Moms Night Out (DVD REVIEW)
Moms'
Night Out
DVD Review by Kam Williams
Faith-Based Family Flick Finds Its Way to DVD
Allyson Field
(Sarah Drew) really can’t complain. After all, her life is the epitome of the
American Dream. She has a handsome husband who adores her and is an excellent
provider, too. She has a beautiful home in suburbia and her own minivan for
shopping and shuttling around their hyperactive children, Beck (Zion Spargo),
Bailey (Shiloh Nelson) and Brandon (Michael Leone).
Yet, she’s still
overwhelmed by her domestic duties sometimes, especially when Sean’s (Sean
Astin) work takes him out of town. Consider Mother’s Day, for example, which
Ally recently spent cleaning up messes rather than being pampered like a
princess.
Not alone in
feeling frazzled, Ally hatches a plan with her BFFs, Sondra (Patricia Heaton)
and Izzy (Andrea Logan White) to treat themselves to an evening of bowling and
fine dining in a fancy restaurant next Saturday, assuming that their hubbies
can babysit for a few hours without incident. That erroneous assumption
jumpstarts the comedy of errors which ensues soon after Sean and the other
hapless spouses (Alex Kendrick and Robert Amaya) do their best to fill-in.
Yet, when a baby
turns-up missing, guess who’s recruited to join the frantic search party. With
the help of a buff biker with a heart of gold (Trace Adkins) and an impatient
cabbie (David Hunt) with a British accent, the girls put their getaway on hold
as their maternal instincts kick-in.
Co-directed by
Jon and Andrew Erwin, Moms’ Night Out is a wholesome, PG-rated comedy that you
can actually watch with the kids. It’s also a faith-based film, though not
heavy handed, ostensibly-designed with the Christian Evangelical community in
mind.
By the madcap
misadventure’s happy resolution, sanity and safety are satisfactorily restored.
More importantly, the wives are no longer taken for granted, but elevated to
the lofty status envisioned by William Ross Wallace in the appreciative refrain
“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”
A family-friendly
testament to motherhood.
Very Good (3 stars)
Rated
PG for mild action and mature themes
Running
time: 98 minutes
Distributor:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD
Extras: Deleted scenes; bloopers reel; Commentary with co-directors Jon and Andrew Erwin and producer Kevin Downes; The Heart
of Moms' Night Out; Casting Moms' Night Out; The Art of Improv; and The
Art of Action.
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