Baby Mama
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OK, look, if you really want to know what excited me at the movie theater today, jump straight to the second trailer. As for this, well, it's perfectly inoffensive (OK, they refer a couple of times to a woman's "taint," but come on--we're all adults here, aren't we?), and it tries really, really hard to make you love it, but . . .
I dunno--as pretty much a non-TV watcher, I really wanted to like Tina Fey based on stuff I've read about her, but she just seems undecided about whether she wants us to think she's sexy or hilarious, and thus is neither. Somebody tell her she can be both if she plays it right (cf. early Katharine Hepburn, or even Goldie Hawn, fer chrissakes!).
The woman who really grabs me here, of course, is Maura Tierney, in a microscopic role as the Fey character's sister. Has she had a starring role Scotland, PA? And speaking of things with Shakespeare debts, . . .
Trailers
- Mamma Mia!--No, not this one. Look, I'm hardly homophobic, and I owned Abba's Gold on vinyl, but I can't say I'm much interested, though the cast--Streep, Firth, Brosnan, and Big Love daughter Amanda Seyfried, among others--makes it a possibility. But seriously, how can it stir much emotion compared with . . .
- Hamlet 2--Oh, hell, yes! Darling of Sundance, got its distribution deal there, stars Steve Coogan, the funniest or second-funniest man in the U.K., and Catherine Keener, reintroducing Elisabeth Shue as Elisabeth Shue, plus Melonie Diaz, who is sometimes confused with Rosario Dawson--and it's Hamlet, fer chrissakes! Well, sort of.
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