Here's what critics had to say about Jennifer's ensemble comedy/holiday film '
Mother's Day' with criticism from Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and IMDb:
Review aggregation website
Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 8% based on reviews from 61 critics with an average rating of 2.7/10.0. Rotten Tomatoes critic consensus states: "Arguably well-intended yet thoroughly misguided, '
Mother's Day' is the cinematic equivalent of a last-minute gift that only underscores its embarrassing lack of effort." Positive reviews from
Rotten Tomatoes include: "Marshall uses the same formula of blending together multiple story lines for his light comedy
'Mother's Day', but this time has better defined the plot and embraced the emotion. It's not perfect, but it's a sweet Mother's Day gift." - said critic Rick Bentley of Fresno Bee. "No human being is quite human. No adult is quite adult. No situation completely makes sense. But the overall aura is kind of...welcoming. It's impossible to take seriously, but easy to take." - said critic Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle. "Sure, you'll forget about it in a week after you've seen it, but it's mostly pleasant and occasionally touching, even though it's a lot closer to an episode of '
The Love Boat' than '
Love Actually' ". - said critic Randy Cordova of Arizona Republic. Negative reviews from
Rotten Tomatoes include: "Director Gary Marshall is a menace. He keeps killing holidays with all-star comedies in which a laugh would die of loneliness. Note to Marshall: Keep your mitts off Father's Day." - said critic Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine. "The large, talented cast has little to do but with the flow of the overly sweetened, sentimental twists and turns, but the sap eventually sucks all of them under." - said critic Neil Pond of Parade magazine. "If you love your mother, don't make her see this movie." - said critic Samantha Highfill of Entertainment Weekly magazine.
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| "Mother's Day is a sweet gift" - Rick Bentley, Fresno Bee |
According to
Metacritic the film got a score of 17 out of 100, based on reviews from 24 critics, indicating "generally negative reviews". Positive reviews from
Metacritic include: "Perhaps because the bar was set so low, '
Mother's Day' turns out to be surprisingly watchable." - said critic Randy Cordova of Arizona Repulic. " '
Mother's Day' is a concocted market-driven holiday, and so is this M&M's-obsessed movie - candy for the sweet-toothed among us." - said critic Brad Wheeler of The Globe an Mail. Negative reviews from
Metacritic include: " '
Mother's Day' is bad from the start, and it doesn't get better." - said critic Jon Frosch of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. " '
Mother's Day' may boast a star-studded cast, but it's a spectacular dud on every other level with tonal whiplash, a little casual racism played for jokes and a script seemingly pulled from Hallmark cards rejected of being too hokey." - said critic Brian Truitt of USA Today. " "Despite and army of appealing actors in its large ensemble cast, the rom-com '
Mother's Day' is startlingly unappealing. Clumsily edited and culturally tone deaf, it's more obsessed with the titular holiday than even most mothers would find reasonable." - said critic Jen Chaney of the Washington Post.
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| "Mother's Day is surprisingly watchable" - Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic |
IMDb the internet movie data base gave '
Mother's Day' 5.2 stars out of 10.0 stars rating based on 372 votes from 2 users and 29 critics. Positive
IMDb critic reviews include: "Having already laid waste to '
New Year's Eve' and '
Valentine's Day',
Marshall shows no hesitation in unintentionally belittling another
holiday, and one with much more meaning than others." - said critic Ben Kenber of Examiner.com " Negative
IMDb critic reviews include: "Mom might say, 'It's the thought that counts, dear,' but take her to this holiday omnibus, and you'll run the risk of having her think you're as lazy as the movie." - said critic Marjorie Baumgarten of the Austin Chronicle. "Marshall seems perfectly content with delivering a new movie that's just as trite, mawkish, painfully unfunny and manipulative as '
Valentine's Day' and '
New Year's Eve' ". - said critic Perri Nemiroff of Collider. " '
Mother's Day' is another movie that's too innocuous to inspire actual rage yet too utterly tepid and bland to elicit a single laugh." - said critic Alonso Duralde of The Wrap.
