Mother's Day (2016)

Disappointment for a huge fan!

Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

There were some fun parts but I was disappointed because: Those awkward jokes about feeling awkward about period when it;s something normal, making women feel bad about thir bodies. The 'miserable' business woman becomes happy only when she meets her daughter. (perpetuating the stereotype of a woman being fulfilled only by motherhood). It was mentioned that only mothers know how to take care of children best, which is wrong. The good parts were the messages about racism and the lesbian couple.

Since Amazon Prime kept pushing this movie on me, I finally gave in and downloaded it to watch on a trip and even though it didn't cost me anything, I still feel like I should get something back for my effort. This was the most predictable and lazily written movie I have seen since, well, any number of the other formulaic tripe that we see come out of LaLa land. The actors had to know what a poor script this was. They probably got paid a lot just to show up and recite thier lines. Here is your formula checklist just to make sure we aren't missing anything hung. The single dad has to buy tampons for his teenage daughter and the cashier has to call for a price check? Check. The racist parents from Texas who only drink American beers and hates gay people? Check. The same parents don't know that their one daughter is gay and in a committed relationship? Check. The other daughter is married to a man from a different culture? Check. A successful entrepreneur who doesn't have kids and is so focused on her career? Check. The same woman is hiding the fact she had a child at one time? Check. A divorced mom who soon discovers her ex husband's much younger new wife isn't so bad after all? Check. I could go on and on and on which it what it seems like this movie does as it fills in its movie paint-by-number script. There isn't one funny line in the entire movie. Even the stand up comedian doesn't have one funny joke but gets a lot of laughs during his sets. He even wins a stand up contest with his "improv" about his baby (which wasn't funny at all). Here are a couple of other notes I mentally took as I zoned out listening to this movie: A child with asthma who has an attack while at his step mom's house. Step calls bio mom in panic because the inhaler is empty. Bio first tells step to put him near an open freezer because it helps him breathe (SINCE WHEN HAS THIS EVER BEEN THE CASE FOR AN ASTHMATIC?) but second, tells step that there is a back up inhaler in his backpack. Don't you think you would mention that first. And don't you think the kid would know that too?? For the storyline regarding the racist parents, how could they have not known about their daughter's husband and grandson that is at least 8 years old? They haven't even spoken in that amount of time but suddenly show up as a surprise for mother's day? What about the big holidays like Christmas, or milestone birthdays? The town holds a Mother's Day parade?with floats and things. Huh? I have never heard of such a thing. Have you? The interior designer has a website that looks like a page from 1995 in a beginning html class. I wouldn't hire a designer with a site done so poorly. This was such a waste of the talents of Julia Roberts, Asif Mandi, Jason Sudekis, Jennifer Aniston, and others. And it's a sad way to remember Garry Marshall.

I don't know what happened to take the humor and good nature out of our country, but some of the reactions to this film are proof-positive that something bad has happened.This is simple fare, semi-farcical at times, tender at other times, and it can be enjoyed by a wide age-range. There is the wacky character, the tender character, all good-humored characters, the bulls-in-China-shop visitors, and an overall sense that with a good few hugs and some patience and some love, all will be well.You see, that's the way movies used to be made. To entertain and uplift, sometimes in major ways, sometimes in minor ways - like this way, this film.It's a cute little romp. Ignore the humorless. You can tell who they are. They didn't like this silly little fun film.

Fist clue: Jen Aniston stars in it which means the movie will be PURE CRAP.Second clue: Oh dear, Jason Sudeikis also stars in it, how coincidental, Jen and him are former colleagues from We're the Millers and Horrible Bosses. Smells like deja vu.Kate Hudson is cool but there is no proof of chemistry between her and her husband played by Aasif Mandvi, who can't act well enough to sell a happy marriage.Then Julia Roberts' scenes last less than 10 minutes during the whole movie, so explain why-why-oh my god why she was on the movie poster and not Sarah Chalke??!! Plus her character is as cold as her in real life. You know what Julia, we've seen Notting Hill in 1999, we've moved on.The only characters that kept me going were the least famous but the most gifted: Jack Whitehall as Zack and Margo Martindale as Flo.To sum up, wait until your local TV shows it, don't even bother paying for it.Not.worth.a.single.penny