Following purported comedienne Amy Schumer's immensely unsuccessful Netflix comedy special, whose failure she blamed on alt-right trolls, the queen of smelly vagina jokes has yet another dud coming down the pike with her upcoming film Snatched in which she stars alongside Goldie Hawn.
According to early reviews, Schumer's caper comedy is a train wreck. With just two days left until release, the New York Times, the Hollywood Reporter and IndieWire have been throwing out words like “lazy,” “uninspired” and “wildly scattershot.”
The New York Times‘ A.O. Scott labeled the film “lazy, sloppy and witless."
“Snatched is one of those movies that subscribes to a dubious homeopathic theory of cultural insensitivity by which the acknowledgment of offensiveness is supposed to prevent anyone from taking offense,” Scott wrote. “The idea is that if you use variations on the phrase ‘That’s racist!’ as a punch line a few times, nothing else you say or do could possibly be racist. Including, say, populating your movie with dark-skinned thugs with funny accents and killing a few of them for cheap laughs.”
IndieWire's Kate Erbland called it“criminally unfunny.”
“One character calls [Schumer’s character] ‘garbage’ (and makes her repeat the insult), while another tells her she’ll be safe from sex trafficking because she’s just not pretty enough, but even these attempts to add some meat to the undercooked film fall flat,” Erbland wrote. “Pairing up talented comedians like Hawn and Schumer with a wacky plotline to match should spell comedy gold, but Snatched is about as cheap and disposable as a tourist trap tchotchke.”
The Village Voice‘s Melissa Anderson accused it of “offhand xenophobia” and “soft racism."
“[Hawn’s] half-committed performance here, however understandable, suggests she may have regretted the decision to end her semi-retirement,” Anderson wrote.
2017 has not been a promising year for the feminist Schumer, starting with the failure of her Netflix special. Originally slated to play the famed toy doll Barbie in the upcoming live-action film, Schumer reportedly dropped the role over alleged "scheduling conflicts"-- which is usually Hollywood code for, "I've been dropped from the project because I'm not a hot commodity anymore."
