MOTHER’S DAY
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, JUlia Roberts, Kate Hudson, Jason Sudeikis, Britt Robertson, Timothy loyphant
Rated: 4.5/10
For a film that has a groovy, goosepimply subject of motherhood on the plate and a sterling star cast of none less than America’s sweethearts Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and Kate Hudson to play moms of all hues; some teary-eyed, some out-of-the-box, some life-changing daily life situations to peck on, this one should have been a runaway bride.
But, no! It gets going rather slowly. The introductory stories — that of a divorced mom, a mom married to an “Indian” on the sly to escape her racist Texan mom, a daughter-mom with mom abandonment issues, a single dad who’s still crying over the loss of his children’s mom, a gay mom, not to mention a teen mom who gives up her child to emerge as the leading lady of television commercials on “Mother’s Day” jewellery — there were too many of these moms in the marinade.
And, despite all these heart-strung tales, why is it that the viewer couldn’t think beyond the horrible, atrocious, out of place and totally artificial orange coloured bob cut wig that Julia Roberts is made to wearIJ I mean, all I could think of in the film is this piece of oddity that kept threatening to topple off the lady’s head every given moment.
With the stories too contrived, the situations unmoving and the events in the film going back and forth around all the families, Mother’s Day is a film that fails to get over the mumbo-jumbo of contrived emotionality.
