Bad Moms 2

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Movie
German title Bad Moms 2
Original title A Bad Moms Christmas
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2017
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Jon Lucas ,
Scott Moore
script Jon Lucas,
Scott Moore
production Suzanne Todd
music Christopher Lennertz
camera Mitchell Amundsen
cut James Thomas
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chronology

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Bad Moms

Bad Moms 2 (Original title: A Bad Moms Christmas ) is an American comedy film ( episode film ) directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore from 2017 . The film is the sequel to Bad Moms (2016).

action

The three mothers Amy, Kiki and Carla rebel against the expectations that are placed on mothers during the Christmas season. In addition, their own mothers visit over the holidays.

Amy Mitchell, who now has a happy relationship with Jessie Harkness, is looking forward to a simple and uncomplicated Christmas party. However, this project seems doomed to failure, as her own, "overly critical" mother Ruth announces herself for the holidays. Meanwhile, Kiki and her four children continue to be overly stressed, but now receives significantly more support from her husband Kent. Her own "terribly clinging" mother has announced that she will be coming to the party, but she is - in contrast to Amy's mother - at the door earlier than advertised and intends to spend a total of three weeks with her daughter, who thinks her love is overwhelming, to spend. Carla Dunkler, the third in the group of "Bad Moms", is also visited over the Christmas holidays by her "rotting, gambling addicted" mother Isis, who wants to spend time with her daughter for the first time in a long time.

After the mothers have appeared on the scene, Amy, Kiki and Carla meet in a shopping center, talk about the pressure from the holidays and make a joint pact to "win back Christmas". They get drunk together and then steal a Christmas tree from a shop.

Amy brings her mother Ruth, who wants to turn the simply planned Christmas party into a spectacle, and the rest of the family to a trampoline park instead of the Russian performance of the nutcracker . There she meets with Kiki and Carla and their families. The mothers of the bad moms meet and chat there, while the bad moms have fun with their children.

At work, the hair removal service provider Carla meets the erotic dancer Ty Swindle, who takes part in a "Sexy Santa Contest" and successfully requests her to be his date. Kiki, however, cannot bear the overprotective nature of her mother Sandy, which is why they have a session with Dr. Elizabeth Karl books. But instead of a constructive solution at the regular end of the session, there is an early ending, as Kiki confronts her mother with being too close and she therefore breaks off the session, while the therapist blames Kiki for her mother's madness.

Amy and Kiki also attend the “Sexy Santa Contest” with Carla, where Ty impresses all the women present with his skills. To everyone's surprise, Isis gets up on the bar and begins to dance with Ty, which Carla tries to stop, which leads to a brief fight between the two women. On their way home, the older of the younger admits that she needs money for an investment, which the younger believes is unbelievable due to her mother's gambling addiction. Despite the assumption that the mother will disappear after receiving the money, the desired amount is awarded.

When it is finally Christmas Eve , Sandy, who is very fixated on her daughter, says that she made a cash offer for the house next to Kikis so that she could live next to her. At this point it breaks out from Kiki that her mother cannot live next door and that she needs her place, whereupon Sandy leaves the room in tears. Amy also has a Christmas crisis because her mother, contrary to the daughter's original plan, invited a group of strangers to a quiet, contemplative party. Like her friend Kiki, Amy loses her temper and urges the uninvited guests to leave their home and then her mother to go out of her life forever. Their children Jane and Dylan, however, cannot understand their mother's attitude and react angrily to the outbreak. At the same time, Carla discovers a message from her mother Isis that she - as previously feared - had left with the money she had borrowed.

Ruth attends midnight mass in the church, where - surprisingly - she receives support from the other two mothers Sandy and Isis. The three criticize each other for their behavior towards the daughters and recognize their own mistakes. For a discussion, Amy's father Hank visits his daughter to make her understand her mother's character - she loves her daughter unconditionally, but at the same time is always unsure whether she is a good mother. With this knowledge, Amy also visits the church to - ultimately successfully - speak to Ruth. As a result, Amy deviates from her plan for a quiet, simple Christmas party and wants to involve her mother in the organization at short notice, since an adequate celebration is only possible together. So the two of them rush home to decorate the house.

On the morning of Christmas Day , Amy's children Jane and Dylan discover Ruth's return, the decorated house and the presents. There is also a conciliatory end with Kiki and her mother Sandy, who wants to sell the neighboring house again. The third bad mom , Carla, finally visits her mother Isis, who is looking for a serious change in her previously irresponsible life and has looked for a job in the previously visited trampoline park.

At the end all families meet again and the mothers of the bad moms first announce their friendship and then an advised trip to Las Vegas.

production

In December 2016, the announcement was made that the cast of the first part of Bad Moms would get together again in their original roles, that the content should be about Christmas and that the film should start in the USA on November 3, 2017.

Filming began on May 1, 2017 in Atlanta , Georgia . The total production budget was USD 28 million.

All scenes were shot in "real" locations, the crew did not resort to studio setups. The mall scene was filmed primarily at Phipps Plaza Mall in Atlanta, plus Lenox Mall and Cumberland Mall . The recordings in the trampoline park were filmed in the Sky Zone Trampoline Park from June 7th to 9th, 2017 in Newnan . Amy's massive Christmas decorated house is in Candler Park, a suburb of Atlanta. The Episcopal Church , where part of the action takes place towards the end of the film, is the All Saints Episcopal in Midtown Atlanta.

