{"id":16738,"date":"2017-11-10T09:26:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrynewspapers.net\/?p=16738"},"modified":"2017-11-10T09:28:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:28:48","slug":"16738","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=16738","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Bad Moms Christmas\u2019 delivers plenty of laughs under the tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/perrynewspapers.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-10-A-Bad-Moms-Christmas-movie-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16739 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/perrynewspapers.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-10-A-Bad-Moms-Christmas-movie-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-10-A-Bad-Moms-Christmas-movie-poster.jpg 250w, https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-10-A-Bad-Moms-Christmas-movie-poster-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>By MARK VIOLA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In my review of the 2016 comedy, \u201cBad Moms,\u201d I called it a laugh-producing machine of a comedy even though I was obviously not a mom. Well, 16 months later, I\u2019m still not a mom, but I was laughing nearly as hard at \u201cA Bad Moms Christmas,\u201d which once again stars Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn as Amy, Kiki and Carla, three overworked women trying to be good moms in a world that sees anything less than perfect as bad.<\/p>\n<p>The magic of both movies is the fact that writers\/director Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, who also penned \u201cThe Hangover\u201d trilogy, manage to tell tales that are focused on moms, but are still relatable to anyone who has felt overworked and under-appreciated in their life and just wanted to quit trying to be perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MARK VIOLA In my review of the 2016 comedy, \u201cBad Moms,\u201d I called it a laugh-producing machine of a comedy even though I was obviously not a mom. Well, 16 months later, I\u2019m still not a mom, but I was laughing nearly as hard at \u201cA Bad Moms Christmas,\u201d which once again stars Mila [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-16738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-movie-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16741,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16738\/revisions\/16741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}