Snatched
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: May 12, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
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9
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24
Negative:
8
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMay 11, 2017
In a curious way, Snatched is a little like an Amy Schumer stand-up routine: sometimes edgy, occasionally hilarious, and lessened by the bits that fall flat. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMay 10, 2017
It’s a funny movie, but it’s also one in which Schumer becomes truly legible, as someone who could be headlining comedies for the next decade or more. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTom RussoMay 10, 2017
The movie also plays as an extended reminder of why we love Goldie. It’s enormous fun seeing Hawn up to her old tricks — at 71! — even if they’re tweaked to help sell someone else’s brand of comedy. Read full review
70
SlateHeather SchwedelMay 10, 2017
Surprisingly, though, while you’re waiting for Snatched to appall you, it turns out to be a pretty darn enjoyable movie, one that’s winning, sweet at times, and consistently very funny. Read full review
67
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallMay 11, 2017
Snatched amuses because of who's delivering the jokes rather than what the jokes are. Read full review
64
Paste MagazineAnthony SalveggiJun 1, 2017
If your tastes run to the rude, crude and pleasantly bizarre—the laughs are there, doing the heavy lifting for a story that barely is. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter TraversMay 11, 2017
The pleasures here come almost exclusively from Schumer and Hawn playing off each other like the rock stars of comedy they are. Read full review
63
Washington PostAnn HornadayMay 11, 2017
No one will ever credit Snatched with discovering new comic territory. But it earns its share of laughs by covering some well-trod ground. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 10, 2017
It’s got enough laughs to get by. Read full review
60
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoMay 10, 2017
While Snatched stars big names in Schumer and Hawn, the ones you'll be remembering are Cusack, Meloni and Barinholtz. Read full review
60
Screen DailyTim GriersonMay 10, 2017
Often amusing but rarely shifting into a higher comedic gear, Snatched features fun chemistry between co-stars Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn, some delightfully goofy moments of stray hilarity, yet not enough story or heart to keep this thin tale afloat. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschMay 10, 2017
Schumer and Hawn know what funny looks and sounds like, and they lend their dialogue and gags — no matter how tepid — enough snap and personality to distract you, at least some of the time, from the utter laziness of the material. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyMay 10, 2017
It stands apart from the majority of R-rated, coprolalic studio comedies simply by being fast-paced and, on occasion, pretty funny. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattMay 10, 2017
As Snatched’s blonde-leading-the-blonde farce careens on, it stumbles into moments of deranged inspiration. Read full review
50
IGNAlex WelchJun 1, 2017
Snatched has its fair share of laughs, but the film’s attempts at sustaining a legitimate emotional underpinning throughout are unsuccessful, thanks to a lackluster turn from Schumer, and some tiresome writing all across the board. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorMay 11, 2017
Snatched piles bad ideas on good ideas and lame bits of gross-out humour on genuinely funny bits of character work, without ever building enough dramatic force or comic energy to craft a full movie from the results. Read full review
50
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerMay 11, 2017
It’s still a reasonably funny movie when it hits its marks. It’s just a funny movie prone to going to some ugly, barren wells for laughs throughout as well. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireMay 11, 2017
It’s a mismatched-buddy comedy. It’s a fish-out-of-water comedy. It’s a raucous girl-power comedy. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMay 11, 2017
Snatched, more about victimhood than women running their own show, is funny here and there, but in ways that make the bulk of the formulaic material all the more frustrating. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineKeith WatsonMay 11, 2017
The mother-daughter relationship ostensibly at the film’s heart is largely reduced to tired jokes about how moms can be overprotective and don’t understand how to use Facebook. Read full review
50
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldMay 10, 2017
Snatched is one of those movies that feels like a rough draft of itself. A few more rewrites, a few more laughs, a little (well, a lot) more attention, and maybe it would have been an amusing summer comedy. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMay 10, 2017
The tantalizing enticement of Goldie Hawn pairing with Amy Schumer for a mother-daughter, road-trip buddy comedy has some moments, but never fulfills its promise. As their onscreen adventures and antics grow zanier and broader, the laughs actually grow softer and more sporadic. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsAmy RoweMay 10, 2017
Hawn deserves better, and so do audiences who are likely to find themselves losing interest in the kidnapping movie’s runaway plot. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMay 10, 2017
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. Read full review
50
VarietyOwen GleibermanMay 10, 2017
The movie’s mother-daughter jokes are like firecrackers with damp fuses. Read full review
45
TheWrapRobert AbeleMay 10, 2017
What we’ve gotten in Snatched is an uninspired, scattershot disaster romp that mostly serves the talents of one half of the marquee pairing, underuses the other half, and struggles to blend R-rated humor, foreign misadventure, and oil-and-water mother-daughter dynamic into a cohesive diversion. Read full review
40
SalonMax CeaJun 27, 2017
There are a few strong bits in Snatched — the best of them centering around Joan Cusak as a silent ex-special ops agent — and the film is well-paced. But as Hawn’s Linda should have learned, this time around Amy Schumer isn’t worth leaving the house for. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyMay 22, 2017
It’s impossible not to come out wishing it were better. Read full review
40
EmpirePhil de SemlyenMay 22, 2017
A winning double act never quite gels in a fish-out-of-water road-trip caper — think ‘National Lampoon’s Gringo Vacation’ — that leans hard on its stars’ charms and very lightly on coherent plotting. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinMay 12, 2017
I’m not sure about Hawn. A youthful twitterer, she has developed an expressively croaky voice, but nothing about her reads “nervous, agoraphobic cat lady.” She’s no longer a jumpy clown — she doesn’t need the humiliation. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangMay 11, 2017
Snatched may represent a failure of sensitivity, but it’s an even greater failure of nerve. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonMay 10, 2017
Too much of the humour derives from Emily’s insatiable appetite for booze, food and sex, while the central mother-daughter relationship is predictable. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonMay 10, 2017
The noxious self-absorption of straight white women that Schumer has sent up so blisteringly on her Comedy Central show is extolled more than it is lampooned. Read full review
38
New York PostSara StewartMay 11, 2017
It was supposed to be a lark. And then, almost immediately, it went off the rails. I’m not referring to the mother-daughter vacation gone wrong in Snatched, but rather the experience of watching it. Read full review
38
USA TodayBrian TruittMay 11, 2017
It fumbles because neither of the characters are particularly likable. Read full review
30
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMay 10, 2017
What a mess. Its meandering plot draws attention to the alarming lack of laughs — not what you look for in a supposed comedy. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisMay 10, 2017
The movie feels out of whack, as if big chunks were excised to ensure its relatively short 90-minute running length. Clearly, Emily and Linda aren’t the only things that go missing in Snatched. Read full review
25
The Film StageJohn FinkMay 18, 2017
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. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerMay 12, 2017
It may not matter to audiences that this film...is junk. But shouldn’t it matter at least to Hawn and Schumer? Read full review
25
ObserverRex ReedMay 11, 2017
Together, as a grotesque mother-daughter team kidnapped in Ecuador, they’re the most depressing Mother’s Day present since "Mommie Dearest," only not half as funny. Read full review
25
IndieWireKate ErblandMay 10, 2017
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. Read full review
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