A Bad Moms Christmas Review: 3 Ups & 6 Downs

5. Too. Many. Montages.

The musical montage has become an increasingly tiresome cliche in comedies over the last few years, a lazy device typically intended to show the central characters goofing off and having fun, often by way of alcohol-fuelled shenanigans.

Well, A Bad Moms Christmas isn't content to force viewers to sit through just one, two or even three montages: there are about half-a-dozen of them in this movie, even one featuring an impromptu dodgeball match, and they quickly become more eye-rolling than entertaining.

There's only so much slow-mo a person can take before they want the plot to just move on, and here the use of music feels like a rather slack attempt to inject some added excitement into scenes that otherwise aren't really up to much.