A Bad Moms Christmas is just bad

Movie Title:  
A Bad Moms Christmas [Blu-ray]

Grade: F

Rating: R, 1 hour 44 minutes of torture

In a Nutshell:  It’s bad. There are moms.  And it’s Christmas.

I’m a mom, but CLEARLY I’m not the target audience for this trashy attempt at a comedy.

“Christmas is, by far, the most stressful time of year for moms,” explains Mila Kunis’ character.  Yep.  While that’s very true, that’s no excuse for the horrible behavior these irresponsible, obnoxious, rude moms engage in.  Yes, extreme absurdity has long been a formula for comedy, but 80% of the jokes in this sequel are super raunchy, and the other 10% are simply not funny.

There’s no talk about the true meaning of Christmas.  None of the women in this film seem to even know anything about Christ or what kind of behavior He expects from His followers.

 

Uplifting theme: 

• Mother/Daughter relationships
• Family is most important.

Things I liked:

• Kenny G! 
• Christine Baranski is such a critical, evil mother.  She’s great in all of her movies and even sings a little in this one.
• Surprise cameo

Things I didn’t like:

• The writing is terrible. None of the characters are capable of uttering a sentence without some kind of profanity in it.
• Lots of fighting.  Why is that funny?
• Kristen Bell is so talented.  Why would she ever want to be in such an awful movie?  Oh yeah….money.
• Kathryn Hahn’s character is so foul.  Her role was the stand-out in the first Bad Moms movie, so they really went over-the-top with her in this one.
• Everyone is so critical of everyone else.
• I hate listening to kids scream and cry in movies.
• Lots of slow-motion musical montages.
• These moms sure have a lot of spare time to hang out with each other and get drunk a lot.
• Instead of the “feel good” song at the end, a dirty Santa does a strip tease in front of the entire family.
• Mila Kunis manages to push out a tear in what is supposed to be the big emotional scene of the movie, but the dialogue was uninspired and droll.

Interesting Lines:

• “It’s like a giant stress ball from Christmas to New Years.” – Amy (Mila Kunis)
• “Trust me.   Some day she will thank me in an inspirational speech in some large, public venue.” – Amy's mother (Christine Baranski)   I laughed out loud at that line, because I think every mother secretly has the same wish. 

Tips for parents: 

• About 45,362 F-bombs.  Even an adorable little girl uses it. Other profanity and extremely crude language. 
• LOTS and LOTS of talk of sex, as well as imitating sex with clothes on.
• Moms smoke marijuana.
• Women kissing women.
• The moms commit various crimes.
• A bunch of Santa Clauses strip on a stage.
• Nude man on a waxing table (private parts hidden). 

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Single Moms Club movie review

Movie Title:   Tyler Perry’s Single Mom’s Club

Grade:   C

In a Nutshell:   It’s a fact: women need each other, whether single or married.  We just do.  The women in the audience I joined laughed and loved this chick flick.  Were they single moms?  I don’t know, but they seemed happy to escape their own lives and celebrate the common and crazy threads that tie women together. 

Unfortunately, the acting was not very good and the plot was terribly predictable, but there were some powerful truths and gentle words of encouragement along the way for women who struggle with life in its many forms.

Uplifting theme: 

• No matter our different backgrounds, we all battle with problems and need one another to survive and thrive.
• There is nothing stronger than a mother’s love for her children.

Things I liked:

• Terry Crews is over-the-top funny in every movie.  The sign on his truck cracked me up: “Body & Booty by Branson.”
• I always enjoy outtakes at the end of a movie, especially comedies.

Things I didn’t like:

• It’s both narcissistic and brilliant brand marketing that Tyler Perry puts his name in all of his movies.
• In most of the scenes, all of the moms wore super high heels.  As if.
• Zulay Henao is sexy and sultry, belonging more in a porn movie than one about moms.  Did Tyler Perry create this movie for moms or the men who would be dragged along to the theater with them?
• Struggling single moms don’t usually have such nice houses.  I’m just sayin…
• All of the single moms end up with a man.  Is that the message Tyler Perry really wants to tell women at the end of the day?
•  It felt a bit more like a sitcom than an actual feature film, and I won’t be surprised if we end up seeing a variation of this on the small screen next season.  

Funny lines:

• Looking at her son’s homework, she asks “Did you do your homework?  Is that right?”  - Lytia  (Cocoa Brown)
• There were actually quite a few funny lines, but many of them were too inappropriate to list here.

Inspiring lines:

• Hillary asks Lytia “How do you do it?  How do you be a single mom?”  Lytia answers “You can’t think about it or it’s overwhelming.  You take one snotty nose and one dirty diaper at a time.”
• “My grandmother used to say a woman’s purse is a reflection of her life.” – May.  It’s kind of true, but certainly doesn’t paint the whole picture.  It’s a glimpse of a woman’s priorities on-the-go.
• “Divorced 4 years.  We’re good people, just not good together.” – T.K.

Best line in the entire movie:

• “You don’t have to be good at starting over.  You just have to be good at letting go.” - Peter

Tips for parents:   Discussion about a daughter’s period, inappropriate sexual innuendos.