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- Kathryn Hahn delivers another standout performance in A Bad Moms Christmas, which is nonetheless a disappointingly uneven comedy. The film often goes too far in its ridiculous characterizations of the older mothers, to the point that its final act is essentially crippled by the sudden, emotional jumps that all the characters have to make.
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Nov 1, 2017 · Reviews. A Bad Moms Christmas. Christy Lemire November 01, 2017. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. “A Bad Moms Christmas” has the shoddy look and frantic feel of a slapped-together, cash-grab sequel, because that’s exactly what it is.
Parents need to know that A Bad Moms Christmas is the sequel to Bad Moms and has similar levels of raunch, drinking, drugs, and language. Expect plenty of sexual content -- including jokes about an impressively endowed man (a stripping scene shows the "evidence" via a prominent outline in his…
- Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
- Joyce Slaton
- Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn
Nov 1, 2017 · 32% Tomatometer 129 Reviews 43% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings Under-appreciated and overburdened moms Amy, Kiki and Carla rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for...
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- Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
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- Holiday, Comedy
- An uneven script and too many new, superfluous characters make Bad Moms 2 just plain bad.
- Verdict
By Alex Welch
Posted: Nov 2, 2017 7:26 pm
The first Bad Moms managed to greatly exceed box office expectations last year, and despite its cookie-cutter premise and execution it turned out to still be an enjoyable time at the movies. Most of that was thanks to the strong chemistry between its three leads, Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and a standout Kathryn Hahn, with the three women cast as the titular bad moms looking for some kind of escape from their chaotic daily routines. So it doesn’t come as much of a surprise that a sequel was fast-tracked, or that it’s been packaged as both a follow-up to the first and a Christmas-themed comedy.
For what it’s worth too, the film’s holiday setting does help to give it a slightly different energy than the first. But like many other sequels that have come before it, A Bad Moms Christmas makes the classic mistake of thinking the addition of several new characters and subplots is the same thing as building off of the first film’s story in any meaningful way. While those new additions come in the form of talented veteran stars like Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines, Susan Sarandon, and Peter Gallagher, the film’s decision to shift the focus away from the relationship of its original three women to their tattered bonds with their even worse mothers results in a disappointingly uneven and scattershot comedy.
Set fairly soon after the events of the first film, A Bad Moms Christmas begins when Amy (Kunis), Kiki (Bell), and Carla (Hahn) each find themselves becoming gradually overwhelmed by the deluge of responsibilities and errands that all moms must endure during the annual holiday season. However, their plans to take back Christmas for themselves - which comes in the initial form of a drunken shoplifting spree and other general, blatant bad behavior - are derailed by the arrivals of their mothers.
Each of the older mothers end up possessing similar traits as their daughters, though they’ve been upped to some ridiculous levels here. Baranski leads the trio as the snobby, pushy, and passive-aggressive mother to Kunis’ Amy, while the ridiculously over-attached relationship of Hines’ character Sandy with Kiki is the least funny gimmick that the film has to offer. By the time that she begins wearing Christmas sweaters with Kiki’s face on them and making up different diseases she might have to guilt Kiki into letting her stay, you’re not only annoyed by her but ready for the film to just move on.
Kathryn Hahn delivers another standout performance in A Bad Moms Christmas, which is nonetheless a disappointingly uneven comedy. The film often goes too far in its ridiculous characterizations of the older mothers, to the point that its final act is essentially crippled by the sudden, emotional jumps that all the characters have to make. It may of...
- Alex Welch
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 5, 2019. Sara Clements Enthuse. A Bad Moms Christmas is one of the best comedies of [2017], and a feel-good movie that every mother and daughter...
Nov 3, 2017 · Peter Bradshaw. Fri 3 Nov 2017 02.00 EDT. Last modified on Wed 18 Dec 2019 09.44 EST. S equel-franchising a comedy by bringing in the uproariously inappropriate older generation is becoming a bit...
Nov 1, 2017 · The movie took a few swipes at how underappreciated mothers are, but mostly it was about how guilty they feel for failing, in one way or another, to live up to their own stressed-out standards of...
