Such a frustrating disappointment

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Ok, so there are some bad reviews about this film but I really enjoyed it . It is a light hearted film with a really good cast! I watched this with my Nanna and she enjoyed it as well so it is suitable for all ages

Hot (OK, lukewarm) on the heels of Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve comes Mother's Day another collection of interlinked romantic tales from director Garry Marshall.Sandy and Henry, divorced parents of two boys, get along amiably enough. Then Henry remarries, to a hot 20-something. Meanwhile, author and shopping channel host Miranda has a secret. Meanwhile, sisters Jesse and Gabi live next door to each other but their redneck racist homophobic parents don't know that one of them is gay and the other is married to an Indian. Meanwhile, Bradley, father of two girls (one of whom is newcomer Ella Anderson as plain but likeable almost-pubescent daughter Vicky) is still having difficulty in getting past the death of his wife over a year ago. Meanwhile, Zach wants to marry Kristin, mother of their daughter, but she has an issue. And Mother's Day is coming up... Like its predecessors in Garry Marshall's holiday romance anthology series, this film is broadly likeable, populated by a good cast, featuring multiple, lightly interlinked threads where quite nice people face not very serious problems which get neatly and sometimes improbably resolved by the end, and which leaves you with very little aftertaste. It's all pretty inconsequential.That's not to say it's bad - it's too anodyne to be bad, but it's like a meal which is pleasant enough to eat but afterwards you wonder why you didn't choose something with a bit more spice in it.I was going to say that there's nothing to take offence at, but the sisters' racist homophobic parents are fairly offensive. As someone with a moderate sense of dramatic structure, however, I found their utterly unjustified (from the point of view of character) change of attitude even more offensive: the film provided no reason why they shouldn't have been as racist and homophobic at the end as they were at the start.Did it matter? Probably not. Nothing in this film matters very much. It's like spending a pleasant evening in the company of some people you're friends, but not deep friends, with. Next day you can't even remember what you talked about..

Since Amazon Prime kept pushing this movie on me, I finally gave in and downloaded it to watch on a trip and even though it didn't cost me anything, I still feel like I should get something back for my effort. This was the most predictable and lazily written movie I have seen since, well, any number of the other formulaic tripe that we see come out of LaLa land. The actors had to know what a poor script this was. They probably got paid a lot just to show up and recite thier lines. Here is your formula checklist just to make sure we aren't missing anything hung. The single dad has to buy tampons for his teenage daughter and the cashier has to call for a price check? Check. The racist parents from Texas who only drink American beers and hates gay people? Check. The same parents don't know that their one daughter is gay and in a committed relationship? Check. The other daughter is married to a man from a different culture? Check. A successful entrepreneur who doesn't have kids and is so focused on her career? Check. The same woman is hiding the fact she had a child at one time? Check. A divorced mom who soon discovers her ex husband's much younger new wife isn't so bad after all? Check. I could go on and on and on which it what it seems like this movie does as it fills in its movie paint-by-number script. There isn't one funny line in the entire movie. Even the stand up comedian doesn't have one funny joke but gets a lot of laughs during his sets. He even wins a stand up contest with his "improv" about his baby (which wasn't funny at all). Here are a couple of other notes I mentally took as I zoned out listening to this movie: A child with asthma who has an attack while at his step mom's house. Step calls bio mom in panic because the inhaler is empty. Bio first tells step to put him near an open freezer because it helps him breathe (SINCE WHEN HAS THIS EVER BEEN THE CASE FOR AN ASTHMATIC?) but second, tells step that there is a back up inhaler in his backpack. Don't you think you would mention that first. And don't you think the kid would know that too?? For the storyline regarding the racist parents, how could they have not known about their daughter's husband and grandson that is at least 8 years old? They haven't even spoken in that amount of time but suddenly show up as a surprise for mother's day? What about the big holidays like Christmas, or milestone birthdays? The town holds a Mother's Day parade?with floats and things. Huh? I have never heard of such a thing. Have you? The interior designer has a website that looks like a page from 1995 in a beginning html class. I wouldn't hire a designer with a site done so poorly. This was such a waste of the talents of Julia Roberts, Asif Mandi, Jason Sudekis, Jennifer Aniston, and others. And it's a sad way to remember Garry Marshall.

The plot line ages Roberts at just 40 years old or younger and they have her looking older than her actual 48.