Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
½ star/4
'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' is what Sylvester Stallone considers to be his worst movie, and he has never stopped trashing it ever since it came out. It's bad. Really, really bad. In this movie, Stallone, the ultra assured, self-confident movie star that we have come to know and love in most of his movies, is sleepwalking through here. It's almost like he doesn't care. In hindsight, he didn't actually do the movie for his career, but rather to compete against Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's an old story, but what happened was the two were huge rivals, and when Stallone was offered the movie, he originally turned it down. When he heard Schwarzenegger was thinking about the part, Stallone jumped at it first to get him back. And boy, it really seems like Stallone is out to lunch in this movie, hell, he seems like he's out to Nobu, not caring about a single thing. It's an idiotic mess of a movie, and that's made dreadfully clear during the opening scenes, which are so boring I can't even believe I got through the first ten minutes. Granted, the rest of the movie has more interest than in the opening, but that's not saying much, because some scenes are almost torture.
The film's plot is about as thin as paper, following Stallone, who plays Sgt. Joe Bomowski, a tough cop, when he gets a visit from his mother Tutti (Estelle Getty), who still treats him like a ten year old. She tries to make his life better, but just creates more problems for him.
Getty is fine, she does what she can here, but she's a long way from her 'Golden Girls' role. I cannot believe I am saying this, but I laughed. Once. Just once. When Tutti gets off the plane, everyone greets Joe at the terminal, and knows exactly who he is. They all say hi, and Joe wonders what happened on the plane. It turns out that his mom was sharing baby pictures and telling stories about him to everyone on the plane. I laughed at this, because, well, it was funny.
But some of the other jokes are just lame. There is a scene where Estelle Getty points a gun at Stallone, to which she says, "Go ahead, make your bed". This is a script so inept in itself that it wouldn't even count for a terrible episode of 'Golden Girls'. The only redeeming element of the movie is Getty, who does alright. Everyone else, wow.
This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen, and I cannot believe that it got a laugh out of me. But, it did. Oh well.
½ star/4
'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' is what Sylvester Stallone considers to be his worst movie, and he has never stopped trashing it ever since it came out. It's bad. Really, really bad. In this movie, Stallone, the ultra assured, self-confident movie star that we have come to know and love in most of his movies, is sleepwalking through here. It's almost like he doesn't care. In hindsight, he didn't actually do the movie for his career, but rather to compete against Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's an old story, but what happened was the two were huge rivals, and when Stallone was offered the movie, he originally turned it down. When he heard Schwarzenegger was thinking about the part, Stallone jumped at it first to get him back. And boy, it really seems like Stallone is out to lunch in this movie, hell, he seems like he's out to Nobu, not caring about a single thing. It's an idiotic mess of a movie, and that's made dreadfully clear during the opening scenes, which are so boring I can't even believe I got through the first ten minutes. Granted, the rest of the movie has more interest than in the opening, but that's not saying much, because some scenes are almost torture.
The film's plot is about as thin as paper, following Stallone, who plays Sgt. Joe Bomowski, a tough cop, when he gets a visit from his mother Tutti (Estelle Getty), who still treats him like a ten year old. She tries to make his life better, but just creates more problems for him.
Getty is fine, she does what she can here, but she's a long way from her 'Golden Girls' role. I cannot believe I am saying this, but I laughed. Once. Just once. When Tutti gets off the plane, everyone greets Joe at the terminal, and knows exactly who he is. They all say hi, and Joe wonders what happened on the plane. It turns out that his mom was sharing baby pictures and telling stories about him to everyone on the plane. I laughed at this, because, well, it was funny.
But some of the other jokes are just lame. There is a scene where Estelle Getty points a gun at Stallone, to which she says, "Go ahead, make your bed". This is a script so inept in itself that it wouldn't even count for a terrible episode of 'Golden Girls'. The only redeeming element of the movie is Getty, who does alright. Everyone else, wow.
This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen, and I cannot believe that it got a laugh out of me. But, it did. Oh well.