Snatched (2017)

As the critics have said, this isn't a good movie, but we laughed pretty much the whole time anyway as Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn play an immature daughter and uptight mother who get kidnapped on an Ecuadorean vacation. Schumer was last blogged for Trainwreck and this is Hawn's first movie in 15 years. Here are a select few of her credits: 64 episodes of Laugh-In, won an Oscar for Cactus Flower (1969), nominated for Private Benjamin (1980), also noted for There's a Girl in My Soup (1970), Butterflies Are Free (1972), Shampoo (1975), The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976), Foul Play (1978), Best Friends (1982), Wildcats (1986), Overboard (1987), Death Becomes Her (1992), The First Wives Club (1996), Everyone Says I Love You (1996), The Out-of-Towners (1999), and The Banger Sisters (2002), and she got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this very month, May 2017. Included in the large cast are Ike Barinholtz (most recently Sisters) as the agoraphobic brother and Wanda Sykes (Bad Moms) and Joan Cusack (Welcome to Me) as a couple vacationing at the same resort. Cusack is very funny in her small part.

While filming in Hawaii Schumer and Sykes did pop-up comedy shows that sold out in hours, with the proceeds going to charity.

Directed by Jonathan Levine (50/50), written by Katie Dippold (the Ghostbusters reboot), and produced by, among others, Paul Feig (last in these pages for directing Ghostbusters above, which he also produced), the movie suffers from mood swings--dirty jokes to action, farce to family dysfunction.

There are a lot of great songs (here are a list of 23 and a playlist of 16), especially Soy Yo by Bomba Estéreo, as well as a soundtrack by Chris Bacon (Source Code) and Theodore Shapiro (Ghostbusters).

Rotten Tomatoes was our first indication not to have high expectations, averaging 36% critics and 35 audiences. Right before the movie started, there was a trailer with Schumer and Hawn thanking us for watching it with other people in a theatre. Sorry to say, Jack and I can't totally recommend doing that when it'll be available streaming soon enough. But if you do happen to see it in one format or another (be sure to get an uncensored version), do watch at least the beginning of the end credits, as Hawn cuts loose on the dance floor.