Movie - "Snatched"

Deep in the Amazon forest, two American tourists are lost.

Their map is hard to follow. It’s useless for finding directions.

Because the map is a place mat from a restaurant.

Welcome to the movie mayhem of “Snatched” starring Amy Schumer & Goldie Hawn.

Mother and daughter, Emily (Amy S) and Linda (Goldie H) were trying to enjoy their holiday time together at a luxury resort.

A car trip along a scenic route through the countryside ends with a bang. An evil bad guy kidnaps them and threatens to kill them if a ransom is not paid for their return.

The women’s exotic trip to South America turns into a vacation-from-hell.

And then it’s not long before the evil gang leader is living in his own nightmare created by the madcap Emily and Linda.

The movie features occasional violence and rude jokes from a mother-daughter tag team who are robbed of all their possessions. No smartphones or money or passports. No more selfies. All they have left is the clothes on their backs. They’re alone in a foreign country and they can’t speak the local lingo. They become two crazy women living on their wits and dodging bullets in the jungle.

The story is an adventure, it’s unpredictable and has some funny moments. I particularly liked the facebook humor, ‘cause a couple of years ago, I was that mother who didn’t understand the facebook wall. I would ask my fb savvy kid. “What facebook wall? Where is the wall? Show it to me.” The answer was eye rolls from the young teenager. “Mum, you don’t understand…”

Linda is a cat-lady, a worry-wort and an older mother. Goldie Hawn stays in character playing Linda. Sadly, we miss out on Goldie’s signature funny and wacky acting from films in the past. Throughout the chaos, Linda and Emily work on the rift in their relationship and grow closer together.

Here’s The Blurb

After her boyfriend dumps her on the eve of their exotic vacation, impetuous dreamer Emily Middleton persuades her ultra-cautious mother, Linda to travel with her to paradise. Polar opposites, Emily and Linda realize that working through their differences as mother and daughter - in unpredictable, hilarious fashion - is the only way to escape the wildly outrageous jungle adventure they have fallen into. Written by 20^th Century Fox.

 “Snatched” was an entertaining movie. Here's the movie trailer. 

The New York Times, Women in the World website has posted an article about, “How Amy Schumer ‘snatched’ Goldie Hawn for her latest movie.”

“Comedian Amy Schumer was convinced that only one actress could play her mother on the big screen: Goldie Hawn,…The studio executives behind Snatched… thought she might want to consider other actresses for the role…”

You can read the article here; Amy & Goldie

Have a good weekend. 
♥ Ashlyn