Mom's Night Out is a movie only a mother could love.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 15, 2014

If the concept of a moms' night out is premised on the notion that mothers can never get away for fear their families will collapse in their absence, then this movie cruelly confirms that fear.

| May 11, 2014

What ensues is frenetic and never as funny as it should be because directing brothers Andrew and Jon Erwin are not skilled enough at pacing the action and varying the volume.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 9, 2014

Basically, the moral of the story is: Don't go out. Because if you do, all hell will break loose - or rather, all heck.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 9, 2014

Some of these plot twists require more than the normal suspension of logic that often happens in similar comedies. Yet the characters are all appealing.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 8, 2014

Seldom has wackiness been as tedious as it is in "Moms' Night Out," a Christian-themed film that is desperate to make adherents seem wild and crazy but mostly makes them seem incapable of raising children.

| May 8, 2014

It's rare that a movie fails on absolutely every level, but "Moms' Night Out" is a remarkably vivid example.

| Original Score: 0/4 | May 8, 2014

What this PG comedy lacks in cursing, it also comes up short on plot, character development, originality, and overall pleasure.

| Original Score: C- | May 8, 2014

While the characters are mostly one-dimensional and the children here merely props, whiny and overwhelmed main mom Allyson proves a particularly galling, unfunny creation.

| May 8, 2014

There's no fun to be had - and not a drop of originality - in this chaotic and contrived mess.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 8, 2014

"Moms' Night Out" possesses the production values and awkward pacing of a lame amateur production with big ambitions.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 8, 2014

"Moms' Night Out" is really all about moms staying home, where, according to this movie, they apparently belong.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 8, 2014

Too-long, one-joke scenes with a flakey restaurant hostess (Anjelah Johnson) and a dim-witted clerk in a tattoo parlour (Manwell Reyes) are typical of the sins of lengthy excess committed by Mom's Night Out.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 8, 2014

The Christian agenda here is far more welcoming and less assaultive than previous attempts of its kind. As a movie, Mom's Night Out has more practical problems than the gentle sermon buried between the lines.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 8, 2014

The film never seems hectoring or preachy. Unfortunately, it never seems funny either, coming across like a sanitized remake of some raunchier laughfest.

| Original Score: C- | May 8, 2014

The first half of this mommy-comedy could be charitably deemed "gently amusing." But it's hard to find new laugh riots in kids trashing a house, and there's no evidence anyone tried.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 8, 2014

Outrageously enough, the moral of Moms' Night Out seems to be that moms should never get a night out.

| May 6, 2014

A very funny movie with an exceptionally likeable cast and a warm-hearted, surprisingly touching tribute to moms and their families.

| Original Score: B+ | May 4, 2014

A shrill feature-length sitcom for the faith-based family values crowd, if nowhere near as good as that sounds.

| May 2, 2014