Amy Mitchell (Mila Kunis) is an everyday working mother who struggles to balance her part time job as a sales rep for a new age coffee company, where she is the oldest employee, with the demands of her children’s lives in school runs, homework issues, extra curricular activities and the all important PTA meetings. When she catches her husband Mike (David Walton) with another woman via Web Cam she throws him out which only adds to her workload and after one particularly bad day when she attends an emergency PTA meeting which turns out to be about the upcoming bake sale she loses it completely, decides that she has had enough, speaks up against the head of the association Gwendolyn (Christina Applegate) and quits.

As she is having a drink at a nearby bar she recognises Carla (Kathryn Hahn), another mother from the school and they are also joined by Kiki (Kristen Bell) who was impressed with the way Amy stood up for herself. The three woman end up getting extremely drunk and decide that instead of being the mothers they are expected to be they are going to be moms that do what they want to do and enjoy life.

Directors Scott Moore and Jon Lucas, who also brought us the Hangover, do a good job in taking the mix of the everyday expectations of life and mixing them with the inevitable boozy parties we always see in movies of this genre without ever fully taking the film either way which breaks the movie up well. The acting is spot on with Applegate superb as the all seeing head of the PTA who runs the school as she pleases and is feared by all. Kunis and Bell are great as the frustrated mothers but they are all outshone by Hahn as the sex mad, alcoholic Carla. She absolutely steals the show and had me in stitches with her antics with a role that reminded me of her character of Alice Huff in Step Brothers.

Despite all the humour and bad behaviour there is some good character development and social commentary hidden behind the mania and it is a testament to the skill of all involved that the friendship and the bitchiness felt real and it felt like all the cast really developed a chemistry as felt like everybody was having fun. Although it runs out a steam a little in the final third the film still never felt like it dragged even if it took the obvious route in the end when it would have been nice to see something unpredictable given the nature of the rest of the movie.

Better than both of the other female driven comedies I have recently watched (Bad Neighbours 2 and Ghostbusters), Bad Moms is well worth checking out if you’re a comedy fan and watch out for the scene with the marriage guidance counsellor which, while short, is hilarious thanks to the reactions of Wanda Sykes as Amy and Mike verbally tear into each other in gradually increasing volume.

DJ Speaks Rating: 6 Out Of 10