Sadly, none of these individual “stories” are funny or have much of an emotional core to anchor them, and with the exception of some cliché possibilities with the Jennifer Aniston/Jason Sudeikis’s storyline, it would be hard to imagine even one of these stories being stretched to be even one compelling feature film. I’m not saying that’s impossible or ridiculous, but the out-of-date ideas this movie has about things like marriage and adoption stand out. Aniston perpetually sees a romantic possibility in the form of a recent widower played by Jason Sudeikis, and then there’s a young mother (Britt Robertson) resistant to marrying her stand-up comedian boyfriend-not because she has radical ideas about marriage or something, but because she has abandonment issues because she was adopted. Jennifer Aniston’s divorced from a nice guy played by Timothy Olyphant (although, he’s not that nice when you really think about it- surprise), who marries a younger woman (Shay Mitchell). Her sister (Sarah Chalke) still talks to her parents, despite being gay and keeping that part of her life secret, and when Hudson tries to make amends, the racist parents return and find out she married that Indian man (played by Aasif Mandvi). There’s Kate Hudson, who hasn’t spoken to her bigoted mother (Margo Martindale) for years after dating an Indian man. This one takes place over multiple days (I think a week, but I could be wrong about that) and focuses on basically three stories (maybe four, depending on how you divide things up). Unlike his other two installments, Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve (even as plane movies, they’re hard to watch), Mother’s Day breaks the mold-a little. Recently, Garry Marshall has started his own mini-movie franchise with holiday movies, clearly inspired by the modern-day Christmas classic Love Actually (comparisons stop there). Basically, Captain America: Civil War is expected to take number one for at least a couple of weeks, but knowing more than a few people who will not be venturing to theaters to see that movie (let’s call them “my parents”), I did have to issue a warning to my mother in case she planned a movie night out with friends or her sisters this holiday weekend: If you’re going to see something for Mother’s Day … don’t see Mother’s Day. This weekend, the biggest cinematic franchise in history will put yet another installment notch on their belt.