In order to simulate a wintry-Christmas Chicago with spring-like to summery temperatures in Atlanta, "snow" was produced and distributed from 25 cubic meters of shredded, biodegradable paper for some of the recordings, while the producers relied on a local company for another part of the recordings , which produced 100 tons of artificial snow and delivered it in blocks. These in turn were chopped up in choppers and then distributed with shovels.

In the United States, the film, originally announced for November 3, was released on November 1, 2017 in order to avoid a direct conflict with the also relaunching Thor: Decision Day . The cinema release in Germany was on November 9, 2017, as was the case in German-speaking Switzerland. It was shown there for eight weeks and attracted almost 52,000 viewers. In the French-speaking part of Switzerland , however, the film was only shown for two weeks and was seen by almost 8,500 viewers. In the US, the film grossed $ 72.1 million at the box office and another $ 55.6 million at the worldwide box office, for a cumulative box office of $ 127.7 million. The predecessor came up with a total result of 180 million USD.

criticism

  • In the United States, the MPAA gave the film an R rating for consistently gross sexual content and language as well as intermittent drug use. So (including variations) the word fuck was used over 35 times . The film was approved for ages 15 and over by the British BBFC .
  • On Rotten Tomatoes , the film recorded on the basis of 121 analyzed reviews a value of 31% on the Tomatometer and the core conclusion that although there were twice as many mothers, but only half of laughs. Of just over 13,000 users, 45% gave three and a half or more stars.
  • The reaction of the television magazine Prisma was similarly different : While the editorial team only gave one of five possible stars, the cumulative reader opinion was three stars.
  • The German service Filmstarts.de was not very pleased with the work, because in the first half of the film it still followed “the tried and tested, provocative“ Bad Moms ”formula of its predecessor”, and afterwards “despite the rough jokes [...] continued to grow more and more a conventionally sweet family holiday comedy “wandele. In addition, the satirical level and the bite of the predecessor were "unfortunately lost" because the makers apparently had too much respect for Christmas.
  • The New Zealand media outlet Biggie praised the performance of the cast, who would collectively bring the plot of the film to life. On the fundamental level, however, it was criticized that the dynamics and chemistry between the bad moms and their mothers were not right and only lasted for a short time and that the sometimes rough humor only partially suited the intended mood of the film and the individual characters. At the level of detail, too, there are many small spots, so that the actual intention to show a realistic film is undone by obvious imagination - e.g. B. by serving alcohol in food courts , a dodgeball field for adults in the trampoline park and above all a house bought spontaneously or impulsively with cash that was actually not for sale.
  • The reviewer from Kinozeit.de criticized the fact that the mothers of the Bad Moms are “even more one-dimensional”, that the momentum of the predecessor “fades away in too many individual episodes” that “towards the end forget the comedy because of the sheer Christmassy sentimentality”.
  • Lukas Stern from the Hamburg weekly magazine Der Spiegel , on the other hand, saw a film in which the directors' “good staging instinct” is evident in “breaking the boundaries of the body, breaking disruptions in the mother-child relationship into excessive caricatures”. Already in the introduction to his text he judged that against "Christmas stress and perfection terror" only help to "misbehave" and this would "with six excellent comedians [...] become a festival of delimitation".
  • On ChristianAnswers.net believers expressly of the film, a work of "spiritual darkness" ( "spiritual darkness") discouraged. While the official brief description of the rental company and the poster advertise a comparatively "healthy" ("wholesome") and "innocent" ("innocent") film, it is actually just a "bad so-called" Christmas film "" ("foul so- called “Christmas” movie “) . As a moral judgment was "extremely offensive" ( "extremely offensive") like.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Bad Moms 2 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 172717 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for Bad Moms 2 . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ a b c Thomas: Review: Bad Moms 2 (cinema) - film criticism - screen reporter. In: leinwandreporter.com. November 6, 2017, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Ross A. Lincoln: 'Bad Moms Christmas' Is A Go: Comedy Sequel Reuniting Original Cast Set For November 2017 Release. In: deadline.com. December 23, 2016, accessed March 3, 2019 .
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  6. ^ A Bad Moms Christmas (2017). In: boxofficemojo.com. January 11, 2018, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Sonja: FILM REVIEW: A Bad Moms Christmas (2017) - filmed in Atlanta, USA. In: filmfantravel.com. December 19, 2018, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  8. ^ Mary Caldwell: Now casting: Mila Kunis movie seeking extras for SkyZone scene. In: ajc.com. June 2, 2017, accessed March 3, 2019 .
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  12. ↑ Bad Moms 2. In: hitparade.ch. Retrieved March 3, 2019 .
  13. ^ A Bad Moms Christmas (2017) - Financial Information. In: the-numbers.com. November 24, 2017, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  14. ↑ a b A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)… review and / or viewer comments. In: christiananswers.net. Accessed March 3, 2019 .
  15. ↑ A BAD MOM'S CHRISTMAS. In: bbfc.co.uk. Accessed March 3, 2019 .
  16. ^ A Bad Moms Christmas (2017). In: rottentomatoes.com. October 31, 2017, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Bad Moms 2: The review of the film. In: prisma.de. November 9, 2017, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Christoph Petersen: The film starts criticism of Bad Moms 2. In: filmstarts.de. November 2, 2017, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Leonardo Law: Bad Moms 2: Movie Review. In: biggie.co.nz. November 7, 2017, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Falk Straub: Bad Moms 2 (2017). In: kino-zeit.de. November 9, 2017, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Lukas Stern: Comedy "Bad Moms 2": Wild Christmas. In: Spiegel Online . November 7, 2017, accessed March 3, 2019 .