{"id":23600,"date":"2016-08-01T04:54:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T08:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=23600"},"modified":"2016-12-21T04:56:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T09:56:13","slug":"mothers-day-2016-blu-raydigital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/01\/mothers-day-2016-blu-raydigital\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother’s Day (2016) [Blu-Ray\/Digital]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sadly, ever since \u201cLove Actually\u201d became a standard of the holiday, Hollywood has enlisted hokey melodrama director Garry Marshall to give us a new holiday based ensemble piece of garbage almost every year. \u201cMother\u2019s Day\u201d is the latest insidious melodrama about a group of very rich, very healthy Caucasian people bickering about how hard their lives are. One character played by Jennifer Aniston, even decides to throw a humongous party for her sons, just because. Man, can you imagine what would happen if these people ever stepped out of their bubbles? \u201cMother\u2019s Day\u201d is about mother\u2019s day, the mother of all holidays, everyone seems to be obsessed with mother\u2019s day, and they talk about mother\u2019s day because, mothers!<\/p>\n

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There are even a bunch of scenes of moms in parks playing with their kids in\u2014I assume\u2014is a land where fathers don\u2019t exist? Marshall packs in a humongous ensemble cast of usually talented actors to turn in shrill, obnoxious performances. They play self pitying characters that do nothing but run around complaining and moaning, while sitting in their large houses with massive pools, humongous backyards, and scenic patios! Jennifer Aniston plays Sandy, a woman who broke up with her husband Henry, and is shocked to learn he\u2019s eloped with his much younger bride Tina! And he\u2019s intent on getting her in good with their sons, despite her best attempts to win their attention. Meanwhile, Jason Sudeikis is Bradley, a grieving widower whose wife died in combat. He\u2019s losing touch of his ever precocious daughters, one of whom is becoming a teenager and falling in love with a boy with a car.<\/p>\n

Gadzooks. The goofiest plot of all involves Kate Hudson and Sarah Chalke as Jesse and Gabi, both of whom moved away from their parents to pursue their lifestyles. Gabi and Jesse\u2019s parents are very conservative Southerners oblivious that their oldest, played by Hudson is married to an Indian man (Aasif Mandvi) and has a child with him, while Chalke\u2019s character is gay and married to her partner (Cameron Esposito who is charming, at least). She also<\/em><\/strong> has a kid. Now with both parents popping up for mother\u2019s day, they\u2019re stuck in their house and forced to deal with their prejudices. Gee, will they soften up to their new family by the end of the movie? Meanwhile, there\u2019s Julia Roberts who shows up as a jewelry mogul and TV personality, and Hector Elizondo who also shows up once again to spout chestnuts of wisdom to lost characters.<\/p>\n

The script is painfully awful. Everything in the film is so low stakes and trite, that nothing ever lands and hits an emotional chord. One scene of Aniston\u2019s asthmatic son getting a terrible attack has absolutely zero tension, and a scene of Sudeikis watching an old video of his wife singing karaoke in front of her army buddies is so poorly filmed. What should have been a heartbreaking moment, ends up so irredeemably cheesy. Poor Jennifer Garner who cameos, even comes out looking cornball. To prove how unbelievably dumb the writers think the audience is, after Sudeikis watches the video of his wife singing karaoke, his daughter enters the room and declares,\u00a0 \u201cShe really loved karaoke. Remember?\u201d Yes. We, uh\u2014just caught on to that fact a few seconds ago.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no weight, no complexity, and Marshall has nothing meaningful or poetic to say about this holiday or moms, in general. It\u2019s just a movie to make money off of Hallmark cards, and candy, and will probably be sold in Walmarts for a buck in a few years. \u201cMother\u2019s Day\u201d is just a steaming hot bag of movie dung. It\u2019s trite, it\u2019s dumb, it\u2019s woefully unpleasant, it\u2019s racist, and it\u2019s a shame this is the note Garry Marshall has to go out on. Featured in the Blu-Ray release is a digital copy for consumers. There are five minutes of deleted scenes with the titles \u201cAmerica the Beautiful,\u201d \u201cBig Tipper,\u201d \u201cMiranda’s Travel Set,\u201d \u201cZack Changes Diaper During Standup,\u201d \u201cRachel Driving,\u201d and \u201cBradley Buys Pizza for the Ref.\u201d Finally, there\u2019s a nearly ten minute gag reel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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