since they declared Bitch is the New Black, are back! Together! On the big screen.
Fey plays Kate Holbrock, the charmingly awkward 37 year old career woman, who, like a lot of women these days, finds herself approaching forty unmarried and without child. All of her energy has gone into her career; in this case: growing a Philly-based organic grocery chain called Round Earth along with her cartoonish corporate New Ageist of a boss, played by a silver pony-tailed Steve Martin. As the crisis of aging mounts, pragmatist Fey sets her next order of business: she's having a baby. Unfortunately for that goal, all her gynecologist delivers is the news that Fey is no longer fertile. "I just don't like your uterus," he says.

Enter disturbingly prolific baby machine Sigourney Weaver, playing fertility expert Chaffey Bicknell, round bellied and bursting with child well past menopause. Weaver teams Fey up with Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler) as surrogate mother, and her white trash lifestyle immediately clashes with Fey's sheltered rich white world of wonder. As Fey stands at the door to her secured-entry building, first waiting to meet Angie with her overly helpful doorman (Romany Malco filling time between seasons of "Weeds"), he predicts: "This gonn' lead to baby mama drama."

The drama comes later. Baby Mama first finds its fodder with the overt odd coupling of Fey and Poehler. After Poehler breaks up with her slovenly douche of a husband (by common law), she comes knocking on Fey's door in the middle of the night with luggage in hand.

The film's jokes make great use of the new symbols of social divide that mar our culture. Fey's organic food-loving ways don't go down well with Poehler's snacky cakes and Dr. Pepper. As Poehler proudly declares before she knows the horror that awaits under her womb-leasee's white-bread roof, "organic food is for dumb rich people who just want something to spend their money on."

Before the first little twist lightly jabs at this pristine story world, the scenes are divided up between the starlets' culture-divided antics, Fey bravely enduring her boss's five minutes of uninterrupted eye contact as a genuine reward for a job well done, and some snappy dialogue between Tina and Rob the love interest (a scruffy and surprisingly engaged Greg Kinear) who just happens to run an indie smoothie shop in the neighborhood Fey is trying to sink her company's teeth into.

After the jolt of the first jolts us out of our waning interest, the film is generally predictable but enjoyably fluffy, a compliment due more to the thespians than the script itself. The role of Kate Holbrock is so perfectly suited to Fey you would think this was another self-written vehicle following the successful Mean Girls. If you're like me, you would be wrong, and it's a shame, too - the script smartly pulls together more than enough material to make a worthwhile social comment, but simply tickles and coos our great cultural issues when it could have pulled some mean "yo mama" jokes. This choice makes even less sense when you take into account what we're left with in the end.

Despite the complete upheaval experienced in both Fey and Poehler's lives, the barely-there character arcs trail off into the ether by the end of the second act and the movie comes to a close without any sort of transformation beyond: (big surprise) they're mommies! By the time we realize the entire second act didn't need to happen, the credits are rolling and there are babies and improving actors everywhere.

Considering that Fey did not write the script, the fact that she engaged the screen and brought such endearment to a character she didn't create is especially impressive, and showcases the talent this rising star still has to offer the industry.

Overall, Baby Mama is a good watch, finding a decent balance between obvious gags, witty dialogue and predictable fluff, but disappointing in that it was poised to be a lot more. The result was not a fully realized birth, but far from an abortion, too.

The Forbidden Kingdom is a bloodless and family-friendly martial arts picture that unites worldwide action superstars Jet Li and Jackie Chan for the very first time. At times it is a splendorous entertainment thanks to a lavish production design and eye-popping kung fu choreography by the renowned Woo-Ping Yuen whose top-drawer credits include "The Matrix," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and the "Kill Bill" films. Your jaw will drop during some of the action sequences.

This story has been done a countless number of times but the early brisk pacing sweeps us immediately into action wasting very little time. Most similar to the 1984 fantasy "The Neverending Story," Boston teen (Michael Angarano, as the white bread Jason Triptikas) is pushed around by a bunch of bullies that want him to break into Old Hop's (Chan) video rental shop. Jason cowardly goes along with the plan and Old Hop does not fare well against the gang that smash up his shop and robs him. In the final moments of Old Hop's collapse, he urges Jason to care for a magical staff that has been a wall ornament for many years. The secret powers of the staff sends Jason in a magical journey back to the temples and ruins of ancient China - where most everybody speaks full English. Hey, it's only a movie.

