I could almost copy and paste my blog about the original Bad Moms film here and it would be accurate for Bad Moms 2 too. The second time 'round, the film makers still know exactly who their audience is and have catered this film directly to them.
In this film we still have three mums of school-aged kids played by Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn who once again brings the LOLZ. Their mothers all come to town for Christmas and as we all know, forced family time at Christmas can be tricky*.
Spoiler alert - after said tricky-ness (they declare war on Christmas being such bloody hard work for mums), the women all come to a happy place with their mums resulting in a happy Christmas. (C'mon, that's not really a spoiler... you could have guessed!)
This film is not made for me (no kids) but nonetheless, I did enjoy some laughs especially at some of the slapstick humour. Based on the reaction of people around me (lots of groups of women who definitely have kids), this film gives them exactly what they want - laughs at the familiar challenges of motherhood, making them feel better about their own chaos waiting at home!
So if you're a mum with pretty mainstream taste, heck yes this one's for you. If you don't have kids and/or if your taste skews more toward arthouse films, then you should definitely give this one a miss.
Just as he gave the original Bad Moms a 2.5 star review, Leigh Paatsch has given this one 2.5 stars and just like I did with the first one, I reckon that assessment is fair.
Trailer here. In cinemas now.
* a f**king nightmare.