Review: Cloying And Farfetched, 'mother's Day' Unfit For Mom

Even if stars Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts and Kate Hudson are mom's all-time favorites, don't subject her to this cloying, plotless dose of saccharine unless she's done you wrong. The bloopers that play amid the closing credits — one in which Aniston un-hilariously calls Roberts by her real name instead of her character's — are some of the funniest moments in the film. Like "Valentine's Day" and "New Year's Eve" before it, "Mother's Day" introduces various characters whose stories intertwine as they prepare for the title holiday. [...] like its predecessors, this latest Marshall romp boasts an extensive all-star cast, including Hector Elizondo, Margo Martindale, Jason Sudeikis, Timothy Olyphant and Jennifer Garner. Kristin (Britt Robertson) is a new mom who feels she can't marry her baby's father until she resolves her own maternal issues: meeting her biological mother. Bradley (Sudeikis), the one who takes the unlikely balcony fall, is a widowed dad trying to figure out how to celebrate Mother's Day with his two teenage daughters a year after their mom's death. Mother's Day," an Open Road Films release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "language and some suggestive material.

 

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