Before Jason can return home to the 21st century, he must free the Monkey King (Jet Li), a powerful freedom fighter who has been frozen and encapsulated by an evil warlord (Collin Chou), who happens to occupy a fantastic palace that you only find in sumptuously designed movies. Jason is a lost white kid in a primordial foreign land ripped apart by tumultuous warfare, but he's able to hook-up with Lu Yan (Chan, in a second role) and Silent Monk (Jet Li in a second role). Sometime halfway in Jason, whose knowledge of kicking butt comes from martial arts DVDs, gets an easy and lightweight tutelage so he too can be trained in the martial arts.

In this kind of adventure movie, the kid must always rise from awkward and clumsy footed to formidable and lethal. In the part, Angarano gets the awkward and clumsy down pat more than he does the second part. In another movie, Angarano could be playing second banana to Shia LeBeouf or Hayden Christensen. He's only marginally talented, but he does well enough to halfway serve his purpose.

On the upside, main attractions Jackie Chan and Jet Li do vivacious work in very physical-driven performances. Chan is doing a reprisal of his early "Drunken Master" movies as this waylay reluctant hero who carries a jug of wine around and only fights after a little tipsy - kung fu meets drunken boxing. It's also a rebound for Chan after the dismal "Rush Hour 3." Jet Li is as expected a human combat machine, but he is showing a more humorous and mischievous side of himself that he hasn't demonstrated before. Monkey King is an exuberant tornado of a creation. And female sidekick Liu Yifei (as Golden Sparrow) is the most beautiful Asian star to be discovered since Zhang Ziyi, her placid softness in her facial features matched by dexterous physical abilities that define athletic grace.
Everything runs in stride in this fun adventure, even though it's a tad overwritten at the three-quarter mark. Special effects employed in the final showdown don't sink the project as some fantasy picture do, instead the effects elevate the visual dazzle with a nod to the classic video game "Mortal Kombat." The final resolution sees Jason return to the present back home in Boston, this time with some defense skills to square off against his schoolmate adversaries. This is icing on the cake.

After a 10-year friendship, Tom is starting to realize that Hannah is his perfect mate. As a testament of loyalty, Hannah will pretend to be Tom's girlfriend in situations when he's being hounded by, say, a groveling fat girl - and Tom hates fat girls (I don't write these movies, I merely report them). Narcissistic cluelessness keeps him from acting on true romance. Then during a swift six week period, Hannah while on vacation is swept away and engaged to a Scotsman (Kevin McKidd) who shoots deer for sport and can excel in log-throwing contests (in other words they have nothing in common but perhaps lust). Hannah asks Tom to be her maid of honor - it's a role reversal - the dude will be throwing bachelorette parties and participating in the selection of gift registry!

Let's get right to the point. This movie has the worst sex humor of any comedy in recent ages. Starting with the perceived impression that Tom is gay because of his maid of honor duty. Numerous references to a man's balls ("I was just finishing up his balls," Hannah remarks following a painting restoration project.) Sears underwear catalog (I'll leave explanation alone). And lastly, the Bill and Monica humor are stale jokes - that's Clinton and Lewinsky to the layman.

As for foresight, Hannah's not really into the Scotsman. There's more mouth and tongue action between Hannah and Tom then Hannah and her Scotsman during the course of this very unctuous comedy that curdles any sense of good taste. And I don't know about the rest of America, but I'm sick of any romantic comedy where the girl walks in on the guy unwillingly fooling around with a bimbo who's on top of him, sparking revulsion from the good girl who thinks the guy has cruelly deceived her. Ahh, what terribly predictable misunderstandings.

What I do understand quite well is that this flick will probably be flocked in its opening weekend for younger girls to coo and ga-ga over McDreamy. Let's pray that nationwide teen girls listen to their daddy's wisdom and don't chase after guys like Tom or Thomas Senior when they reach full bloom. All I can say out of my own personal beliefs is that Hollywood movies don't really like women. Monaghan as the heroine Hannah is well treated in this movie but the rest can not be said for the rest of the women in the cast whom are written as featherbrains. Most of them are referred to as porn objects.

Let's thank be to God that Julia Roberts, Gwenyth Paltrow, Uma Thurman, Meg Ryan, Rachel Weisz, Andie MacDowell never stooped to this level of trash nor did they ever play objects, rather, they've played real women. Julia Roberts actually made the similarly plotted "My Best Friend's Wedding" (1997) and that was a delight for its kind. Final note: The film was directed by hack Paul Weiland who previously helmed Leonard Part VI and City Slickers II.

