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BLU-RAY REVIEW:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Street 2\/6\/18;
\n<\/strong>Universal;
\n<\/strong>Comedy;
\n<\/strong>Box Office $72.11 million;
\n<\/strong>$29.98 DVD, $34.98 Blu-ray;
\n<\/strong>Rated \u2018R\u2019 for crude sexual content and language throughout, and some drug use.
\n<\/strong>Stars Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines, Susan Sarandon, Jay Hernandez, Justin Hartley, Peter Gallagher, Wanda Sykes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the popularity of 2016\u2019s Bad Moms<\/em> ($184 million worldwide box office against a $20 million budget) all but ensuring a sequel, the writer-director team of Jon Lucas and Scott Moore managed to have a follow-up produced and in theaters a bit over a year later. The quick turnaround is something of a throwback to the halcyon days of Hollywood, where quickie sequels were much easier to pull off.<\/p>\n

Where the first film dealt with the rigors of balancing work, home and school, the sequel transplants the rowdy moms into a holiday setting, and cranks up the proverbial heat by bringing in their moms for a little added pressure.<\/p>\n

I suppose the idea is to inform on what makes the core moms tick and possibly led them to snap in the first movie. While the story is driven by this newfound family angst, it often falls back on a string of sketches tied to family-related Christmas settings. The film offers a smattering of caricature and broad ruminations on the holiday season, with some gags that work better in concept than execution.<\/p>\n

Christine Baranski in particular, as mom to Mila Kunis\u2019 Amy, comes across like a less-intense version of Leonard\u2019s mom from \u201cThe Big Bang Theory,\u201d which may have been a primary reason they sought her out for this.<\/p>\n

The best pairing is Susan Sarandon and Kathryn Hahn, if only because their characters are the ones with the fewest inhibitions \u2014\u00a0the apple not falling too far from the tree in that regard.<\/p>\n

Fans of the raunchiness that set the original film apart need not worry, as the jokes are often as crude as they were in that one, if not more so.<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, the same multigenerational premise was used for the guys in the Daddy\u2019s Home<\/em> sequel around the same time, with similar results.<\/p>\n

The Blu-ray is rather sparse in its extras, offering a seven-minute gag reel, four minutes of alternate takes and a two-and-a-half-minute music video featuring the production crew dancing along to an R&B holiday song used in the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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