Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) User Reviews

"Listen to your mother!"

[The_Movie_Cat · 5/10 · 14 November 2000]

I have little to say about this movie other than it is nowhere near as bad as I'd been led to believe. Actually quite amusing in places, it will strike a chord with anyone who has an interfering mother (and God knows I have!) as Estelle Getty invades Stallone's life.

I fail to see the reason for all the bad spirit directed at this film. The incidental music is a little repetitive and it's admittedly a one-joke plot. But it is a fairly good joke, and would have made for a superb hour-length TV movie. Unfortunately it's a 90 minute cinema film and so doesn't maintain its momentum all the way through.

I've seen people criticise the film for Stallone not getting to be "funny" in this movie. I mean, have you heard of a straight man?? Sylvester's contribution to the comedy is his underplayed reaction to his mother's obsessive behaviour. What do you expect him to do, dress up and tell jokes?

Admittedly, the surprisingly violent aspects of the film don't sit well, and it's hard to laugh at Getty when she's just shot a man and splattered his blood all over an airplane runway. Another problem is that her chemistry with Stallone isn't as pin-sharp as it could be; the two leave notable pauses in between lines. Maybe a few more takes could have honed up the reaction time, but generally it's fine, and Stallone really makes an effort to make it work.

Not an all-time classic, certainly, but a pleasant enough film to pass a Sunday afternoon. Just don't listen to the nay-sayers, watch it yourself and make up your own mind. 5/10.

about the movie

[denitsaf · 5/10 · 19 April 2011]

I think the movie is funny, despite Sly says it's the worst movie he has ever made! It's the first Stallone movie I've seen, so I am emotionally devoted to it! Estelle Getty is so cheerful, full of life and energy and Sly is sexy! If only it was 1992 and he was my man:) It's not fair that the film won Razzie for worst actor, screenplay and supporting actress! Well, maybe it didn't deserve Oscar, but it didn't deserve Razzie either! Besides, compared to movies of today Stop... is just genius! Turned me back in time when music and cinema were just another! Rest in peace, Estelle Getty! And Sylvester is one of the greatest actors of all time!

Well Played Schwarzenegger

[slightlymad22 · 5/10 · 24 January 2016]

Continuing my plan to watch every Sly Stallone movie in order, I come to the movie he considers the worst of his career. 1992's Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot.

Plot In A Paragraph: A tough police sergeant (Stallone) has his life turned upside down, when his mother (Estelle Getty) comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and ends up being the prime witness in a drive by shooting.

Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger were competing against each other at that time this was made, and Arnold faked interest in this movie in order to make Sylvester go for it. Stallone who heard that Arnold was interested in headlining in this movie, fell for it and immediately dropped everything and contacted the producers, saying that he wanted to headline. He deeply regrets this.

For this reviewer, it is the lowest point of his post 'Rocky' career so far. As with 'Oscar' Stallone is clearly trying hard, and Getty brings the fun she brought to TV's 'Golden Girls' but it misses on so many levels. It is not without its moments, and anyone with an over bearing mother can certainly relate, but I actually struggled to make it to the end, despite a short running time.

Very funny

[vchimpanzee · 17 July 2007]

Los Angeles police detective Joe Bomowski isn't as tough as he looks. He's actually quite vulnerable, if you look at his romantic relationship with Lt. Gwen Harper. And his mother is coming from Newark for a visit. This time, she didn't answer the phone, figuring it would be Joe telling her why she couldn't come.

So when Joe arrives at the airport to pick her up, everyone is laughing at him. Even flight attendants. They've all seen the photos and heard the embarrassing stories. And on the way to his house, Joe has to help a man who is threatening to jump from a tall building. Don't worry--one of the classic moments in the history of comedy movies guarantees a happy outcome here.

