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Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival review: Baby Formula, Oct. 9

By Ryan Jent on Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:00 am

But within the first 15 minutes of the Canadian film it becomes abundantly clear that humans don’t move or speak like either Athena or Lilith, and they certainly don’t reproduce without sperm.

The format could easily be used to suspend belief but is victimized by wandering plotlines including suicide vs. life with Alzheimer’s, embarrassing stereotypes (Lilith’s two fathers, Athena’s uber-Catholic mother) and a random rendition of “My Humps.”

But the opening credits are brilliant.

Baby Formula: Fri. Oct. 9, Tampa Theatre, 9 p.m. CL is running reviews of movies in the Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Festival on the Daily Loaf throughout the festival.

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Baby Formula works, as a formula, in much the same way E=Mc cubed would: it doesn’t. The mockumentary format leads you to believe that the actresses portraying the two lesbians who’ve conceived sans sperm could be real people. That perhaps they aren’t just, well, bad actresses.