Movie Review: Bad Moms Offers A Peek Into The World Of Women
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Women emancipation and gender equality are burning issues today and have inspired countless films. Bad Moms, starring Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn, is another addition to that list.
Amy Mitchell (Mila Kunis) is too busy taking care of her kids and her job to realise that her life is non-existent. When she finds her husband having an affair, she decides to call it quits and her life becomes all the more difficult. She finally teams up with two other over-stressed mothers, Kiki (Kristen Bell) and Carla (Kathryn Hahn) and decides to quit being what has been a given for women for centuries – being mothers. This decision of hers has her clash with the leader of her school’s PTA, Gwendolyn (Christina Applegate) and her hanger-ons. What happens next forms the rest of this film.
Bad Moms is a unique film that brings to the fore social issues that rock the modern world. The movie gains points because it isn’t preachy and gives a balanced view of both sides. If Amy is an over-achieving employee, she also enjoys drinking cheap liquor in the aisles of a supermarket. The film starts as a typical chick-flick but takes on a more serious tone as it progresses – and doesn’t lose its humour and earthy quotient for even a minute. The gag-a-minute nature allows the audience to tag along.
The soul of the film is the mismatched trio of Amy, Kiki and Hannah and the three bring out that well. Amy’s successful, Kiki’s a housewife and Hannah, well, Hannah is a free soul that has some miles left in her. Their performances are well-meaning and create a connect between the characters and the audience.
But Bad Moms fails on several counts. Almost all the characters are stereotypes and the men in the film get the worst of it. The husband’s a cheater, the other guy’s a hot bod who’s got a voice that makes the women go weak in their knees, so on and so forth. The characters of the women are well thought of but are closed in by the script. The script by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore works out like it’s a sitcom from the nineties and doesn’t allow any of them to evolve. Another nagging thing is the criminal waste of Jada Pinkett Smith in the role of a hanger-on. What made her sign up for the role?
Bad Moms is not a bad film, but it does miss out on an opportunity to create a generation and genre-defining product like Jon and Scott’s earlier work, The Hangover.
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