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. When her boyfriend dumps her before their exotic vacation, a young woman persuades her ultra-cautious mother to travel with her to paradise, with unexpected results. Who can take a half decent plot and strong cast and ruin it? Amy Shumer that's who. She is just not a funny person. Rest of cast is decent and plot is not great but OK. The one thing that stands out, Amy Shumer is not funny. Did I say Amy Shumer is not funny? The movie does contain a few laughs despite the lead actress. Goldie Hawn deserves better than this. "Snatched" tried to be a likable movie, but it just didn't work on any level. I am a big fan of Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer, but their pairing may have been one of the worst since Warren Beatty and Al Pacino in the ever-so-memorable, "Ishtar." <br/><br/>Emily (Schumer) has scheduled a trip to Ecuador with her boyfriend, only to have her him break up with her right before the trip! Desperate not to have to go ALONE, she finally convinces her mom to accompany her. Ignoring all warnings by her mom NOT to talk to strangers, she finds herself knee deep in sh*t when both mom and daughter are kidnapped and held for ransom.<br/><br/>Unlike Schumer's last movie, the hilarious "Trainwreck," the script here is just too weak (not to mention unfunny) for anything to work. Surrounded by a much more talented cast in "Trainwreck," Schumer is exposed here and the audience realizes very quickly her shtick gets real old real fast. As much as I love Goldie Hawn, she looked bored and uninterested in this entire project.<br/><br/>Rated "R" for violence and constant ribald language, you won't have missed much if you choose to pass on this one. Too much of the humour derives from Emily’s insatiable appetite for booze, food and sex, while the central mother-daughter relationship is predictable.
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