A Bad Moms Christmas Review: 3 Ups & 6 Downs

3. The Terrible Editing & Direction

It's abundantly clear that heavy improvisation was allowed on the movie's set, which is typically good for a comedy, except that directors Scott Moore and Jon Lucas couldn't find a way to shape these disparate takes into a coherent whole.

Shots are spliced together without much concern for logic or continuity: characters will react nonsensically to a previous one-liner and often dialogue that clearly doesn't even occur in the same exchange is awkwardly edited in to try and make it fit...somehow.

Such is the problem with improv: it can greatly enhance a movie with the right talents at hand, but it can also be a nightmare as far as editing and overall production quality are concerned. Here the jumpy, jarring editing becomes frequently distracting.