Bad Moms

Sometimes you have nothing better to do on a Saturday night than watch a horribly put together 'female comedy'. We're better than this girls...

Bad Moms begins with a particularly good mum in Amy Mitchell, played by the always beautiful Mila Kunis. She balances a 60 hour work week of being an overachieving full-time employee whilst also being a full-time mum. Although seemingly appearing to be the 'supermum', she never really gets the job done and sees herself as always coming up just short. After a day of nothing but bad outcomes and misfortune, Amy has enough of trying to live up to the image of being a mum with everything going right for herself and her family. She decides to live for herself and be wild and free but the other local mums refuse to let such blasphemy happen. One mum in particular, Gwendolyn James, played by Christina Applegate, has her eyes on Amy acting out and is set on tearing her back down.

While the film had plenty of moments of comedy, as you would expect in a 'comedy' film, the whole thing fell flat. The story was absolutely laughable, and not in the positive way. The climactic emotional moment made me feel absolutely nothing because the film spent no time making the characters likable or even tolerable. The love interest of the movie is forced and could have been excluded entirely without any real hindrance to the film. Almost every plot point was unrealistic and forgetful. Bad Moms is the very definition of a conventional comedy in that way, with the story being virtually predictable from the get go. It's upsetting that a film like this, promoted as being a film for women by women, provides a few chuckles and nothing else. Why can't we have the developed and complex characters portrayed in the male steered traditional comedy or action films. Hell, The Accountant did a better job representing women in the 21st century - and it featured a damsel in distress being rescued by a man! A few of the characters are complete caricatures and stereotypes which are clearly derived from a cookie cutter idea of the different types of women and the plot follows the beat by beat story arc of 'redemption of the down-on-her-luck protagonist' to a very tee. Mila, pick better roles please.

To the critical mind, this film falls way short of being anything special. To the targeted demographic that the film focuses on, this film will be a sure fire box office hit to them. So unless you fall within the latter, this film wont contribute anything to your day.