Lonnie (Eddie Griffin), G (Anthony Anderson)
and Dominic (Michael Imperioli) are affable
idiots. Lonnie is a nerd who wants to be cool,
G would like to be a boxer but isn't very good
and Dominic is a mediocre hip-hop producer.
Through the kind of coincidence that one can
only find in bad comedies of this sort, they
each get their respective girlfriends pregnant
and the babies are born on the same day.
That's hardly the worst problem with this silly
movie. The source material isn't bad--"Three
Men and a Baby" (itself a remake of a
far-too-revered French farce), here with a
couple of extra babies. It also isn't bad
because of its dumb racial stereotypes, dumb
gender stereotypes and scatological humor.
The problem isn't even that the film's plot is
fairly nonsensical: For reasons unknown, the
babies can suddenly talk with the aid of truly
awful CGI. It's inexplicable, yet it's still not the
film's worst offense. No, what make "My
Baby's Daddy" bad is that it isn't funny. Not
even a little.
Starring Eddie Griffin,
Anthony Anderson, Michael Imperioli, Method
Man, Joanna Bacalso, Bai Ling, Paula Jai
Parker and John Amos. Directed by Cheryl
Dunye. Written by Eddie Griffin, Damon
Daniels, Brent Goldberg and David Wagner.
Produced by Eddie Griffin, Happy Walters and
Matthew Weaver. A Miramax release. Comedy.
Rated PG-13 for sexual content, language and
some drug references. Running time: 86 min
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