Mother's
Day
"Mother’s
Day is a middle of the road, super safe, average movie with some
chuckles but nothing exhilarating and nothing horribly disappointing.
It's just there."
Get ready for the bland!
Because no holiday is safe from Garry Marshall, he tackles
Mother’s Day in the typical sitcom fashion we have become
accustomed to after seeing New
Year’s Eve and Valentine’s
Day.
Just like in those movies, we have plenty of famous faces playing
well-to-do people with great houses and difficult troubles.
It’s the week before Mother’s Day, but Jesse (Kate
Hudson) is estranged from her mother (Margo Martindale) because she is
hiding a big secret.
Miranda (Julia Roberts) is a wildly successful TV star who has been
hiding a secret for years, but one that might just emerge this weekend.
Sandy (Jennifer Aniston) is a divorced mother of two struggling with
leftover feelings for her ex (Timothy Olyphant), but the secret he is
about to reveal will probably put an end to that (a movie with this
many surprises and secrets should be so much more exciting and
interesting).
And, Bradley (Jason Sudeikis) is mourning the loss of his wife, while
struggling to raise two daughters (he doesn’t have any
secrets, maybe he should?).
Mother’s
Day is a middle of the road,
super safe, average movie with some chuckles but nothing exhilarating
and nothing horribly disappointing. It's just there.
It's a flat movie with no real story arcs until the end when Marshall
and the four person writing team drag out every clichéd plot
device known to man and beast to draw some cheap emotion out of the
audience. None of it is deep. It’s just maudlin and
predictable and simple.
The cast is plugging away, but none of them face any great acting
challenges, which might be exactly why they signed up. I’d
like to hang out on the set with Marshall and make millions of bucks,
too.
Mother's
Day is rated PG-13 for language and some suggestive material.
118 Minutes
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