The Girls Win the B.O. Battle!
Congrats to my favorite Weekend Update team, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, for having the #1 movie at the box office this weekend, Baby Mama. Must admit I haven’t seen it yet, and the clips look pretty dopey, but right on! Yes, women can do theatrical comedy successfully by a man’s measure. Harold and Kumar came in a close second with Guantanamo Bay, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall notched third place. Perhaps Judd Apatow and Co. are churning out too many too quickly, as I found the film a major disappointment after all the hype, and not very funny. The nude break-up scene? Whatever. Mila Kunis? Cute. The Hawaiian mileu? Pretty. Jason Segel? I’d rather watch Jonah Hill and the boys in Superbad a third time. (My favorite line of his: “No one’s gotten a blow job wearing cargo shorts since ‘Nam.”) Yawn….