And Joe's mom witnesses a murder. This is after she has cleaned his apartment, pleaded with him not to do anything dangerous, and done everything else possible to make him feel like a second-grader. But she won't let anyone work on the case except her son--which also means she has to be his partner! How is this possible? She's so tough she won't let anyone scare her with threats of arrest for providing false information to the police. And Joe's mom can do it all! Watch her drive the car in a chase scene. And the movie's title is a line spoken by her son to a suspect.

The amazing thing is that when he was 13, Joe was the strong one when his father died. So his mom knows what he is capable of. Her explanation of how he handled the situation gives the movie one of its several tender moments.

I shouldn't have listened when people said this film was bad. I would have seen it so much sooner. Estelle Getty was great, and while Sylvester Stallone didn't seem quite suited to this type of role, he was good enough. I liked the character. But, yes, he can do comedy. Remember "Oscar"? I remember I liked him in that.

I liked several other performances. Dennis Burkley as the big tough gun salesman (the one with the van), and Nicholas Sadler as the man on the ledge (I thought he was one of the Lawrence brothers!). And as always, Gailard Sartain as a big buffoon of a bad guy. And JoBeth Williams as Gwen. I can't forget her.

This is my kind of movie, and while it's obviously not Oscar material, it's quite entertaining.

Stop or Else there will Be a Sequel

[Brassknuckle Sandwich · 1/10 · 10 November 2001]

I'm a self-admitted lover of cheese films: in other words, I am a cinematic masochist with a threshold for celluloid pain that would give Ah-nold's Terminator a run for the money, but 'Stop, or my Mom will Shoot' is painful in a way that a shot of morphine, a handful of codeine, and a dozen shots of whiskey cannot overcome.

Speaking of the Terminator, there are very few stars whose careers could survive a beating like the one dished out by 'Stop, or my Mom will Shoot', but Stallone survived long enough to resurrect his career with Demolition Man and Cliffhanger. The rest of the cast was not so fortunate, and since then has only been seen on milk cartons under the caption, "Have you seen me?".

Imagine my disappointment in finding that this turkey managed, somehow, to escape the bottom 100 list, despite being widely acknowledged as one of the worst attempts at comedy since Police Academy 6. That this steaming pile rates a 3.1 makes me question whether or not the online voters have been subjected to lobotomies or their minds were so severely damaged by this film that they are no longer capable of making sound decisions.

Stop this movie! Or I'll shoot Sylvester Stallone.

[MovieAddict2016 · 1/10 · 11 November 2005]

"Stop or My Mom Will Shoot" is probably one of the most unintentionally funny films ever made. It's not just that it's bad - it's pathetic. Every time it tries to be witty or clever or smart it slips up.

Sylvester Stallone plays Joe Bomowski (I wonder of what ethnic background they want us to think he belongs to??), a big city cop whose pesky little mother Tutti (Estelle Getty) comes to visit him and manages to single-handedly destroy his life.

First she makes a mockery of his job by visiting the police after reporting herself to be a witness of a murder. Soon the pair - mother and son - are teaming up to track down a mother-killer and...oh yeah...in between we get loads of lame gags about how desperately aggravating mothers can be.

This would have been a really great film - if it were three minutes long. The material is barely enough to sustain a "Saturday Night Live" skit - even then it would be aggravating. The plot is cutesy - so are all the gags, lines and characters. I felt like b****-slapping Estelle Getty and you know there's something wrong when you want to beat up an old woman.

The plot basically works like this, scene after scene: 1. Annoying Mother Figure tries to control Son's life.

2. Son is angry. He tells her he likes having his underwear strewn across the floor and likes to leave the seat up.

3. Annoying Mother Figure tells him he'll never get a wife this way, and mentions his ex-girlfriend who left him.

4. Son Figure rolls his eyes and says "Oh Mom, don't bring that up again." 5. Aggravating Mother Figure says a cute one-liner.

6. Put-Upon Son looks put-upon.

Repeat and rinse. Voila - one huge turd of a film.

One of the quotes from the movie is, "His ass was grass, and I was the lawnmower." I felt shame on the producers' behalf that they even made Estelle Getty utter this line. It's really sad. It's utterly pathetic.

