“I’ll hold my but crack open for you any time you want Carla”
Absolute Cinema.
I’m giggling and kicking my feet
Genuinely, this review might be the downfall of my very serious letterboxd career but how tf is this such a badly received film???
I feel like a lot of people just generally hate the (yes, very) tacky and stupid humor. And like, fair. It is hard to see good things in a movie when you are already turned off by its whole atmosphere. I saw someone saying that these are the kind of jokes only 13 year old boys would laugh at and honestly? I agree. Thats what makes it even funnier. I have a giant meta humor, and all the campy “badass” montages that were super cringe and the thousand unnecessary, tasteless penis jokes, that were all delivered with such total commitment worked for me because of that exact reason. It was so overcommitted it looped back around into greatness. So, objectively, yeah the humor was awful. But thats what makes it so funny. I was laughing my ass of istg.
But unfortunately I was not only laughing. Never in my life would I have thought that a terribly received Christmas comedy with millennial wine mom humor would make me fucking cry. But like, these relationships the moms had with their own moms were just so sad istg. And idk, maybe I missed something and the movie handled the topic terribly. But I personally just saw three, very individually flawed mother daughter relationships that all felt realistic, devastating and very beautifully portrayed. Like, the moms and the daughters all mirror each other, in their relationships to their trio and in their relationship with their child/mom and it was just so beautiful I bawled at the church scene ahhh. And like the movie talked about negligence, generational trauma, dependence, living your life through your kid and I genuinely think they incorporated these topics in such a smart but also meaningful way. I mean bro am I the only one seeing this?!?!?!
What is even wilder to me is that people consider the first movie (which was also not that well received) to be leagues above the second one. Like whattt??!?!?! Bad Moms walked so A Bad Moms Christmas could RUN. The first one was about the stress of being a mother, that we should appreciate these people and how invisible their efforts can be. That was definitely a great conversation to have in a movie however it does not compare to the shit load of deep conflicts the second one tackles.
And don’t get me started on the cast omg. I know, a cast should never be the reason to like a movie but holy shit. The leads for the first one were already phenomenal. And then they bring in fucking Christine Baranski (one of my lesbian awakenings) and, the queen, Susan Sarandon herself. I mean come on. This cast is my personal queer heaven. 7yo me would be freaking out if she knew there was a movie with all these actresses that made her feel super enthusiastic for some reason.
Bottom line for me is: the worst thing a movie can do is be boring. And ya’ll gotta admit, no matter how much you hate this movie: it is anything but boring. And for me it worked REALLY well. Like concerningly well despite me going into it expecting to hate it.
So, come with your pitchforks, burn me at the stake, but I will stand by it: A Bad Moms Christmas is an amazing movie. Period.
“I’ll hold my but crack open for you any time you want Carla”
Absolute Cinema.
I’m giggling and kicking my feet
Genuinely, this review might be the downfall of my very serious letterboxd career but how tf is this such a badly received film???
I feel like a lot of people just generally hate the (yes, very) tacky and stupid humor. And like, fair. It is hard to see good things in a movie when you are already turned off by its whole atmosphere. I saw someone saying that these are the kind of jokes only 13 year old boys would laugh at and honestly? I agree. Thats what makes it even funnier. I have a giant meta humor, and all the campy “badass” montages that were super cringe and the thousand unnecessary, tasteless penis jokes, that were all delivered with such total commitment worked for me because of that exact reason. It was so overcommitted it looped back around into greatness. So, objectively, yeah the humor was awful. But thats what makes it so funny. I was laughing my ass of istg.
But unfortunately I was not only laughing. Never in my life would I have thought that a terribly received Christmas comedy with millennial wine mom humor would make me fucking cry. But like, these relationships the moms had with their own moms were just so sad istg. And idk, maybe I missed something and the movie handled the topic terribly. But I personally just saw three, very individually flawed mother daughter relationships that all felt realistic, devastating and very beautifully portrayed. Like, the moms and the daughters all mirror each other, in their relationships to their trio and in their relationship with their child/mom and it was just so beautiful I bawled at the church scene ahhh. And like the movie talked about negligence, generational trauma, dependence, living your life through your kid and I genuinely think they incorporated these topics in such a smart but also meaningful way. I mean bro am I the only one seeing this?!?!?!
What is even wilder to me is that people consider the first movie (which was also not that well received) to be leagues above the second one. Like whattt??!?!?! Bad Moms walked so A Bad Moms Christmas could RUN. The first one was about the stress of being a mother, that we should appreciate these people and how invisible their efforts can be. That was definitely a great conversation to have in a movie however it does not compare to the shit load of deep conflicts the second one tackles.
And don’t get me started on the cast omg. I know, a cast should never be the reason to like a movie but holy shit. The leads for the first one were already phenomenal. And then they bring in fucking Christine Baranski (one of my lesbian awakenings) and, the queen, Susan Sarandon herself. I mean come on. This cast is my personal queer heaven. 7yo me would be freaking out if she knew there was a movie with all these actresses that made her feel super enthusiastic for some reason.
Bottom line for me is: the worst thing a movie can do is be boring. And ya’ll gotta admit, no matter how much you hate this movie: it is anything but boring. And for me it worked REALLY well. Like concerningly well despite me going into it expecting to hate it.
So, come with your pitchforks, burn me at the stake, but I will stand by it: A Bad Moms Christmas is an amazing movie. Period.
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