All seems good. Two weeks later, Angie calls Kate with the news: She's pregnant. But, complications quickly ensue six weeks later: Angie has left boyfriend Carl, a philanderer and con artist, and has nowhere else to go. So she moves in with Kate. From there, you can pretty much guess the rest.

The two leads are funny as individuals, funny together, and they are fed enough funny lines to make "Baby Mama" work as breezy, lightweight entertainment, especially when they are both crammed in the same apartment.

Making his directing debut,writer/director Michael McCullers (who previously wrote the second and third "Austin Powers" movies) doesn’t help matters, shifting the tone of his screenplay between boorish bathroom humor, corny musical montages, and forced emotional confrontations without much concern for continuity.