Stallone was nominated for another Raspberry Award for his performance. Believe it or not he gives a GOOD performance. Really good. That's part of the problem - his above-average acting makes the film seem even more desperate. There's an argument between him and JoBeth Williams in one scene and his acting is really good; it's convincing. But the rest of the film isn't.

Stallone tried to have this banned from being released onto DVD and I believe he's succeeded so far. Rent it out on video or watch it on TV and see for yourself why it's his least favorite film he's made in a career of some pretty bad films.

Not really useless, but...

[Finntroll · 3/10 · 26 November 2004]

Sly Stallone, the big action hero of the eighties, decided for reasons unknown to do this "comedy" along with, get this, Estelle Getty! Unfortunately it works bad as a comedy, the jokes are just not funny, it also tries to be an action and a romantic comedy, which it doesn't work as either.

This movie just doesn't function. OK? The reason I don't give it lower than this, is because I loved it when i was about ten years old, for some strange reason I thought it was cool having a gunslinging grandma, and Sly seemed to be way cooler back then. Oh well, goodbye dear childhood.

3/10

Stallone's embarrassing disappointing bad awful flick

[NightmareOnElmStreetFan · 1/10 · 20 October 2019]

I regret buying this movie on Blu-ray disc I only have it for Stallone collection. This is one of bad awful flick from Stallone. Sly is right it belongs to one of his worst action comedy's. Sylvester Stallone did not want to make this movie, he drop out. He was set up and that good like in Tango & Cash (1989). In the 80's and 90's Sly and Scwarzenegger compete against each other. When Sly drop out, he hear producers saying we will get Arnold Schwarzenegger instead. So Sly change his mind and accept the role to beat Scharzenegger. Schwarzenegger set him up! He lied that he want to do this movie he set up Sly and that good! I wish Sly would punch Arnold in the face.

Kindergarten Cop and Last Action Hero are much better movies than this garbage it was not executed well. What happened Stallone? This is really embarrassing disappointing bad awful flick from you. The action seqeunces are lazy, terrible. When you see an action scene and you see Sly fighting on screen that is not Stallone it is his stunt double doing his stunts! So what happened Stallone? Why did you not make your own stunts? The comedy was so bad awful Sly.

The music in this movie was horrible from Alan Silvestri and that guy made a music for Predator 1 and 2, Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future Trilogy, Ricochet, Death Becomes Her, Sidekicks , Judgment Night and even more good movies. The music is terrible Silvestri.

The acting is god awful horrible, the plot stinks. I don't consider this movie a good movie I cosnider it a flop. I don't hate the film but I don't like it either Sly. Roger Spottiswoode is not the blame, I like the director he is a talented director I like him a lot. I like Terror Train, Shoot to Kill one of my favorite movies from the director, I love Tomorrow Never Dies - James Bond 007, I like The 6th Day I went to see it in the movie teather Arnold Scwarzenegger movie.

For a Stallone fan I love Rocky all six movies, I love all four Rambo movies to death, Cobra I love to death, Tango & Cash, Over the Top, Lock Up, Demolition Man I love, lov ethat movie to death, Cliffhanger, Cop Land, Assasssins, The Specialist and even more of his movie. This movie I don't like. I would really like to see Oscar someday I have not seen that movie over 20 years but I remember as kid liking it and thinking it is a good movie. Estelle Getty was better in Golden Girls than in this movie. This movie sucks and that horrible bad.

Oh lord

[redcrossaint · 2/10 · 8 May 2022]

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.

Take your mother to see it - but don't ask her to stay over.

