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    Kinja!Jesse Hassenger
    12/31/69 6:00pm

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      onlytheknockerKinja!
      7/28/16 2:06am

      I can only think of Last Vegas.

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      MookalakaiKinja!
      7/28/16 2:22am

      Probably not as good as The Last of the Mohicans.

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    CGI PinataJesse Hassenger
    7/28/16 12:21am

    I'm pretty bummed that this is apparently mediocre. The trailers weren't great, but the cast is aces. I just want Kathryn Hahn to be recognized as the insanely talented person that she is.

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      Freddie JerkuryCGI Pinata
      7/28/16 12:32am

      No shit! She is an unsung hero!

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      The ManipulatorCGI Pinata
      7/28/16 1:29am

      I think comedy people know that Hahn is a treasure, which is why she's been popping up all over the place the last few years.

      Based on her work on Transparent, she's also deserving of a really great dramatic role.

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    Karl Hungus 53Jesse Hassenger
    7/29/16 6:38am

    "(who are also beneficiaries of the unfortunate fact that even if a movie has half a dozen major female characters outnumbering the men, it’ll probably still be dudes running things behind the camera)"

    Really? Ok, fine, we'll do it your way. Attention ALL Men, it's time to go cut your cocks off and the go sit the fuck at home. We are officially not allowed to do anything. So we'll just go home and be the lazy sacks of shit that we are all already made out to be and let everybody else accomplish everything. Fuck it.

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      jesseKarl Hungus 53
      7/29/16 8:41am

      Awwwwwwwwwwww

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      et11robotjesse
      7/29/16 9:40am

      Not ALL men!

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    The Ghost of Eazy EJesse Hassenger
    7/28/16 5:49am

    Can we move past "women behaving that frat brahs is inherently funny?" I like Bell and Applegate as comedic actresses and wish they'd get better stuff to work with because this look bad in the not very good way.

    Why is there still the assumption that mothers do everything? It's no longer 1950 and in every family I know personally, both take care for the kids and work around the house

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      AlexorellaThe Ghost of Eazy E
      7/28/16 7:43am

      We're trying to make America great again over here, and that means ladies do lady things.

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      The Ghost of Eazy EAlexorella
      7/28/16 8:20am

      Not at all. I don't find it funny when anyone acts that way, but there's now an entire theory of comedy that suggests it's inherently funny for women to act like Mitch, Tad, Tyler, and the douche brahs down at KEG House

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    CWMossJesse Hassenger
    7/28/16 8:34am

    I keep seeing the 15-second trailer over and over and it's really hard to take. But there's a joke I don't understand. The screeching bad moms suggest running if you see an uncircumcised penis, and compare it to a gun laying the street. Why? Because it could have been used in a crime?

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      DJ Jazzy Jeff MangumCWMoss
      7/28/16 9:26am

      Because it's 5000 years ago and the sky father made a deal with a local tribe for protection if they mutilate their genitals.

      SPOILER: He does not keep his side of the bargain.

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      firefly007CWMoss
      7/28/16 11:01am

      I saw this movie and the joke is that an uncircumcised penis is so weird and alien (and gross) that, much like a gun laying in the street, you don't want nothin' to do with that shit. The entire scene that particular joke is in is pretty funny though.

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    GenjiJesse Hassenger
    7/28/16 6:45am

    Bad Santa was bad. I'm not sure how a guy who wears a Santa suit but is never actually Santa doing mildly naughty things counts as transgressive. Especially when you have a kid so covered with sentimental tags that you don't dare laugh at him and a little person who always gets the last word. Nothing anit-p.c. or dangerous there. It was pretty generic Hollywood schlock. Never saw any of the other Bads.

    Does anyone other than the reviewer consider these a series? And aren't the lack of lawsuits more likely because it's impossible to sue someone over the use of an adjective in a title?

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      darquegkGenji
      7/28/16 8:11am

      Perhaps you'd like my low-budget, edgier knockoff, THE DAY SANTA SAID NI***R.

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      jesseGenji
      7/28/16 8:45am

      I don't think that a lot of audiences "didn't dare" laugh at the kid in Bad Santa. He's endearing, but also very funny.

      I may not have been ENTIRELY serious in deeming these movies a cooperative franchise.

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    SomeRandomGuyOnTheInternetJesse Hassenger
    7/28/16 12:34am

    Oh, look, it's Kathryn Hahn in the most Kathryn Hahn-iest role of her career: an obligatory best friend so forcibly crude and outrageous, you'll forget her character almost instantly!

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      NemrexSomeRandomGuyOnTheInternet
      7/28/16 1:11am

      Who now?

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      The Ghost of Eazy ESomeRandomGuyOnTheInternet
      7/28/16 5:52am

      The one who slept with Jim Baker?

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    onlytheknockerJesse Hassenger
    7/28/16 2:03am

    You forgot Bad Milo! in your list of "Bad"s.

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      Mr. Deltoidonlytheknocker
      7/28/16 2:11am

      Was that the sequel to Bad Otis!?

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      onlytheknockerMr. Deltoid
      7/28/16 2:12am

      I googled Bad Otis and got a bunch of links to bikes.

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    Mr. DeltoidJesse Hassenger
    7/28/16 2:14am

    As a 90%-single parent of two without plenty of money, this would probably annoy the hell out of me.

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      MookalakaiMr. Deltoid
      7/28/16 2:23am

      Well then it's a lucky coincidence you'll never have the time to actually go see it in theaters.

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      Mr. DeltoidMookalakai
      7/28/16 2:31am

      That's actually not much of an exaggeration. I have only one night a week free, and not even every week. I usually spend it drinking a couple of (cheap) beers with a non-kids' movie at home, then pass out from exhaustion.

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    Kinja!Jesse Hassenger
    12/31/69 6:00pm

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      darquegkKinja!
      7/28/16 8:07am

      I got to see John Pinette as Edna in "Hairspray" shortly before his death. There's a bit in Act 2 where Edna and her husband pause the show to do a little comedic riffing with each other. Usually this is a scripted bit in the style of old Carol Burnett show comedy, but when a real comedian is playing one or the other, they let them off the chain to do their own thing for a bit. Pinette was side-splitting.

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      Bob Hope is GodKinja!
      7/28/16 10:51pm

      Just look at Chris Christie and Orson Welles.

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