Snatched

When her boyfriend dumps her just before their big South American vacation, a young woman (Amy Schumer) drags her timid mother (Goldie Hawn) along, having no other friends to invite. Long story short, absolutely everything goes wrong, and they wind up abducted and lost in the trackless equatorial jungle. Katie Dippold’s episodic script is a bit of a mess, but at least it’s funny—pretty funny most of the time and very funny some of the time. Schumer and Hawn make a great team, their comic chops meshing nicely (a sequel looks all but assured). Jonathan Levine directs at a merry clip, and the supporting cast doesn’t hurt: Ike Barinholtz as Schumer’s slacker brother; Wanda Sykes and a mute, unrecognizable Joan Cusack as fellow vacationers; and a hilarious Christopher Meloni as a wannabe Indiana Jones. J.L.