Jon Lucas and Scott Moore direct Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn in this comedy where moms rejected by the PTA unite and rebel… mainly by drinking.

An absolute waste of a great and spirited cast all of whom have carried worse premises than this. The jokes just aren’t there, everything spewed out of the mouths of the hardworking comic actresses feels mechanically like what male writers think dirty talking moms might say, when all we really want is punchlines. Instead we get a lot of loud soundtracked montages and pratfalls. Now the drinking ones do actually have a surreal OTT quality that raises chuckles but they act like signal flares in an ocean of mediocrity. The film also exists in an alternate reality where characters seem to operate under short term memory loss and there are no real world consequences. The most troubling moment comes at wrap up, when in a sop for false sisterhood, Kunis befriends Christina Applegate’s brilliantly boo hiss villian mom AFTER SHE PLANTED DRUGS IN HER DAUGHTER’S SCHOOL LOCKER ONLY SCENES EARLIER. Add to that a joke free sequence where Mila struggles to pick up a man in a single’s bar because she keeps revealing she has kids…. yeah right, it’s Mila Fucking Kunis… And you have a comedy that might as well be set on Mongo it is so blandly not of this world.

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