‘Bad Moms,’ a Comedy of Outrage Pegged to Smother Mothers

Review: ‘Bad Moms,’ a Comedy of Outrage Pegged to Smother Mothers

From left, Annie Mumolo, Jada Pinkett Smith and Christina Applegate in “Bad Moms.” Credit Michele K. Short

Are women trending? I guess they are! Suddenly, they seem to be just everywhere, onscreen and offscreen, in comic-book flicks, in childhood-destroying comedies and even in the presidential race. The latest big-screen evidence that women are hot (kind of), and not simply in a frat-boy way, is “Bad Moms,” a funny, giddy, sentimental laugh-in from Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, who wrote the 2009 hit comedy “The Hangover.” That movie pretty much ignored the ladies but made enough money to spawn another smash and a second, less successful sequel that may have killed off the franchise.