So I FINALLY saw
A Bad Moms Christmas (2017) with my own mother just in time for Christmas and was pleased to see a scene in there that exactly mirrors my favorite scene from
Home Alone (1990). I was actually quite surprised to see it and wonder if the similarities are intentional. :)
By the way, this blog post includes some
spoilers for both films I guess, but especially
A Bad Moms Christmas.
I've blogged about the scene before and the blog post for it seems pretty popular on here. Long story short, the kid Kevin is left behind by his family on Christmas and goes to the local church and sits in a pew as he listens to the choir sing. He is joined there by Old Man Marley, an old man of whom he is afraid. However, there the two bond and from that point on Kevin is no longer afraid of him.
Interestingly enough,
Home Alone and
A Bad Moms Christmas are very similar. Both are comedy films with slapstick (and in
Bad Moms's case, raunchiness as well) and yet have this quiet moment to form solace between two characters.
We meet Amy again, played by Mila Kunis, who again, along with her comrades from the first film Kiki (Kristen Bell) and Carla (Kathryn Hahn), is so sick of the pressure of being a perfect mother. The premise is very similar to the first film, except this time the plot involves Christmas. The trio makes a pact to take Christmas back so that they can enjoy Christmas for themselves as well.