Schumer’s ‘Snatched’ Not Woke Enough, Critics Cry
It isn’t easy being a woke celebrity. You try. And you try. Yet it’s never good enough.
Katy Perry attempts to turn her grrrl power shtick into a political movement and gets popped by a withering op-ed in The Daily Beast.
Will Ferrell does everything humanly possible to support progressive causes. What happens next? he gets dubbed a racist for a comedy co-starring a black superstar.
And now there’s Amy Schumer’s “Snatched.”
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The new comedy stars the uber-progressive comic and Goldie Hawn in a mother-daughter adventure. Schumer’s influence on the film is palpable. She didn’t just famously nix a gun-laden sequence (she’s for gun control in real life). The screenplay also has her fingerprints all over it.
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Her character notices, and mocks, how a tribal family in Colombia treats women like second-class citizens. There’s plenty of female empowerment chatter through and through. And it’s the women who must save themselves.
It wasn’t enough, apparently.
Here’s The New York Times “destroying” the film’s lack of insensitivity.
“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. 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.
TheWrap.com hints at outrage but doesn’t go the full scold:
The trip is a trap, however, and the women are summarily kidnapped, thrown into a dingy cell, and held for ransom by a ruthless sort named Morgado (Oscar Jaenada), who — if we’re keeping tabs on Hollywood’s representation of foreign lands — is the first native character, and one of the only ones, with more than three lines.
The Hollywood Reporter hits harder:
There’s one extremely bizarre gag involving the manual extraction of a tapeworm, and also some unfortunate cultural stereotyping in the form of gun-toting Colombians with long hair and sinister teeth….
[Director Jonathan] Levine … isn’t a deft enough director to overcome the optics of yet another film about white characters finding themselves thanks to their experience in a problem-plagued developing country.
The Village Voice shares its outrage in the headline: “Snatched” Is Perfect for Mother’s Day if Mom Hates and Fears Other Countries
In a scene that signals the soft racism to follow, Linda mishears the standard English greeting of the Ecuadorian concierge, handing out a complimentary drink, as “whale cum.”
Then, the reviewer goes for the jugular by comparing the film to “Monster in Law.”
That film traded in casual misogyny, Snatched in offhand xenophobia. Happy Mother’s Day.
Sorry, Schumer. All of your liberal virtue signaling isn’t enough. Your new film simply isn’t woke. And today’s film critics, who increasingly resemble Social Justice Warriors, are all too eager to say so.
I think films should be entertainment. Others demand they be propaganda. They should be separated and labeled as such.
Saw the trailer the other night w/my wife…we both, near simultaneously decided it wasn’t worth watching.
Not that I was ever going to see it but this makes it that much better
I can’t stand Schumer, but since SJW’s hate this movie, it might be worth watching just to annoy them.
and on top of all that, the movie is a steaming pile of shit. pretty soon fat amy will be financing her pictures, as well as writing them. there is simply no audience for this talentless shrew. i know, mybe she could do a buddy picture with rosie o’donnel and call it “Scissoring To Gomorrah”
My eyes bleed every time this fat cunt manages to get in front of them.
The SJW movement seems to be a race to determine who has the thinnest skin.
Schumer has a handicap. She ain’t funny except funny looking. Is she a brook trout-possum hybrid? That’s the smallest minority.
I am going to break the news to you useful idiots, the sub human pig ain’t funny.
Comedienne: you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Sexist, ain’t it?
unless it means “untalented, unfunny, and grossly overweight” in some language, then no.
I just came here to defend Amy.
OK, I have failed already, because she is so, utterly, lost in her own mind.
Amy Schumer’s Snatch. No thanks.
Why would anyone pay to see it? Besides, everyone says it stinks.
her snatch? i believe it
Yeah not even DJT wanted to snatch-grab it
Normally, these kinds of reviews would send me to the theater to see the movie, because that usually means it’s actually funny. But given that this is Amy Shumer, I’m going to take a pass. I have never found her funny and find all her moral lecturing annoying. I love that she is getting it thrown back in her face. Couldn’t happen to a worse person.
Well said sir. couldn’t have said it better myself.
Nobody really cares about reviewers. Is it funny? That’s all that matters. They’ll cluck cluck endlessly in public, but if it’s funny, they’ll still go see it.
Progressivism is a cancer that consumes everyone, especially those who embrace it. Because it’s now based on identity politics, it will self-segregate until Balkanizarion of the culture is complete and we’re literally at each other’s throats. Fortunately, 90% of the division will be on the left. Unfortunately, they’ll be far more dangerous as small cadres of true believers who believe anything is justified in the name of their cause, from lying slander and libel to violence and even murder.
she’s ugly and worse unfunny.
I don’t think she’s “ugly” I think she comes across as “unattractive”…and coarse.
This may be me, but I find that today’s current supposed comedians are not funny. Some where along the line the definition of comedy changed drastically. Lennie Bruce would be embarrassed.
That is the point of the article that they aren’t allowed to be because of today’s woke culture! There ARE some important things to be woke on but not comedy, that’s why it’s called comedy.
She’s vaguely attractive, but she has an ugly soul. And has never uttered anything in the least funny
Senator Chuck Schumer’s cousin is a racist. Who would have guessed? The truth is that the Left does not do comedy.
1. I’d feel some sympathy if she hadn’t already done the obligatory left wing shaming of middle American values.
2. Re: Schumer related to Chuck Schumer. Enough with the nepotism between the media and the Washington power elite.