Post by Doomsday on Jul 30, 2016 11:17:47 GMT -5
What do you expect from a raunchy comedy about moms behaving badly? If you said 'Hot moms talking about dicks, blowjobs, getting high before taking you to school and saying the F-word' then you hit the nail on the head! Remember when your mom did all that stuff? Well if she did then she must have been a BAD MOM. Bad Moms is exactly the kind of movie that's telegraphed in its marketing, no more, no less. If seeing moms behave badly is your thing then this movie is up your alley. If you're looking for a competent comedy with fresh jokes, good comedic timing and enjoyable characters then you....well you knew this movie didn't have any of that before going in.
It's a movie that is exactly what you would expect based on the title and the trailers. Amy (Mila Kunis) is a working mom whose life is dominated by her part-time job working at a coffee company and taking care of her family. After a particularly miserable day where she catches her idiot husband masturbating on a webcam she throws up her hands and decides to enjoy her life for once. This attracts the attention of the offensive Carla (Kathryn Hahn playing THAT character) and the conservative housewife Kiki (Kristen Bell). Together they join forces to break moms everywhere from their chains and bring down the villainous PTA president Gwendolyn (Christina Applegate). Jada Pinkett-Smith is in here too as one of Gwendolyn's henchwomen. She must have lost a bet to take this nothing role.
Bad Moms is not a movie that you would expect to be very good if you're a fan of comedy in any way. It's a very surface-level comedy with all the jokes revolving around sex, 'raining dicks,' or partying because 'Moms aren't supposed to do that!' There are a couple funny lines here but it spends most of it's time trying way, way too hard to be offensive because again 'Moms aren't supposed to do that!' That really should be the tagline of the movie because it's the theme that the movie revolves around. Needless to say it's peppered with poor writing in a bad script that tries to buoy itself with the zany one-liners. And that's okay, it's what you would expect. I won't say 'Were you expecting Spinal Tap?' because I doubt anyone going into it is expecting a work of art or a new comedy classic. Bad Moms is aiming towards the low-brow audience that just wants to waste a couple hours watching women do what they wish they could do. It's a dumb movie that you can peg before going in and in that regard it neither rises above nor sinks below your expectations. I won't fault it for being one of the few movies that knows exactly what kind of movie it is.
C so says Doomsday
It's a movie that is exactly what you would expect based on the title and the trailers. Amy (Mila Kunis) is a working mom whose life is dominated by her part-time job working at a coffee company and taking care of her family. After a particularly miserable day where she catches her idiot husband masturbating on a webcam she throws up her hands and decides to enjoy her life for once. This attracts the attention of the offensive Carla (Kathryn Hahn playing THAT character) and the conservative housewife Kiki (Kristen Bell). Together they join forces to break moms everywhere from their chains and bring down the villainous PTA president Gwendolyn (Christina Applegate). Jada Pinkett-Smith is in here too as one of Gwendolyn's henchwomen. She must have lost a bet to take this nothing role.
Bad Moms is not a movie that you would expect to be very good if you're a fan of comedy in any way. It's a very surface-level comedy with all the jokes revolving around sex, 'raining dicks,' or partying because 'Moms aren't supposed to do that!' There are a couple funny lines here but it spends most of it's time trying way, way too hard to be offensive because again 'Moms aren't supposed to do that!' That really should be the tagline of the movie because it's the theme that the movie revolves around. Needless to say it's peppered with poor writing in a bad script that tries to buoy itself with the zany one-liners. And that's okay, it's what you would expect. I won't say 'Were you expecting Spinal Tap?' because I doubt anyone going into it is expecting a work of art or a new comedy classic. Bad Moms is aiming towards the low-brow audience that just wants to waste a couple hours watching women do what they wish they could do. It's a dumb movie that you can peg before going in and in that regard it neither rises above nor sinks below your expectations. I won't fault it for being one of the few movies that knows exactly what kind of movie it is.
C so says Doomsday
