One would think that getting the opportunity to make three movies using the same format might inspire a filmmaker to hone the technique along the way, but nope. Not director Garry Marshall. He seems perfectly content with delivering a new movie that’s just as trite, mawkish, painfully unfunny and manipulative as Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve. Similar to those two films, Mother’s Day features four interconnecting stories. There’s Jason Sudeikis as Henry, a guy trying to raise his two daughters by himself after his wife passes. We’ve also got Jennifer Aniston as Sandy, a mother of two boys who struggles with the fact that her ex (Timothy Olyphant) married a much younger woman. There’s also Kate Hudson’s Jesse who avoids her parents because they don’t approve of her interracial marriage, and Britt Robertson as Kristin, a new mother in the process of tracking down her own birth mother.The movie is as uninspired as they come. It’s a predictable paint-by-numbers script packed with dated jokes, contrived slapstick humor, insultingly unrealistic family drama and sets that are as fake as Ikea displays. The performances are serviceable, but they all reek of the bare minimum. The script certainly isn’t doing the actors any favors, but the fact that no one brings any nuance to his or her role makes the material even more unbearable.