By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Jonathan Levine
Cast: Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn, Randall Park, Wanda Sykes, Ike Barinholtz, Oscar Jaenada, Damion Scandrick, Tom Bateman, Sergio Sánchez, Chritopher Meloni and Joan Cusack.
Rating: Average.
Jonathan Levine, director of “50/50” and “The Night Before” brings “Snatched”. A movie from the comedy genre that despite of having very dumb moments I really enjoyed it.
The movie tells the story of Emily Middleton (Amy Schumer) a New Yorker who recently lost her job and gets dumped by his rock star boyfriend Michael (Randall Park). Later in the story sheseeks the comfort of her over protecting mother Linda (Goldie Hawn).
Soon Emily tries to convince her mom to go on a previous trip that she booked with her ex boyfriend to Ecuador. At the beginning Linda is having second thoughts about the trip and finally she accepts on going with her daughter to South America.
Everything goes perfectly fine for both Emily and Linda until one day they both get kidnapped and their lives are now at stake.
Now both women have to figure out a way to survive this ordeal before it´s too late.
Jonathan Levine is a director that know this genre pretty well and once again with his direction he knew how to get the best of both Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn.
The main problem that I saw in “Snatched” was the screenplay itself written by Katie Dippold, who wrote last year´s reboot of “Ghostbusters”. By moments there were moments the movie was not that funny.
I think that some of the jokes and gags could have been more original but some of them were very repetitive. If a little bit more of time in the dialogue of the screenplay would have been invested the result could have been much better.
The pacing and time of the film is really good and I was pleased with it. For a genre like this one the pacingis critical is and there has been a tendency with comedies lately that some of them have been either too long or too repetitive. Here was not the case.
It was very good to see Goldie Hawn after years of absence and I´m happy that she did it with one of Hollywood´s most talented comedians: Amy Schumer. After the success she had with “Trainwreck” two years ago she has been at the peak of her game.
The chemistry between Schumer and Hawn works at all levels and yes the movie keeps it´s main purpose which is to entertain and make laugh with some goofy moments.
There were characters in the movie that I felt that there were not necessary and didn´t contribute to anything. Despite of the movie being dumb it had very watchable and enjoyable moments.
With that being said I give “Snatched” a marginal recommendation due to the fails that I previously mentioned specially in terms of screenplay and story but I finish by saying that it was such a delight seeing both Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn in the big screen.