[ianlouisiana · 7/10 · 22 August 2006]

Very few people make bad films on purpose.Mr Stallone is nobody's fool. These statements should be self-evident.Therefore if SOMMWS is so bad why did a reputable director and a canny star have anything to do with it?The answer is that it isn't a bad film at all,when I saw it the cinema audience gave every appearance of huge enjoyment,many of Miss Getty's one - liners induced such laughter that Mr Stallone's rueful responses were often inaudible.I believe the trouble lies in the fact that many critics refuse to accept that Mr Stallone is in fact quite an accomplished light comedian as well as being an action star of proved bankability. As an LA detective having his mother over for a visit he is able to play against type in this fish out of water comedy.As mother,Miss Estelle Getty seizes a rare big screen opportunity and makes every line count.She is an innocent abroad in big bad LA,blithely going where wise men fear to tread. SOMMWS is not ground - breaking stuff,but it is old - fashioned funny. You could take your mother to see it - but don't ask her to stay over.

Stallone regrets staring in this movie

[branflakes1522 · 1/10 · 6 March 2019]

"maybe one of the worst films in the entire solar system, including alien productions we've never seen".

He only starred in the movie because Arnold Schwarzenegger faked interest in the movie, making Stallone jump on the role before he could

What is so bad about this?

[pinkmonkip · 10/10 · 12 September 2013]

I found this movie to be very watchable. I had read about it on Stallone's trivia and because of the awful reviews and what has been said about it I thought that I would turn it off after ten minutes. Instead I thought it was really funny, better than other comedy movies like 'The Hangover' which are critically acclaimed. I think people just like to belittle Sly, and his appearance in such a movie was an easy target. Him and Estelle Getty had great chemistry together. As a comedy it succeeds, and I would recommend it to anyone. Don't believe the reviewers who are constantly shoving pretentious, mediocre and often very unfunny comedies down the viewing public's throat! After my experience watching this movie I'm going to check out 'Oscar', another of Stallone's comedy outlets, and in future ignore IMDb's rating system, the top 250 is questionable; so perhaps I should start at the bottom, where this magnificent film has so unfairly been placed!

The Actors Made this Movie

[KarenMarieS · 6/10 · 1 February 2007]

I had to give this movie a 6 out of 10.

The story was corny, the plot was predictable. The supporting cast was lacking. This is not a thriller or an intelligent movie. It is a B comedy., at best.

But the interaction between Stallone and Getty was fantastic. They play their roles to perfection as anyone from the Northern New Jersey area can attest. They were believable. They were hysterical.

I would watch this again, just to watch Stallone and Getty play the mom and son role so true to life. They made us cringe. We really felt for Stallone as the son. They made us laugh non stop.

A forgotten and unloved comedy, but it's not as bad as they say.

[filipemanuelneto · 4/10 · 17 March 2022]

Alright, I recognize that this movie is not good and has several problems. However, it was the product of a time when nonsensical parodies were in vogue. I remember that the "Police Academy" franchise was one of the successes of that years, having continued to have acceptance on TV throughout the 90s. It is a familiar and educated comedy that tries to have fun without slang or dirty jokes, that has been more popular with young people nowadays. Despite the film's problems and flaws, which are undeniable, perhaps the way we look at humor and what makes us laugh also helped to bury this film in the oblivion.

The screenplay is based on Joe, a tough, independent detective's complicated relationship with his elderly mother, Tutti, who came to visit despite his unwillingness to do so, and who intrudes heavily on her son's personal and love life, subjecting him to deeply embarrassing situations, such as showing everyone photographs of his childhood and picaresque stories that he preferred to keep to himself. The film shows us how that mother is truly in love with her son, and she stubbornly resists acknowledging that she no longer has to take care of him like she used to. It also reveals how, deep down, he likes his mother, caring about her and accepting her help when he sees that she is right in what she says. For many people, the movie is pure nonsense, but the truth is that I know many mothers like that, for whom their children never grow up, and who like to have an active role in their lives, even if that's not what they want.

The movie is funny, in a polite and moderate way. He's not flashy and knows how to parody the cop action movies that were successful in the 80's. Despite this, he has a far-fetched story involving a situation of insurance fraud and arms trafficking, villains that never deserve our respect nor threaten, cliché characters loaded with almost every possible stereotype and a total lack of direction.

