Mothers Day

Mothers Day

Rating 2 out of 10

I am in Chicago for work.  The hottie flew in with plans of catching a Braves vs. Cubs game at Wrigley Field.  Mother Nature felt otherwise as it started raining early and lasted all day.  Time for a movie before eating large quantities of deep dish pizza.

This is director Garry Marshall's third entry into the holiday movie following Valentines Day and New Years Eve.   I saw and enjoyed the first two.  They were poorly reviewed, a little on the corny side, but cute and wound around a story in a mildly entertaining way.

This movie is nothing like that.  I have to steal from another reviewers post when he said this is "the perfect movie to take your mother to if you hate her".  This movie is bad in so many ways it would be hard to list them all.  While it has several actors I like the acting is as bad as any movie I have ever seen.  The story is a mess. Many scenes appear as if the director looked at the actors with palms up and said I've got nothing. Ya'll see what you can do.

This movie has every stereotype in the book.  The ultra-racist grandparents from Texas driving an RV while grandpa chews on a chicken bone with the bucket right on the dash.  Two sisters living side by side.  One is gay with her wife and the other married to an Indian man. Both causing grandma to disown them. A divorced mom (Jennifer Anniston) secretly wishing her ex (Timothy Olyphant)  would want her back.  Instead he marries his hot very young model girlfriend.  You have the dad with two daughters still trying to cope with the death of his wife a year before (she was in the military).
Julia Roberts with one of the worst wigs in movie history as a Home Shopping Network star.

This movie is terrible on so many different levels.  If you read this and go see it anyway knowing Royce is always harsh on movies you will secretly admit I was right.  Otherwise you can just thank me for saving your hard earned movie dollars.