‘Safe’ films along the lines of comic book adaptations, prequels, sequels, remakes that literally no one asked for, and chucking Chris Pratt as the lead in everything (not a bad thing, per se) make up a decent to middling proportion of your local box office.
But some ideas are just a tired old trope that need to be laid to rest.
Namely: the calendar holiday movie told through multiple stories that we first saw in in ‘Love Actually‘, then in ‘Valentine’s Day‘, then ‘New Years Eve‘, and now, like the wilting lettuce left too long in the fridge leftover from a salad you made last April, ‘Mother’s Day‘.
Yup – ‘Mother’s Day’ the film is happening.
Garry Marshall, who directed the Valentine’s and NYE films but is best known for casting Hector Elizondo in absolutely everything, is back at the helm.
Julia Roberts is on board, and negotiations with Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, and Jason Sudeikis are reportedly under way. Expect 20+ more actors to throw their hats into the ring for 10 minutes of screen time, their face on the poster, and buckets of cash. Thus is the nature of holiday bastardising, multi viewpoint storytelling, celebrity-heavy films.
Look, unless Taylor Swift is back carrying around a giant teddy bear and showing off her sick dance moves, I don’t want to know about it.
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