A Bad Moms Christmas: Have fun this Christmas

Cast: Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Cheryl Hines, Christine Baranski, Susan Sarandon

Rated: 6/10

Clearly, when it’s Christmas time, moms have a terrible time — working, stressing, angsting and generally being plagued by efforts to “take back Christmas” as they would like it to be.

Premised on three such stressed out moms, this X-mas time celebratory movie is a sequel to Bad Moms who were good on screen. This time round, you do get some sweet family time to spend with popcorn and cola but come on, it’s Christmas so who has the time to fold in a neat story?

Just amble along moms being visited by their moms and getting into a rigmarole of being bullied by the oldies to become that perfect mom who can throw that perfect party for their children. It’s Christmas so there is humour, tears, reunions, loneliness, friendship and many such elf indulgent emotions that keep you involved in the proceedings.

You wish two things though even as you have fun with Mila Kunis — that the ageless Susan Sarandon as Isis (“as in the terrorist organisation”) had more of a role to play in the movie. The big burly Kahn is the most outrageous pleasure to be with even though much of her sentences are beeped out because of the F word. Second, the film has come in a bit early for Christmas so you really need to gather your spirits. 

Source: Sunday Pioneer, November 12, 2017