Maybe if the women in the film were more than “hot mom with gross husband,” “slutty mom,” and “sad, lonely, stay-at-home mom,” then this film could have worked as a humorous critique of sexist parenting standards.
The film never explores this idea outright, but the underlying, unspoken understanding is that being a mom is impossible “in this day and age” because women are expected to have it all. “In this day and age, it’s impossible to be a good mom,” Amy says repeatedly, and it’s easy to see why she feels that way, given that her husband is entirely useless and she’s bought into the idea that she must be perfect. Amy, Carla, and Kiki bond over their mom-dom, confess their exhaustion with the parent-teacher association, commiserate about the terrible men in their lives, and decide to live a little for themselves for once.
But if you’re looking for either insightful critique or any funny jokes at all, look elsewhere.īad Moms, written and directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore-who also wrote The Hangover films-centers on Amy (played by Mila Kunis), an overworked, underappreciated mom of two with a schlubby, couch-potato husband who feels like her “third child.” He helps with exactly zero percent of the housework or child rearing.Īmy meets wild single mom Carla (Kathryn Hahn) and stay-at-home mom Kiki (Kristen Bell), whose husband is a miserable, sexist trash heap.
New film Bad Moms is marketed as a comedy that pushes back against stereotypes of motherhood and the burdens of modern work-life balance.
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