First off, the reviews (if you can call them that) here are ridiculously biased and definitely come from a place of pure disdain for Amy Schumer. While I do feel the critiques of her are warranted to an extent, I also feel that the film is not going to get a fair shake. So here is my attempt at giving Snatched a fair review. First off, I saw this last night at a preview screening and I'd be lying if I said I didn't chuckle a couple times. I did. Goldie Hawn being back on screen is awesome to see and to see her doing comedy again was a huge selling point. However, despite a few chuckles and me being enamored with Hawn's return to the silver screen, Snatched is simply a dismal film. It isn't just because of Amy Schumer that this film is bad, it is a joint effort by all parties including Goldie Hawn.

The film begins in slapstick fashion by introducing us to Schumer and Hawn's mother- daughter team. I'm not gonna lie, the two have some serious chemistry in their respected roles. The only problem is that Schumer & Co. rely on gross out humor and even lift some jokes from certain cult comedies to make their film work. The script is barely there and hopes that Schumer can fill in the gaps with stupid jokes rather than some on-the-surface character development. Instead, the film brushes through topics ranging from promiscuous sex to human trafficking to the power of a mother-daughter bond. These are all topics that could carry a film and at every chance the film gets, it fails to capitalize on any of those themes.

In between vaginal jokes and gags from Schumer and some scenes of pretty hardcore violence for a comedy, there is barely anything to make us want these characters to succeed other than they are mother and daughter. While I can't exactly relate to that relationship, I can tell the filmmakers were hoping that that familiar bond would be enough to carry the film. Guess what, it's not. They're poorly written characters, which is a shame because Schumer and Hawn do make quite the dynamic duo and when it works, it works. The big problem here is that it works far too little and there is far too much wrong with the film overall to really recommend it.

Emily Middleton (Amy Schumer) loses her job and gets dumped by her rocker boyfriend. With no one to take on her non-refundable trip to Ecuador, she decides to take her cautious divorced mother Linda (Goldie Hawn) who lives with her adult son Jeffrey (Ike Barinholtz). The girls meet fellow vacationers Ruth (Wanda Sykes) and her platonic, tongueless, former special op friend Barb (Joan Cusack). Emily falls for a suave local who gets them kidnapped and smuggled to Columbia. It's real bad news for the bad guys.

Emily is mean-spirited. This detracts from the comedy of Amy Schumer. There is a balance between a self-obsessed meanie and a clueless idiot. This is too far into meanness. Classic comedic IT girl Goldie Hawn is mostly flat here. The Whale Cum joke is ridiculously stupid. The tapeworm is grotesque without humor. Sykes and Cusack aren't that funny. Jeffrey is an unnecessary secondary character. This comedy is more miss than hit.

"Snatched" is one of those 2017 comedies that many people were actually really curious about because it marked a comeback for Oscar winner Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer has been riding a wave of success before it came out. But this also makes the outcome even more disappointing. Maybe director Levine should have worked on the script this time too as what Katie Dippold offers audiences here is even lower than some of the other pretty bad stuff she did in recent years like the new Ghostbusters film. But back to this one here. It runs for 90 minutes and this already includes a great deal of credits, so it luckily not a really long film. The only somewhat positive thing I can say here is that the supporting cast was decent at times and as a consequence the story away from the two main characters was entertaining, even funny sometimes like the Black man at the phone, even if the story messed up with him too that he actually came at the very end.

But sadly this cannot make up for how rotten this film is at its very core. Schumer is genuinely unbearable to watch and honestly the way her character looked to me in this film, I can only applaud that Asian guy for breaking up with her early. Painful to watch really. Schumer managed to make scenes like the horrible titslip scene look even worse than it was written, which is so bad that it almost sounds impossible, but they found a way. And there are more examples really. The way in which that handsome bad guy is eventually sexually interested in the central character was a really bad joke too, just like how Schumer's character leaves the room then dancing with her butt. And she also gets no new boyfriend, at least not explicitly stated, even if the final scene gives us such an option, as the mother-daughter connection should be at the center of the film here. But it never is. On the contrary, you cannot take that part seriously at all and this was one of the most important components of the film. So wherever there is ambition in here, there is failure. The talent simply isn't there. Hawn seems like a shadow of her former self and I am not even a fan of her. Those who are really want to skip this film or they will be really sad. Byx the way, everybody else should skip it too. Schumer is a great front runner for the next Razzie Awards with what we see her and yes overall I think she sucked even more than Lippold. An unwatchable film for the most part. Keep your safety distance as I highly recommend not to watch it.