Get Your Mommy On

 

I discovered a movie about a year ago that I think is an excellent family film and I wholeheartedly recommend it to all of you.  There is no cussing and no smoking or drinking alcohol by any of the main characters.  I would say there is no violence either except that I think most viewers will sympathize with those who commit the acts…and those who receive them.  Well, no people get killed anyway, although one character threatens to murder an aura, and a poor parakeet named Momma gets sat on.

Um, I think the aura deserved it.

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Of course, you can probably understand why I was instantly captivated by the fact that the main character is a blogger…a mommy blogger to be exact.

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The movie starts by showing how stressed out the young mom, Ally (Sarah Drew)   is.  She seems to be at the end of her rope and suffers from what she calls “moments” those times when she loses control because she is totally overwhelmed by her children and the things they do.  Well, you have to add in stress provided by her sister-in-law Bridget (Abbie Cobb), who’s a single mother, and, well, life in general.

Ally and her husband Sean (Sean Astin) are the parents of three kids: two normal boys and an adorable daughter who does an incredible job of stealing every scene she appears in.

Izzy (Andrea Logan White) has been Ally’s best friend since grade school.  Her husband Marco (Robert Amaya) is deathly afraid of luchadores, biker gangs, and small children, all of whom will play a part in the movie.  Izzy and Marco have young toddler-age twins and, early in the show, Izzy finds out she is pregnant.

More anxiety.

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The preacher’s wife Sondra (Patricia Heaton) is stressed too but keeps up at least the front of a cool demeanor.

The main premise of the movie is that long-suffering parents can survive, as long as they keep plugging away.  You know, the normal stress that comes with children who draw on the living room wall with permanent markers, play in the toilet, and insist on helping Mama put on her makeup…in the van…on the way to church.

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Ally, Izzy, and Sondra decide to take a night off from being mommies.  They set up a dinner at “Chez Magique”, an upscale restaurant with an over-inflated ego.  Once there they have a disagreement with the receptionist about whether “next Saturday” means “the next one that exists” or “the next Saturday following the current week you are in”.

Yeah.

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Meanwhile, Sean and Marco, with the help of Sean’s childhood (and child-ISH) friend, (Kevin Downes) are trying to take care of the little ones.  They take the five kids to a Chucky Cheese-like playplace where one of them wastes no time getting stuck in one of the games…again.  Though the kid is extricated with no injury, at least to himself (remember that), company policy requires a trip to the hospital for a checkup, just to be sure.

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Since the ladies have locked their cell phones in the minivan, the men can’t reach them to explain that they are going to take the van…or why.

See where we’re going?

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The women don’t know to look for the car when they discover their van has been taken so they can’t find a vehicle when they need to go get the sister-in-law’s son, who was left at a tattoo parlor.

What?

Well, the parlor owner thinks it’s not a good idea to keep a baby in a tattoo parlor so the little one is in the possession of a former alcoholic pole dancer who may have gone off the wagon.

“It seems your baby is the drinkin’ partner of a relapsing alcoholic.”

So what do they do?  Well, they enlist the help of a British taxi driver and the tattoo parlor owner, whose name is Bones (Trace Adkins) and who swears he has a past with Sandra, the preacher’s wife.  Did I mention that the parlor owner is a biker?

Remember Marco?

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The remainder of the movie involves twenty questions with a dull-witted tattoo parlor receptionist…and an inopportune tazing.  Oh, and an unfortunate pepper spraying too.

And where does Donny Osmond fit in to all this?

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Honestly, there are a lot of life lessons in “Moms’ Night Out.”  We learn such things as there’s a lot of good in people you might misjudge; everybody makes mistakes; and don’t waste your time expecting perfection out of other people, or even yourself.

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This Mothers’ Day, treat your favorite mother, or yourself.  Take a couple hours, pop some popcorn and watch “Moms’ Night Out.”

You’ll be glad you did.

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And Ally’s blog is a hit…eventually.

 

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