Moms' Night Out
Provident Films | Release Date: May 9, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
25
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
15
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
Chicago Sun-TimesBill ZweckerMay 8, 2014
The life lessons about morals and values are soft-pedaled pretty well and packaged in a mostly funny romp as the trio of mothers’ night-on-the-town turns in all sorts of bizarre and wacky ways. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenMay 12, 2014
Without creating fully fleshed characters or truly involving conflict, the film aims instead to provoke howls of recognition and tears of gratitude by appealing to very basic notions of parent-child love. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyMarc SnetikerMay 8, 2014
It's a shame that this glossy production doesn't seem to realize it's actually promoting an altogether different message: when moms dare to leave the house, everything goes wrong. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloMay 7, 2014
The film never seems hectoring or preachy. Unfortunately, it never seems funny either, coming across like a sanitized remake of some raunchier laughfest. Read full review
40
The DissolveNathan RabinMay 8, 2014
It’s a passable knock-off of less-godly but more inspired secular fare, which may not sound like high praise, but is clearly all the filmmakers were aiming for. They set the bar low enough to clear it. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireMay 9, 2014
It wants to inspire as well as entertain. It’s "The Hangover" aimed at Christian audiences, and if that sounds like an impossible prospect, well, that’s because it is. Read full review
38
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeMay 7, 2014
Consistently stale but not altogether unpleasant. Read full review
38
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMay 7, 2014
Mom’s Night Out sets itself up for laughs that it rarely delivers. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisMay 14, 2014
The movie aspires to be an inspirational screwball comedy of sorts about the stresses of motherhood, but the situational humor lacks the spontaneity necessary for some crazy fun. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMay 10, 2014
A weird mix of tired jokes, topicality, and crippling anxiety. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinMay 8, 2014
Moms' Night Out is a hectic mess that does just the opposite of what it clearly set out to do: It makes motherhood seem like one of the most ill-conceived ideas since New Coke. Read full review
29
Film.comKate ErblandMay 10, 2014
Plainly unfunny. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorMay 9, 2014
Mainly, you have to wonder why Allyson doesn’t just hire a nanny, find a job and get out of the house. Ah, but this is a Christian movie, and once it stops pelting an audience with comic incident, it begins preaching. Read full review
25
USA TodayClaudia PuigMay 8, 2014
Mothers deserve a much better break than the hectic, shrill and dismally unpleasant Moms' Night Out. Read full review
25
Washington PostAnn HornadayMay 8, 2014
[A] strained, clunkily orchestrated and dismally retrograde film. Read full review
20
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerMay 8, 2014
Little of it is funny or genuine, and the benefits and beauty of real faith are nowhere in evidence. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanMay 8, 2014
There’s nothing inherently wrong with faith-based entertainment. The problem comes when, as with any heavily slanted perspective, the faith takes precedence over the entertainment. Read full review
20
Village VoiceHeather BaysaMay 6, 2014
Outrageously enough, the moral of Moms' Night Out seems to be that moms should never get a night out. Read full review
20
TheWrapInkoo KangMay 6, 2014
Directed by brothers Andrew and Jon Erwin, this ostensible femme-powerment film is strangely unsympathetic, even demeaning, to its target audience. Rather than pandering to moms, this unfunny, unabashedly anti-feminist comedy consistently points out how wrong or unnecessary or ungrateful they are. Read full review
20
VarietyJustin ChangMay 5, 2014
There’s nothing wrong with Moms’ Night Out that couldn’t be fixed by a massive rewrite, preferably one that involves a lobotomy for the main character. Read full review
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