Mothers Day is a pretentiously overlong holiday movie that feels like it was made by aliens. Garry Marshall's third holiday movie is one of the most inept and pointless movies of this year. Why in the world did they think the concept of Mother's Day would be a good idea? If you can be creative about it, it might have worked, but instead we get a horrendously offensive comedy that has no originality whatsoever.
I can't even remember any of the plot of this movie because they focus way too little and way too much on one plot to another. Kate Hudson's plot is skipped over completely until the last thirty minutes, Jennifer Aniston's plot is focused on way too much, the Julia Roberts plot is a pointless infomercial to sell Mood Pendants and the Jason Sudeikis plot is about a guy who can't stop mourning his dead wife who got shot in the head by terrorists or something.
That tells you how entertaining this movie is.
The acting feels unnatural and not human. Jennifer Aniston goes on rants and talks to herself like she is in a mental ward, Sudeikis being dramatic falls flat. Everyone else feels tired and dopey. Their comedic bits are what kill the movie.
The comedy involves a lot of offensively unfunny things. Racial Minorities being treated by police like animals, candy getting stuck in vending machines, someone falling of a balcony and getting their foot broken and to top it all off with a overdone asthma attack that takes them to the Emergency Room. Because that's funny. Having an asthma attack on a family holiday.
Very rarely did I ever get a laugh out of this movie. The funniest thing is when Kate Hudson's parents show up and find out shes married. That is the comedic highlight of the movie people.
Mother's Day is also way too long. Clocking in at nearly two hours, the film should have been 86 minutes long. But instead the plot(s) drag out way too long and make everything boring and frustrating to watch.
The only target audience this movie will please is seniors because it's safe and non risk taking. Mother's Day the horror movie is probably five times better than this Mother's Day.
If you're wanting to see something new this week, Watch Keanu or Ratchet and Clank, those two movies at least aren't under 30 on Metacritic. This movie is a sharp pain that I wish would end and I thought it never would.
26/100 D
I can't even remember any of the plot of this movie because they focus way too little and way too much on one plot to another. Kate Hudson's plot is skipped over completely until the last thirty minutes, Jennifer Aniston's plot is focused on way too much, the Julia Roberts plot is a pointless infomercial to sell Mood Pendants and the Jason Sudeikis plot is about a guy who can't stop mourning his dead wife who got shot in the head by terrorists or something.
That tells you how entertaining this movie is.
The acting feels unnatural and not human. Jennifer Aniston goes on rants and talks to herself like she is in a mental ward, Sudeikis being dramatic falls flat. Everyone else feels tired and dopey. Their comedic bits are what kill the movie.
The comedy involves a lot of offensively unfunny things. Racial Minorities being treated by police like animals, candy getting stuck in vending machines, someone falling of a balcony and getting their foot broken and to top it all off with a overdone asthma attack that takes them to the Emergency Room. Because that's funny. Having an asthma attack on a family holiday.
Very rarely did I ever get a laugh out of this movie. The funniest thing is when Kate Hudson's parents show up and find out shes married. That is the comedic highlight of the movie people.
Mother's Day is also way too long. Clocking in at nearly two hours, the film should have been 86 minutes long. But instead the plot(s) drag out way too long and make everything boring and frustrating to watch.
The only target audience this movie will please is seniors because it's safe and non risk taking. Mother's Day the horror movie is probably five times better than this Mother's Day.
If you're wanting to see something new this week, Watch Keanu or Ratchet and Clank, those two movies at least aren't under 30 on Metacritic. This movie is a sharp pain that I wish would end and I thought it never would.
26/100 D