Vue Thurrock: Mother's Day

If you remember the ensemble-star type film Valentine's Day and then New Year's eve you will by now start to appreciate that a new genre of film may well have been captured, namely the "Holiday film" basically a style of cinema depicted in "Love Actually" where we get to dip in and out of a number of inter-connected stories and characters themed around a holiday occasion; this time its Mothers Days, all of who are supposed to be endearing and attractive to us but all with their own vulnerabilities that we can engage with on a human level. And thus it is with Mother's Day.
The story centres around three generation of mothers, all with various predicaments. The divorced mum of 2 (Jennifer Aniston) coping with her ex shacked up with a new younger women, the career women (Julia Roberts) who's shunning of family life masks its own secret, a widower (not a mum, but Jason Sudeikis) coping to raise 2 daughters,  two sisters both married but with race issues relating to their bigoted parents; one of the sisters (Kate Hudson) is married to an Indian guy. The film picks its way through these individual's life issues as the sisters work to placate the bigoted parents, the career women while rich and well-to-do suffers in silence over her own personal emptiness at not having the maternal luxury that we all do. This film is essentially. . .well, just think Love Actually, then substitute Christmas for Mother's Day, substituent the good performances for cringe inducing boredom, and take out all the laughs and you have something of what's truly on offer here.
The concept of it being Mother's Day is of course a marginal point, the film could easily be set anytime really but details like that are not what grates, it's how a film so lacking in genuine wit or charm could ever actually get made is staggering. In short avoid like Ebola.