Kate, played by Tina Fey admits that she is a career woman and that she dedicated her life to becoming a successful business woman, yet while she carries these accomplishments with pride, especially since she is such a successful woman working within a group of men and happens to be the youngest person working within her particular business, her life is simply not complete without a child thrown into the mix. While I do believe that maternal instinct and the desire to have children as you get older exists and is quite apparent in the lives of many women, to base an entire movie on the fact that women believe they exist to have children is ridiculous. Sorry to break it to you, but a lot of women find that the time they have spent creating their lives and businesses have been well worth it and not all women start freaking out the minute of their 30th birthday thinking that they have wasted time and need to get pregnant immediately so their lives can officially be complete.

So when Kate decides that she absolutely positively must have a child in order to make her life complete, she goes to a sperm bank because you know, successful business women are always single; did I also mention that her character is uptight and a control freak? Must be how she got to be so successful and single! So after picking out some sperm, she brings it home and in 9 months of trying and coming up without child, she finds out that there is a one in a million chance for her to have a baby on her own. Oh no, what is a control freak, uptight, single business woman who needs a child to do? That’s right! They go to Sigourney Weaver’s surrogate clinic!

In this typical Hollywood catastrophe, Baby Mama succeeds in telling women that without a baby, their lives are incomplete and may as well mean nothing and the fact that they don’t have a man is pathetic enough, but don’t be child free as well! The movie also succeeds in making fun of Anorexia, the Wiccan religion and of course, because women are so hard up for children, surrogate mothers are going to end up wanting to keep the baby they “promised” to you anyway, so you really will need a miracle. A miracle, you say? Like I don’t know, a typical Hollywood ending where a woman finds a man and ends up being pregnant even though there was a one in a million chance of her being able to? Yeah, like that!

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