Leaving the kids at home with dad has never been a good idea.
The film Moms’ Nights Out, with its immature plot and lazy character development leaves viewers confused and lost. Despite having decent acting and an adequate script, the disconnect with the viewers overshadows all positive aspects.
The film revolves around Allyson (Sarah Drew), a young mother who plans a dinner with her best friend Izzy (Andrea Logan White) and the local pastor’s wife Sondra (Patricia Heaton), however their night turns into a wild chase across the town for their children.
The main bulk of the film follows the mothers interminable search for Ally’s sister-in-law’s (Abbie Cobb) missing baby. With scenes rapidly switching from Tattoo parlors to police stations to a plucky British cab driver (Hunt), fisticuffs, car chases and a motorcycle gang, it all factors in to the films lack of a focused plot.
With the film taking about half an hour to finally introduce the storyline and conflict, “Moms night out” was a failure from the start. Throughout the film there were several patches of boring and uninteresting scenes which had no part in furthering the plot resulting in confusion among viewers.
Adding to the confusion was a wide range of random and unimportant characters being thrown into the story with no background. While the characters are mostly one-dimensional and, whiny and overwhelmed mom Allyson proves a particularly pestering, unfunny creation. This lack of character depth leaves viewers at a disconnect
With lazy attempts at humor and comedy through the film, ultimately “Moms’ Night Out” is left possessing the qualities of a lame amateur production with big, unfulfilled ambitions.
Overall the film was a hectic mess of characters and plot. There was nothing keeping the story together much more than terrible jokes and new character landing the film as a failure.
This film is rated PG and is playing in theaters Nationwide
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