Moms' Night Out

Name: Moms' Night Out
Director: Andrew Erwin
Released: 2014

Synopsis

Yearning for an evening without their kids, some friends plan a night out. But to do this, their husbands need to watch the kids. What can go wrong?

42
The A.V. Club
The film never seems hectoring or preachy. Unfortunately, it never seems funny either, coming across like a sanitized remake of some raunchier laughfest.
42
Entertainment Weekly
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.
40
The Dissolve
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.
38
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Mom’s Night Out sets itself up for laughs that it rarely delivers.
38
New York Post
Consistently stale but not altogether unpleasant.
25
Washington Post
[A] strained, clunkily orchestrated and dismally retrograde film.
20
Variety
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.
20
TheWrap
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.