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Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Mark LaPorta The dogma of religious and social politics are, in the end, mere scenery. You could put this independent ditty in any social setting where behavior and expectations are scrutinized. I think a successful 12-stepper in particular would recognize the elementary purity of the message. A pleasant surprise. Drugs and alcohol are represented, by analogy and metaphor, as symptoms rather than as root cause, of the manifestations of character defects and the interactions of personal and societal expectations. Conflict-> resolution. Crucifixion -- by self and circumstances -- resurrection and ascension; virtue as its own reward. No different than Return of the Jedi, in that sense, and a lot less noise.

KineticSeoul This didn't seem like a movie that bashed on Christians. But how sometimes people can fall for protecting their own reputations, their own pride and ego, and to prove their worth to people. Instead of genuinely moving because of love and affection for each other through Christ. C'mon nobody likes to be hovered over by someone else, especially by people they hardly know. And be judged upon constantly, even with smug and arrogant stares. This movie just seemed to show how it can cause Christians downfall if they have the wrong motives in mind and not Christ-centered. The plot is basically about a Catholic woman that is overly obsessed with her Christian reputation and winning the Catholic woman award at her church. But also having to deal with a lesbian daughter and a son that left his wife that he didn't love for someone else. This is a relatable movie since I met certain Christians that are portrayed in this movie. Especially people that fall for the logo over the symbol that should be stood up for with genuine heart and right motives without judgmental eyes. But overall it just quickly became dull and boring. Sure sometimes a rehash of real life in movie form can be entertaining but just not so much in this case. There just wasn't much emotion or attention grabbing aspect about this movie.4.5/10

Maya J Kathleen Turner was great as a neurotic and psychopathic mom in Serial Mother. When I watched the trailer of The Perfect Mother, I laughed, and so I expected to find in it the same folly as in John Waters' comedy. Eileen Cleary is a mother and a devout catholic. She happens to be nominated against her best enemy for the award of the catholic woman of the year. If she wins, she will receive the greatest prize : the absolution of her sins. To be elected, she needs to be assiduous at church and in her charity works, but she also needs to have a perfect family. The trouble is, her husband is a former alcoholic, her son has just left his wife and kids for the manicurist next door, and her daughter is gay, and pregnant. The accumulation of clichés as obstacles can be funny in a comedy, but not here. The film – except for some good lines and Turner's acting – is pretty boring. I didn't laugh, I barely smiled. It takes ages to actually start, and when it does, it doesn't go very far. Eileen is in a quandary : she has to choose between her family and her faith. What will she do ? I mean come on, this is a comedy, we all know how it is going to end. The problem is not the end really. The problem is that the scenes that are supposed to illustrate Eileen's conflict with her family, and her own dilemma, are not funny, but they are not sad either, or deep. The film remains on the surface so as not to shock anyone. It remains politically correct, full of good intentions, so of course, it fails as a comedy, and it also fails as a drama. Don't waste your time watching more than the trailer.Read my other reviews on http://filmcritiks.wordpress.com/

Anatomedics The movie world hasn't gotten bad enough I guess. I have barely seen a good movie for a long time come out of Hollywood. This one is, to me, just awful and thrown together, not as a story, but a few scenes to push someone's obvious disdain across about something they passionately hate. In this case, this is a person with a tremendous hatred for the Catholic Church....It is one of the worst films to come along in ages. And, by the way, incorrect in every way. The film contains all the usual anti-Catholic prejudice, invented and targeted humor, it touches purposely on all of the areas of concern in society such as premarital sex and homosexuality, abortion theme and some bad language. Just anything an anti-Catholic, anti-intellectual movie company could possibly gather together to make a film...It doesn't fool me though, it didn't change my feeling at all about my church....Shame on this.