Tell us about the one mistake you made as a mom.. It’s not just working moms, but single moms and stay-at-home moms as well. Fed up, she kicks out her oafish online-philandering husband (David Walton), stands up to her young douchey boss (Clark Duke, very amusing with just a few scenes), and quits the PTA, which is run by the iron fist of snooty Gwendolyn (Christina Applegate) and her underlings (Jada Pinkett Smith and Annie Mumolo).
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Keeping up appearances is a losing game.
Rounding up an excellent cast, and a wicked script that harness the chaotic exuberance of “Bridesmaids“, writer-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore raise a glass to a distinctive brand of feminism that “Ghostbusters” strove for but couldn’t quite grasp. There’s the sexy ringleader, the put-upon type-A personality and the wild card. Watching a mom who is fed up with the system and exhausted of not feeling like she’s measuring up to all the “good moms” go a bit insane?
Bad Moms is the story of three mothers who have been near flawless in parenting and growing up in their marital relations. She’s always trying her best to be the mother she feels her kids deserve while at the same time trying to live up to the incredibly high standards set by the other moms at her kids’ school.
This movie isn’t bad because it’s written by two men. More importantly “chick flicks” in general are ironically sexist, but Bad Moms isn’t – perhaps we’re now at the dawn of a new breed of modern chick flicks, which I guess is a somewhat of a good thing. Make sure to stick around for the bonus feature after the movie ends! It’s entertaining to watch a bunch of women doing crass un-womenly things for a change, and not see female characters being reduced to inanimate objects like in most movies.
“One night I partied until 4:30 a.m. and I woke up with the worst hangover in years”.
This movie is all for that mom who tries a lot to become a good mother and wife, but they failed.
Ending with a film-summarizing speech and tying up every loose narrative strand with the same bows that adorn Lexus’ “December to Remember” sales vehicles are further discouraging, yet “Bad Moms” keeps the yuks coming until the screen fades to black.
“I certainly play a character, however, who is certainly unshackled from feeling any sort of guilt or shame about her “me time” which is 24 hours a day”.
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“One time I was playing in the park with my daughter and she was going to go down the slide and I really wanted to capture the moment on Snapchat”. Every day she strains to meet the demands of work and home, while making it look easy. Their low-key approach (along with their recently acquired #relationshipgoals insta-fame) proves that they’re really no different from us, regular, everyday, broke folks. “If they’re lucky enough to still have their moms around, and they pick up the phone and call their mom, that’s also a win”.
