Review: Bad Moms 2

"Sequels of light weight or ranchy comedies are seldom good, especially when they come out very quickly after the original. Bad Moms 2 does nothing to help change this theory"

Oh dear:

I hadn't seen a trailer for this when we decided to go and see it. The second I realised it was a Christmas movie, I knew I was in for a tough night. Boy was I right.

From the opening moment of the film, when we find Mila Kunis recounting how she 'ruined Christmas' it is obvious that this film is going to have zero creativity and will just recyle endless cliche's from comedies of the past.

In the original, these chatacters behaved badly in reation to their life situation, which at least we could sympathise with them in some way. In this one, they're simply arseholes, who rob from people, or cause injury to others, with no reporcustion and we're supposed to feel sorry for them when their Christmas was ruined. Lets not worry about the guy they probably critically injured when they got drunk and stole a Christmas tree from a shop that had done nothing to them.

The Terrible Characters:

Christine Baranski plays the mother of Kunis, because somehow we're expected to believe that Mila Kunis is the daughter of Baranski and Peter Gallagher.

We spend a lot of time establishing that Baranski is a snobby, highly strung, fun hating mother and Grandmother. But once we don't go to the ballet as she had wanted and instead hit the trampoline fun park, she is suddenly up for a violent game of dodgeball, which of course, she just happens to be good at. Forget any sense of realistic or consistent characterisations here.

Susan Sarandon was clearly asked to play the same 'rock 'n' roll' grandmother character she has played for the past 10 years, so she phoned it in, combining with Kathryn Hahn to create one of the most unlikeable set of charcters in a film.

But the worst moments and characterisation of the film, would have to go to Justin Hartley, the former Green Arrow in Smallville, who plays one of the most over the top and stupid characters you will ever see. At the end of the film, he simply 'turns up' and the film writers clearly couldn't be bothered to explain how he found everyone, as they literally shrug their shoulders and figure if your brain hasn't yet imploaded from everything that has occured before it, then you're willing to forgive anything.

Oh, and Kristen Bell... you're better than this. Come on Veronica, make better choices.

Conclusion:

This film represents everything that many people dislike about Hollywood. The first was a surpise hit which was 'better than expected'. But this is everything a bad movie is in a bad way. Avoid at all costs, even if you liked the first one.