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Tina Fey is charming, but to borrow a phrase I read somewhere recently, I'm beginning to get a little Fey-tigued. Much like Jason Segel's penis, this woman is everywhere I turn. Yet I'm still a little surprised that they thought that she (and her co-partner in crime, Amy Poehler) could headline a movie. Which is more than likely why they brought in (former) big guns Steve Martin (who ends up playing a boss very similar to the preferable performance that Donal Logue gives in THE EX), Sigourney Weaver as a woman well into her fifties who has a special trick she does with her uterus (har har) and Greg Kinnear as the completely pointless and ineffectual half-way good looking romantic interest. The movie isn't without its laughs. There are a great deal that come from Fey's character's doorman, Romany Malco, and his advice on baby mamas as well as the advice that he gives to Poehler when her twist comes into play. I guess it's just another thing that annoys me about recent films and having a black side character play the supporting role and be better than the leads. Seeing a white pretty blonde like Scarlett Johanssen (actually brunette in this movie) THE NANNY DIARIES whose best bud was played by an annoyed looking Alicia Keys. (A prime example of someone who is in music and has no business in the movies.) The "brutha" or "sista" phenomenon. Like Hollywood is saying, "Hey, we include blacks in all of our movies. They're just colorful and funny side characters who save scenes when stuff is starting to get stupid or flat out wonky. We're diversified!" Malco, if you don't remember the name, was the black buddy in 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN, the brutha for that film. He also played M.C. Hammer in the VH1 movie about Hammer's life. But other than a few independent flicks where there was a more predominant black cast, he's subjected to playing the funny doorman who gets inserted in all the right places. Is the movie funny? Yeah, in portions. Is it funny enough to make me overlook the ugliness that is quietly contained behind the smiles? No. email this review to a friend
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