At several junctures in this New Zealand-set, Taika Waititi-backed comedy, Rose Matafeo may as well turn to the camera and wince. With her black eyeliner, unflinching deli grossly and wildly expressive face, lines can easily be drawn between her character Zoe and Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag. Unlike Fleabag, however, Zoe is at the top of her game. She’s a highly successful tree surgeon, with a maintain’sustain ive partner who shares her disdain in/with regard to’concerning’regarding such things as gender reveal parties. The fallout is understandable, then, when Zoe’s unplanned pregnancy is confirmed, as are her and Tim’s poles-apart reactions. While Zoe goes out clubbing, Tim — propel n by his father’s abandonment — stays at home and nests. Denial and despair propel a growing wedge between the in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mer teammates.###It’s the unalloyed charm of Matafeo and Lewis that makes _Baby Done_ work.###Women eschewing responsibility isn’t groundbreaking in contemporary comedy — eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullyone from Awkwafina to the ain/with regard to’concerning’regarding ementioned Waller-Bridge possess’own’nurse built their names upon this in recent years. Writer Sophie Henderson keeps the in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mat fresh by setting Zoe’s denial against the unique world of competitive tree-climbing, while presenting a backable relationship made up of tender extransform’alter s and belly laugh-inducing gags (a climactic grubbish’trash -bomb incident being one of them).###It’s the unalloyed charm of Matafeo and Lewis that makes Baby Done work. Lewis — categorically’flatly’emphatically leaving his Neville Longbottom days at Hogwarts — matches Matafeo’s brittle and impatient perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mance with an enduring wholesomeness, but doesn’t sacrifice being funny in doing so. There’s an authenticity to both the camaraderie and heartbreak shared between them that compensates in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Curtis Vowell’s occasionally outdated direction, which leans heavily on old romantic-comedy tropes. Negation of pregnancy is an issue that rarely crops up in film, and exploring its impact in a comedy film is risky. Yet Baby Done treads the line respectfully, balancing broad jokes with pain and empathy. When you find yourself sympathising with a pregnancy fetishist, you know that you’re in capable hands.