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	My Baby's Daddy
	Cheryl Dunye Eddie Griffin, Anthony Anderson, Michael Imperioli, Paula Jai Parker, Bai Ling, Joanna Bacalso 2004		Eddie Griffin, a guy who can be very funny in a smart, well-written or even marginally decent comedy ("Undercover Brother" and "Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo," for example), undermines his career by co-writing the puerile, rampantly awful script for "My Baby's Daddy" — and then starring in it. This purported comedy, clumsily ripping off "Three Men and a Baby," "Look Who's Talking" and other lesser efforts, tries to squeeze yucks out of the plight of three hedonistic Philadelphia bachelors who each get their respective girlfriends pregnant and are forced to learn how to be good fathers. Even with the somewhat skilled Griffin, Anthony Anderson ("Barbershop") and Michael Imperioli (TV's "The Sopranos") as the ne'er-do-well buddies, the film is so unfunny that watching it may make you agonize over the state of humanity. The women (Paula Jai Parker, Bai Ling, Joanna Bacalso) are either unfaithful, overly demanding or already on to embracing lesbianism. When humor is both lowbrow and dim-witted, you hope that, at least, it'll make you laugh. That doesn't happen here. If you have the misfortune to see "My Baby's Daddy," you'll feel more soiled than Junior's diaper after he eats too many jars of strained prunes. And, upon observing all of these losers in action, you may well fear the whole idea of procreation.