What do you get when you mix one broken-hearted female with one recently-unemployed male and add a touch of Sin City? Wedded bliss, of course! Well, at least the "wedded" part is right.

In What Happens in Vegas, Cameron Diaz plays Joy McNally, a stiff and serious commodities trader in New York. Ashton Kutcher plays Jack Fuller, a fun party guy who doesn't take life (or anything) seriously.

Joy is destroyed when her fiancé announces he is kicking her out of their apartment and dumping her. And just to make the sting a little more vivid he does so in front of their friends at a surprise birthday party Joy planned in his honor. As a birthday gift to her fiancée Joy had bought a weekend trip to Las Vegas and, after she finishes crying in her chardonnay, she and her best friend Tipper (Lake Bell) decide to make the best of it and escape with a devilish girl's trip.

Jack is a happy and charismatic guy, until he gets fired from his job by his own father. His best friend Steve "Hater" Hader, played by Rob Corddry, convinces him to take a weekend reprieve to party it up Vegas-style.

After a hotel mix-up the two couples meet and end up painting the town together until all hours of the morning, only to discover upon awakening the next morning that Joy and Jack have tied the knot in a drunken stupor. After the fog of the previous night's activities begins to wear off they both agree to an annulment. That is, until Jack pops one of Joy's quarters into a slot machine and wins $3 million. "What's mine is yours" and Joy definitely plans on taking half of the cash.

The judge in the annulment case gets fed-up with their bickering and decides to sentence them to "six months hard marriage" before he will grant any sort of divorce.
"Gambling is probably the worst thing I've ever done in Vegas," Kutcher claims shyly, although he does admit to having quite a few years to train for the debauchery of his Vegas scenes. "I had my entire early twenties to really prepare for that scene; I have a lot of life experience to grow on for that kind of wild night."

What impressed him the most about filming What Happens in Vegas was not the uber-hip locale or the incredible group of actors enlisted (Dennis Miller plays the judge and Queen Latifah plays the marriage shrink) but Diaz's super-human physical ability. "Cameron's the fastest woman on planet earth," Kutcher said incredulously. "I trained for two months before this movie because I didn't want my leading lady to be in better shape than I was, and she still was. She's like superwoman."

He continued, "She's so strong. Whenever I was about to fall and hurt myself Cameron would save me. She was like my little saver-person," he laughed.

Aside from her physical strength, Kutcher gloated about what an amazing person Diaz is, both inside and out. "You show up to work and have to look at a good looking woman who's funny and happy to be alive and is nice to people - it [was] a nightmare," he joked. "And we had to deal with it every single day."

Her professionalism and artistic ability were also some things that impressed Kutcher. "I don't think that there's anybody like her, I think she's the only true comedic leading lady in our business right now," he said. "[She has] really honed that craft and she's worked with Jim Carey, Adam Sandler, Mike Meyers. She's worked with every great comedic actor I can think of, so she's got a one up on all of us."

The main theme in What Happens in Vegas is marriage and Kutcher was happy to talk about his own experiences with the institution and what he thinks is the secret to a successful relationship.

"I never thought I would get married," he admitted. "I watched my parents go through a divorce and I thought 'This is just not something people are supposed to do.' On top of that I thought 'Why am I going to put a legal document on top of a really great relationship?' It doesn't make a whole lot of sense."

Going on he said, "I don't do legal documents with my friends. I don't [say] 'Let's go down to the courthouse Rob (Corddry) because now that we're friends we need to verify our friendship.'" Although Corddry said he would be happy to sign any documents verifying his friendship with Kutcher. "I never really understood the whole idea of marriage, until I met my wife," he gushed. Then he "Just knew that was the person I was going to be with the rest of my life."

As for married life, Kutcher said, "I love it. I might be like the most hapliest, is hapliest a word? I just made up a new word. I am the hapliest married guy on the planet."
He is convinced there is one simple rule to making a relationship work, at least in his experience: working on it. "If you got hired at [a] new job and you showed up and you didn't work, you'd probably get fired pretty quickly. I think people think that once they get married the work's done, when really you just got the job."

Kutcher's boyish charm and sweet-spirited silliness are pretty perfect for his role as Jack in What Happens in Vegas. And in person he proves to be a true romantic. Cue the tears and "awwwww's" from all the ladies in four, three, two, one…..