Bad Moms

By now, the bro-com genre has been around for a while. R-rated. Dudes. Dick jokes. We get it. There have been some good ones (“Wedding Crashers,” “Old School,” “The Hangover”). “Bridesmaids” proved you could do a female bro-com. “Bad Moms” (2016) took it one step further, timewise, by moving toward a more grown-up edge. Instead of weddings or a college frat, we get moms and a middle school PTA. But it’s still funny. And there’s still dick jokes (seriously). And Kathryn Hahn and Kristen Bell absolutely kill in supporting roles. And the metaphorical birth of a new genre: the mom-com.

A Bad Moms Christmas

Apparently, “Bad Moms” was such a surprise hit (as if it was still a surprise that in 2016, there was a market for R-rated shock-comedies starring women) that the makers got Mila Kunis and everyone else back together to crank out a sequel in a little more than a year. Even better (as in not better), it’s Christmas themed. So we have “A Bad Moms Christmas” (2017) trying to catch lightning in a chimney. But whereas the original had just the right amount of mommy pathos, this one overdoes things (sequels always do) by pitting the moms against their moms.