Mother's Day
— the new ensemble comedy about moms starring Jennifer Aniston, Kate
Hudson, and Julia Roberts — is getting some of the world's worst
reviews. I mean, the worst
reviews. I've put together some of the worst of the worst — and it
wasn't hard because again, there are so many — and man, they are harsh. I
was planning on taking my mom for Mother's Day but maybe we'll get
brunch instead?!
1.
"Director Garry Marshall is a menace. He keeps killing holidays with
all-star comedies in which a laugh would die of loneliness. First,
Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve got the Marshall treatment. Now
Mother's Day takes the hit from Marhall's marauders, out to trick a
bunch of poor, movie-loving moms to take a chance on this turkey on
their special day. - Rolling Stone
2. "Is it too much to ask that all these holiday-themed rom-coms — Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve and now Mother's Day — one day merge with the Halloween movies?
Michael Myers might be the only one in either franchise with a truly
cutting response to all the rhetorical musings about relationships
romantic, familial and platonic." - LA Weekly.
3. "It's hard to know where to begin with Mother's Day,
a misshapen Frankenstein of a movie that feels like it escaped the
Hallmark headquarters halfway through its creation and rampaged into
theaters, trying to teach audiences how to love. " - The Atlantic
4.
"The best scene in Mother's Day comes at the very end. It's one of the
bloopers thrown into the tail credits, and it features Julia Roberts
sitting at a table in a restaurant, looking distant as a train rolls
by." - The Ex-Press
5.
"Watching the new Garry Marshall film is akin to going to watch an
actor friend in a scene study showcase. You have a bunch of thespians
on-stage doing random scenes that sometimes go together, and oftentimes
don't. At least the showcase is probably a little less painful than the
slow and unfunny new comedy MOTHER'S DAY." - JoBlo
6.
"Much about Mother's Day is easy to mock, including the overlit
squeaky-clean images, the clumsy use of green screen and stunt doubles,
and the excited references to social media platforms as if these were
the newest, edgiest thing. Most disconcerting of all is the lack of
drama: there are no villains nor any conflicts that can't be swiftly
resolved." - The Age
7.
"Even with a reduced cast list, Mother's Day feels both overstuffed and
undernourished, filled with subplots that simply don't need to exist." -
Consequence of Sound
8.
"Marshall's worst film, making dreck like "Raising Helen," "The Other
Sister," and "Georgia Rule" feel like summer vacations next to this
appallingly idiotic and insulting picture." - Blu-Ray.com
9.
"'Mother's Day' is a total mess, but what's truly offensive is that
they didn't even try to make this cynical, post-Sunday brunch cash grab
even remotely watchable. Your mom deserves so much better this Mother's
Day." - The Chicago Tribune
