Bad Moms (2016)

Well, hi everybody. This is my first time on this side. I always read some reviews before watching the movie I picked. I'm a huge fan of horror and comedy. I'm totally a movie freak.

What's the whole deal about this movie? I couldn't stop laughing. That humor salad was well served!

These days its hard to have a good laugh on films, like Bad Moms. It is a comedy! Free the tense. If you didn't, at least a little smile on that supermarket scene you are cold!

Katheryn hahn is the best!!!!🎂

Overall, this is a very enjoyable flick. With very different touches of humor.

Fmovies: I don't normally write reviews but on this occasion I feel obliged to even it just prevents one person from wasting 1 hour 40 minutes of precious life.

I was expecting an easy going comedy with a few laughs. Instead I was faced with no laughs and no comedy. The 'jokes' are crude and rely on crude sexual references throughout, with the odd bit of slapstick when the writers just couldn't be bothered any more. The circumcised penis scene was embarrassing to watch, it could be considered highly offensive and sexist and will alienate the vast majority of male viewers.

The premise of hard working mothers making a few mistakes when bringing up their children and gain some redemption against judgmental parents who can do no wrong, isn't too bad. However, it is ruined by a dreadful script and a frank lack of effort. The idea that a wealthy, middle-class American mother rules the school from her role as the PTA president is ludicrous. A popularity context then ensues and after a spontaneous rave at house party full of mothers, that includes a random girl-on-girl kissing scene for no apparent reason, leads to the most obvious result in a PTA presidential election (if that's even a thing.

Mila Kunis is poorly cast as a 32 year old working mom with a twelve year old daughter and a son. She does not fit the role and her situation is just difficult to believe and relate to (she lives in an enormous, immaculate house for example). Kristen Bell and Christina Applegate were disappointing and every other word out of Kathryn Hahn's mouth is an expletive.

Do not watch this film!

I believe anyone involved with the production of this movie should be required to pay damages to those who wasted even 5 minutes having their minds polluted with this drivel. If you removed the near constant crude comments about sex and sexual organs as well as the profanity there would be maybe 15 minutes left of the show. The men are characterized as morons, the 'moms' as clueless, disorganized wimps except for the female co-star. She is a sexually aggressive piranha with no filter. If the part had been played by a man who groped and made sexually suggestive comments towards women you'd see women up in arms crying about sexism. They would be digging in their purses for their therapist's emergency phone numbers five minutes in. But it's okay for a female lead to portray this and men should be okay with it? Double standard there? The 'children' in the show are portrayed as disrespectful and patronizing towards their parents with no consequences. I've been searching for an appropriate description of this show and it is 'mind filth'. I do believe this is the worst movie I have ever seen. Ever.

Bad Moms fmovies. Penned by the writers of "The Hangover" (Jon Lucas and Scott Moore), this was a film I went into with really, really low expectations. But it was better than I expected it to be.

Mila Kunis (which we already know means "Fine" in Navajo) plays Amy, a normal working Mum (albeit clearly living in a hugely affluent neighbourhood) with a no-good husband and two kids. Amy is at the end of her tether, and as parents haven't we all been there? After one particularly dreadful day she uncharacteristically heads for a bar and forms a firm friendship with hen-pecked wife and Mum Kiki (an excellent Kristen Bell) and the potty-mouthed and kick-ass Carla (Kathryn Hahn). Making a pact to not follow convention they decide to be "Bad Moms" which brings them into direct conflict with Gwendoline ("Anchorman"'s Christina Applegate), the tyrannical head of the school Parent Teacher Association and her fawning sidekicks Stacy (Jada Pinkett Smith, "Matrix" sequels) and Vicky (Annie Mumulo, "Bridesmaids"). As attacks get personal, Amy is forced into standing against Gwendoline for the PTA chair and a battle royale ensues.

From the film's publicity, I expected this to be a "3 go mad in Vegas" style of romp, but it didn't head in that direction. True that there is one very funny and well-cut scene of craziness in a supermarket ("Kids, we're going to have to find a new supermarket"), but the film has a more thoughtful tone reflecting as it does the stresses on working parents exacerbated by the need to conform to social mores.

It would be dangerous at this point for me, as a man, to appear sexist and misogynist, so I will quote (and credit) my wife here in commenting that the film is like a "Next Generation" movie to 1987's Diane Keaton vehicle "Baby Boom". In that film Keaton's character has to juggle a corporate working life with unexpected child rearing: something still relatively unusual in those days (yes folks, things have changed a LOT for the better in 30 years). "Bad Moms" skims forward to today when being a working parent is almost a given, but the characters in the film view that maybe that swing has gone too far - that there is not enough time for them to treasure and nurture their kids. Here the film does slip into sexist territory in featuring all the struggling "Moms" as predominantly female: the one single Dad (hunk and love interest Jay Hernandez) never seems stressed or out of his depth.

So, there is a good concept in here, but to be honest it is not particularly well executed. Given that it is supposed to be a comedy, the limited laughs supplied are well distributed throughout the film. It's more of a smile-along than a laugh-along.

The film is also pretty inconsistent in tone, flipping as it does from the leads being "Bad Moms" to being lovey-dovey "aren't my kids adorable"parents. For a UK audience I would suggest that there is way, WAY too much sickly hugging of kids going on. And - without spoilers - the denouement at the ending is far from satisfying.

On the plus side, it is technically well delivered, and looks like bloody Shakespeare compared to the truly execrable "Dirty Grandpa". The editing is slick and the music choice and music editing is particularly good. Some of the performances - especially those of Bell and Hahn - are great. And a particular nod to young Oona Laurence as Amy's daughter w

This is another example of how a good comedy is far more difficult to make than a good drama or action flick.

I was dragged along to this movie by a friend hoping that it would not be as bad as the trailers and TV spots suggested. It is. I really wanted this movie to surprise me, to make me laugh to make me care for the characters and have some investment in the story, but it failed to achieve any of that. What I saw was a two hour mess of a movie. An unfunny, poorly written, poorly edited, contrived cash-in on the beloved Hangover franchise. It has some of the poorest dialogue and worst performances I've seen in a while. I honestly can't think of any redeeming qualities that this film has.

The ugly gag about uncircumcised men is particularly nasty and reveals a mean spirit considering that circumcision rates are declining in the USA and currently at only about 60%. So that's almost half the domestic population that has been insulted by the dirtbags responsible for this disaster. What pathology is behind this scene one can only guess at.

The film tried much too hard with the overuse of raunchy, vulgar unnecessary humor, which cheapened the movie, which caused this film to be nothing more than an overrated B Movie embarrassment.

I am not a prude by a long-shot, it just didn't work. Just a badly written movie.

I couldn't even utter a chuckle or a smile from these God awful flat jokes. All I could do, was roll my eyes with disbelief. Painful to watch.

This movie "could" have been SO brilliantly funny, witty, and adorable. What were the writers thinking?? It's definitely..... NO 'Hang-Over' movie. How could anyone remotely compare the two. Ouch! What can I say..... It was just WRONG on every level.

Lastly- The first movie I ever walked out on, and demanded a refund. Thank you AMC Theaters for the credit. I wouldn't have paid $5.00 at a cheap show for this mess.

psst. Mila Kunis- I really like her. But this movie destroyed her comedy appeal.

Please rethink your visit, before you see this movie.