Snatched

Dream duo bring the laughs to mother-daughter kidnapping comedy that relies a lot on stars' comic chemistry.

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Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn play a daughter and mother on a disastrous South American vacation in Jonathan Levine's comedy.

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While Snatched stars big names in Schumer and Hawn, the ones you'll be remembering are Cusack, Meloni and Barinholtz.

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Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn's mother-daughter chemistry gets lost in Ecuador getaway.

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It's dismaying how comfortable the film is in treating its Latin American characters as mere props for violent gags.

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Even comedy veteran Goldie Hawn can’t add life to this not-quite-cooked mother-daughter road-trip comedy.

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Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn team up in a mother-daughter kidnap romp that sticks to the surface and earns too few laughs.

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Though this movie ostensibly celebrates the spirit of adventure and openness to experience, it takes no risks and blazes no trails. It’s ultimately as complacent, self-absorbed and clueless as its heroine, and not always in an especially amusing way.

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In the most disappointing miscalculation, Schumer and Hawn seem to be lacking chemistry together in a relationship that walks familiar ground without really offering any kind of subversive take on the material.

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“Snatched” is the highest of high-concept comedies. Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer star as a polar-opposite mother and daughter who get kidnapped while reluctantly vacationing together in Ecuador. It’s a mismatched-buddy comedy. It’s a fish-out-of-water comedy. It’s a raucous girl-power comedy.

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There are sporadic laughs in this haphazard mother-daughter vacation gone wrong, but with this dream comedy pairing — it should be funnier.

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“I am garbage,” Amy Schumer’s Emily Middleton, on a vacation in Ecuador with her ma, Linda (Goldie Hawn), that’s gone all wrong, chimes in agreement with someone who’s leveled the insult at her — and who’s also holding the two women for ransom — in Snatched.

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It fumbles because neither of the characters are particularly likable.

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It was supposed to be a lark. And then, almost immediately, it went off the rails.

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The pairing of Schumer and Hawn, both of whom have successfully parlayed variations on the dumb-blonde theme career-wise, should be something special, but it disappointingly falls short of any high-hope expectations.

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