A Bad Moms Christmas

A Bad Moms Christmas

“A Bad Moms Christmas,” to be honest, looks shabby and is frantically done like a sequel hurriedly put together just to get money.

The film came out in the theaters only 15 months after “Bad Moms” was released as an unexpected hit and made $184 million worldwide these are huge numbers for a female led comedy at all especially middle of summer blockbuster season.

Consequently, there’s another “Bad Moms” movie that mirrors its predecessor in terms of plot line and themes except that this time round we have twice as many moms because the mothers of those women have decided to come around and mess things up even more. Moreover, this happens during Christmas where they include all the other attendant clichés about how much it does not feel like the most wonderful time of the year.

This also happens to be the exact same premise as the upcoming “Daddy’s Home 2,” another sequel nobody needed featuring the dads of the dads. (Inter generational holiday hilarity surely will ensue). For now, though, we must struggle mightily through the sight of veteran comic actresses trying to make the most of the weak, one note material they’ve been given.

Every once in a while, “A Bad Moms Christmas” finds raunchy sweet balance which eluded its predecessor mostly courtesy on screen from Susan Sarandon and Kathryn Hahn acting as mother-daughter duo. But while returning writer/directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore have replicated many elements from original such as structure plus shock-value they disregarded basic truths about motherhood that helped give it some substance.

These three central characters their anxieties about attempting to cater for everyone around them at every moment; Amy (Mila Kunis), Kiki (Kristen Bell) and Carla (Hahn) were familiar figures who provided much-needed solidarity with each other. Nevertheless, “A Bad Moms Christmas” makes their connection between themselves and many of the antics in the film as lazy as possible: slow motion montages of their drunken exploits. There are about a half dozen in the mall, at the indoor trampoline place scored to loud rock or pop songs. They are filler. If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.

Along those lines, each actress is stuck in her character’s own specific lane for nearly the entirety of the film with the moms’ moms going to even more wacky extremes until just about the end, when the story does an emotional about-face and decides to be a tearjerker. However, particularly during such moments Kunis herself becomes so much completely involved showing unexpected diversity but it remains stray if we begin to understand her before tears start rolling down our eyes.

However, Christmas started off wrong. A flash backward six days ago shows that Amy’s, Kiki’s and Carla’s mother came to celebrate the holiday with their families on the surface. But they have also brought along emotional baggage, as well as gifts for the grandchildren, which by implication means that all those insecurities and resentments of decades are dredged up.

Amy is a condescending and controlling woman named Ruth (Christine Baranski) who disapproves her daughter’s Christmas efforts at home and rather demands an expensive extravaganza instead. (Of course Baranski has been doing this type of diva character in her sleep for years now; it’s one of her few consistent sources of comic relief).

Kiki has a needy clingy mum called Sandy (Cheryl Hines in the least developed role) who sees her daughter as a best friend and has no respect for other people’s spaces. Then there is Isis (Sarandon), Carla’s mom, a debauched gambling addict who only pops up when she needs money because she hasn’t been around often.

It does not take long before our moms once again say: “Screw it,” under pressure of living up to old-fashioned idealistic standards of the perfect Christmas combined with having their mothers around. And that takes us back to where we started this whole conversation about Bad Moms Christmas’ story line: a series of increasingly chaotic events within genteel suburban confines something we’ve seen done far better time after time than it can be done here. They no longer seem as dedicated to rebellion as they did earlier on because even themselves they cannot convince about what they are doing.

But Hahn is yet again the standout MVP in this film, just like she was in the first Bad Moms movie, due to her willingness to go into strange and dark places. Like Melissa McCarthy or Kate McKinnon, Hahn does so much more with little, through large gestures and slight looks and she is always a joy to look at. This is evident especially in her scenes alongside Justin Hartley who plays a masculine Santa Claus character that has a heart made of gold; they meet when he goes into the spa where Carla works to get his pubic hair waxed before stripping for male dancers.

Their lively exchange of words combines naivety and indecency which could have made this whole “Bad Moms Christmas” different.

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