"Baby Mama" starring Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and other cast members of Saturday Night Live, come together to create a comedic story line of a 37 year old successful corporate woman who is unable to conceive children. Beacause of her "T-shaped uterus" Kate (Tina Fey) tries an array of methods to conceive/ adopt a child, which all end up being unsuccessful.
Not to give up too much of the movie, I'll just point out the racial, underlying themes that stood out to me in the movie.
1. There is a scene where Kate is sitting with her mother and sister and they are discussing the possibility of adoption. I wasn't really paying attention due to the fact that the beginning of movies always bore me. But my ears were sharp as a knife when I heard the mother say; "Please just don't bring home a black baby!" (I quote loosely as I don't remember the exact words) *silence*
Only a few chuckles here and there were heard throughout the audience. My jaw was still enjoying the coolness of the theatre floor as I was SPEECHLESS.
Then the mother character follows up the "joke" by saying, "I hate to see these celebrities all over TV like, 'Hey look at my black baby.' " *FLOORED* (More laughs were then heard throughout the predominantly caucasian crowd.)
2. The second, of many, racial innuendos in this stupid movie was the first speaking role of an African American character. Oscar (Romany Malco), the doorman from Kate's building is seen standing outside in his doorman's uniform with headphones on. He is listening to music, rapping loudly, cussing and galavanting like a classless negro. (The entire audience laughs) As he is standing talking to Kate, he is shown periodically opening and closing doors for WHITE people walking in and out of the residential building.
Why was he just a doorman in an expensive-looking residency. Why did he have to speak "ebonics? and why the fuck did they have him rapping and carrying on in his first scene in the movie? Im not even gonna get into the little comments he made throughout the movie about having "baby mamas" of his own. So damn stereotypical.
3. There are other subtle things in the movie that I don't care to get into.
Point in case, don't go see this movie, if you are easily offended. Kate, ends up having her own kid (after beating the one-in-a-million chance odds) due to the fact that her surrogate mother (Amy Poehler) got pregnant by her common law husband and wasn't carrying Kate's baby in the first place!!!! I know I said I wouldn't give it away but I don't want anyone to waste their time seeing it.
*smh*
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