{"id":16743,"date":"2017-11-03T11:43:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T11:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=16743"},"modified":"2017-11-03T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T11:43:12","slug":"film-review-a-bad-moms-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/film-review-a-bad-moms-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: \u2018A Bad Moms Christmas\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Words: Tracey Popoola\u00a0| Subbing: Claudia Jackson<\/h6>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">The second instalment of the \u2018baddest mums in town\u2019 gains some laughter- but not quite as much as the original<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The reckless mothers are back again with the sequel to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bad Moms, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">which received positive reviews after it was released in 2016. In case you haven\u2019t seen it, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bad Moms <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">follows a trio of overworked and underappreciated mothers (played by Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn and Mila Kunis) who decide to run away from their endless responsibilities to indulge in some inappropriate and hilarious fun- with the help of alcoholic beverages.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BAD MOMS 2 Official Trailer (2017) A Bad Mom&#039;s Christmas, Mila Kunis Comedy Movie HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EQPr0sCjau0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This time <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Bad Moms Christmas <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">shows these ladies having to put up with own mothers for the festive season, with Cheryl Hines stepping in as the clingy mother that wishes she was her daughter\u2019s sister, Susan Sarandon playing the cool young at heart cowgirl and Christine Baranski as the uppity judgemental parent who needs to be shown a good time. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"> The montages of all the mothers having reckless fun include flirting with Santa and getting drunk at the local shopping centre, as well as assaulting and insulting innocent members of the public throughout the night- sound a bit familiar? There are also some sentimental moments, giving each character the opportunity to value those around them- despite the extra baggage that seems to come along.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/BadMoms\/status\/925203251552645120<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although this comedy is perfect for a mother\/daughter bonding session, it seems that the writers have fallen short from up keeping the brilliant punchlines that came with the first film. Perhaps the next one? \u00a0Find tickets <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/showtimes\/title\/tt6359956?ref_=ref_ext_NYT\"><b>HERE<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Score:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 3\/5<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words: Tracey Popoola\u00a0| Subbing: Claudia Jackson The second instalment of the \u2018baddest mums in town\u2019 gains some laughter- but not quite as much as the original The reckless mothers are back again with the sequel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,54],"tags":[1332,2128,2361,6756],"class_list":["post-16743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-film-2","tag-christmas","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-voiceoflondon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}