The cast is weak and doesn't get decent material. The spotlight naturally turns to an excellent performance by Estelle Getty, who achieves the most popular performance of her career in this film. The most resounding name, however, is Sylvester Stallone, who offers us a work that almost satirizes some of the action works that made him popular. The actor would later admit that he considers this film the worst he has starred in, and I can see why: there are many bad scenes, and some of them are particularly worthy of regret (the diaper scene, I confess, was something I would refuse). Nevertheless, and despite being far from his usual record, Stallone guarantees an impacting and charismatic presence.

The film has heavily dated cinematography that reeks of the 80s, with washed out colors and low contrast, but I think that's part of the nature of the film, which can't go against what was in use when it was conceived. There are a lot of action scenes, highly predictable but well done, where the special effects work reasonably well. The rhythm is very good, it doesn't get into tiring melodramas nor does it really tire us.

Estelle Getty

[Kirpianuscus · 11 July 2019]

She is ...fabulous. And her chemistry with Stallone works in splendid way. A comedy in which the actors are more, more importants than the story. Not only because the plot is, in essence, a skinny sketch, but because each performance gives the great perspective about familiar aspects. A film about motherhood and a beautiful proof for the high skills of Sylvester Stallone for comedy. One of films who you adore. Scene by scene. Crazy, touching, seductive, lovely. And the fine occasion for Estelle Geetty to use her large experience in the roles of mother for a memorable comedy, having, fortunatelly, the ideal partner.

Oh dear, Oh dear......

[HORROR_FAN_1 · 1/10 · 18 April 2002]

I watched this film recently because one of my younger cousins rented it out from the video store and yes, without a shadow of a doubt, this is one of the worst films I have ever come across. It falls into the same category as the following awful classics: 'Jaws:The Revenge', 'Monster in the Closet', 'Knight Rider 2010' & 'American Pie'.

What was Stallone thinking when he signed up for this movie, it was the same with Arnie when he did that utter trash film 'Jingle All The Way', although that film was so bad it was funny. It was probably only his superstar status that saved him from being constantly overlooked by casting directors in the future.

Even my cousin who is 7 said that this film was awful. It was only the fact that this movie was rented that I didn't throw the video cassette into the microwave, or in the blender or curled it David Beckham style over my neighbour's gardens.

I've also read what the other IMDb users have said about this movie and I have to admit I am in shock. Although the vast majority say it is a dreadful film, there are some who actually like this flick!, which I find quite astonishing. The only reasonable explanations that I can think of is that they have either just been discharged from a mental institution, releated to Stallone or Sly is paying them a disclosed fee to lie about this garbage film.

Well, I've hope I have made my point clear and I also hope that other IMDb users who are considering renting this movie out just because it has Sly 'Rocky' Stallone in it, will definitely think again.

DO NOT RENT OR BUY THIS MOVIE, BE WARNED!.

Rating -0/10, SHOCKING. I would have voted this film as zero in the rating charts but it only allows you to give a minimum of 1.

Stop or I will shoot myself!

[saint405 · 1/10 · 18 July 2005]

Sylvestor Stallon is back playing a hard edged cop named Joe who's life is turned upside down when his sweet mother Tuti comes to visit. While not only embarrassing her son, Tuti buys an illegal gun for Joe and see's the dealers get killed. Joe and Tuti are then on the run together and must find out the mystery of the murders before they are killed. Wow, this film was bull crap! This has to be Stallons worst film ever and Estelle Getty is nice as Joe's mom but she is so unlikeable! First she seems sweet when we are introduced to her but later in the film she shoot at guys with guns and says bad words, nothing like her at the start of the film. The villains in this film are numbskull's and the mastermind isn't seen or talked about till the last half hour of the movie! The story is goop and nonsense, thinking you can have a blast with this idea but it turns on you and becomes pure trash. The only good laugh you can get from this wreck is when Tuti finds Joe's old pistol and starts to clean it in the sink. Stop or My Mom Will Shoot is a real tragedy, it's gets a 1. Not recommended at all. Just stay away at all cost!

