Snatched
After being dumped by her boyfriend, Emily (Amy Schumer) needs to find someone to take on a non-refundable holiday to Ecuador. Her mother Linda (Goldie Hawn) reluctantly agrees, despite certain reservations. Her fears prove to be well founded as the two women are kidnapped. Emily and Linda escape and must make their way to the US consulate in Bogota with their captors in pursuit.
Hawn and Schumer have decent chemistry together and I was surprised to hear that it was Hawn's first screen appearance for 15 years. I was disappointed by Schumer's last film "Trainwreck" and the jury's still out on whether her undeniable stand-up success can translate to Hollywood, but this is a solid effort. There are a handful of decent laughs including the outstanding line "When I got divorced, I thought that I'd never have sex again. And I was right". There's some more off colour stuff too, but I've seen worse.
Much of the film's humour comes from Emily's brother and Linda's son Jeffrey (Ike Barinholtz) attempting to track them down via contacting an increasingly irate State Department official. Jeffrey is a ludicrous caricature of a stay at home momma's boy (he insists on calling her "Ma-ma" with the emphasis on the second syllable) but these sequences are rather good fun.
Meanwhile, positive morals about the importance of family, respect for other cultures and living a great life for its own sake and not for the sake of social media are all present and correct. Snatched isn't going to set the world on fire but it's a perfectly fine 90 minutes. I wouldn't pay to see it but it's worth a look when it comes around on Sky Movies.
Hawn and Schumer have decent chemistry together and I was surprised to hear that it was Hawn's first screen appearance for 15 years. I was disappointed by Schumer's last film "Trainwreck" and the jury's still out on whether her undeniable stand-up success can translate to Hollywood, but this is a solid effort. There are a handful of decent laughs including the outstanding line "When I got divorced, I thought that I'd never have sex again. And I was right". There's some more off colour stuff too, but I've seen worse.
Much of the film's humour comes from Emily's brother and Linda's son Jeffrey (Ike Barinholtz) attempting to track them down via contacting an increasingly irate State Department official. Jeffrey is a ludicrous caricature of a stay at home momma's boy (he insists on calling her "Ma-ma" with the emphasis on the second syllable) but these sequences are rather good fun.
Meanwhile, positive morals about the importance of family, respect for other cultures and living a great life for its own sake and not for the sake of social media are all present and correct. Snatched isn't going to set the world on fire but it's a perfectly fine 90 minutes. I wouldn't pay to see it but it's worth a look when it comes around on Sky Movies.
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