One flick you'll be happy to orphan

Lonnie (Eddie Griffin), Dominic (Michael Imperioli) and G (Anthony Anderson) are three single guys who become fathers simultaneously and have to travel down the long road to maturity together in My Baby's Daddy, a movie that packs a pathetic punch in almost every way possible.\nThere is very little plot, so the movie relies on its characters, most of whom aren't very interesting. Rap star Method Man proves to be an exception, but when he arrives halfway through as No Good, G's criminal cousin, it's too late to save the movie. True talents like Amy Sedaris, John Amos and Scott Thompson turn up in throwaway cameos, but they are still good for a few chuckles. \nAs a comedy, Daddy fails in the worst way. Obvious jokes can be seen from a mile away, and they're simply not funny. Ill prepared fathers taking care of clueless babies isn't an original premise. Undoubtedly, these movies always involve dads that run into messy diapers or finally calm their crying infants in the most unorthodox of ways (for good measure, this film has both).\nThe movie attempts a promising display of multiculturalism with many characters crossing ethnic barriers for love. Yet the film decides to squander such opportunities on overtly racist humor. Two hopeless white rappers, speak in flamboyant slang accompanied graciously by subtitles ("Weeerdz" is "I concur with him"), and does anybody actually think Asians mispronouncing L's is funny?\nI'm not entirely sure what the writers had in mind when they somehow managed to squeeze in an eerie attempt at heartwarming family values inbetween the drug use, drinking and petty unpunished theft. \nThis movie is a quintessential "January dump away," or a film so poor the studio releases it in a cold month without critic screenings. The culprits for its failures would have to be director Cheryl Dunye and all four lackluster screenwriters. \nThe scary thing is, with such a jagged plot, it felt like there might have been much more to this movie that luckily ended up on the cutting room floor. And that may be the movie's sole accomplishment: with a running time of less than an hour and a half, it makes you realize no bad movie can ever be too short.