Dismally Unfunny.

[FiendishDramaturgy · 3/10 · 28 April 2007]

I don't know what ANYONE was thinking, in doing this movie. Sylvester Stallone (Sly) had a pretty good career going in the action genre, when he let loose with this stinker.

A tough detective's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to "fix" his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere with his job and love life, eventually "helping" him with a current case.

Estelle Getty is adorable as the irascible curmudgeonly mom, and Stallone is average as a detective on the edge, but this whole thing came off like a terrible idea, hence the horrid ratings it has received here at IMDb. Believe me, it's earned it.

This is just terrible and SO not funny. It's just kind of sad that Estelle Getty was wasted on this crap.

It rates a 2.8/10 from....

the Fiend :.

I guess Arnold Schwarzenegger was right..

[dgarcia-41965 · 5/10 · 17 October 2020]

I ended up watching this After watching Jimmy Kimmel with Arnold Schwarzenegger about him tricking Sly that he was interesting on taking this role knowing the script was trash.. Sly ending up rushing to get the role just to steal the spotlight.

Yep the movie was alright I have gave it 5 just to give Stallone some support lol.

Mommie Dearest

[sol- · 5/10 · 29 September 2016]

Unusual circumstances lead to a hard-nosed detective teaming up with his domineering mother in this action comedy starring Sylvester Stallone, who once cited it as the worst film of his acting career. With Stallone's comment and the film's sweep at the 1992 Razzies, 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' has gained an unfairly negative reputation over the years. Estelle Getty is certainly way over-the-top and the basic plot is predictable with Stallone eventually coming to appreciate his mother after a lot of resistance, but there are enough scattered laughs that the film never once bores. Roger Rees (who would go onto to hilariously lampoon Alan Rickman in 'Men in Tights' one year later) is great as the befuddled antagonist in the tale, managing to maintain a straight face while talking about Getty's plans to pull down his pants and spank him! Alan Silvestri's mysterious, jazzy music score also rates as one of his best and Getty has some funny lines even if her character is too irksome for one to ever truly warm towards. The action scenes are admittedly quite nifty too (director Roger Spottiswoode would later go helm the riveting 'Tomorrow Never Dies'). Sure, this not a refreshingly classy, laugh-out-loud comedy like 'Oscar' was for Stallone, but neither is it anywhere near as mediocre as one might expect. Stallone's uttering the title line is worth a chuckle alone.

Good entertainment

[widsith-58602 · 7/10 · 13 September 2015]

IMDb averaging 4/10? No way! This is great fun. Sly is a tough but fair cop living a bachelor lifestyle whose minuscule mother comes to stay with him. In no time she's trying to 'improve' him with motherly advice, improve his diet and get him back together with his lady love. It never dips into sentimentality or become too serious, and is a quality, well-paced production in general.

Happening to catch this on TV recently, I'd long forgotten that Sly can not only act when he wants to, but has excellent comic timing. (He really should have not spent so much time trying to be an action hero, but explored his dramatic and comic abilities). There are some really good moments, such as when his mom squares up to a sly villain threatening her son and comes out with a catchphrase of Sly's real-life rival Arnie Schwartzenegger.

The only criticism I'd give is that toward the end a slightly laborious car chase is thrown in, but thankfully the comedy returns as his interfering mom steps in again. Good entertainment, and it really, really deserves at least a couple of stars more on the IMDb rating.

Stallone for me made this kinda watchable

[happytoms · 5/10 · 26 October 2019]

I remember watching this movie when I was very very young and I kinda remembered parts of and I kept procrastinating watching it again now because I remembered I loved it when I was young. So finally came the day I saw it and I must say even after all these years I was a bit disappointed.

It's the classic 1990s family-friendly movie formula. All you need is to base the story on a lonely guy with a love interest and a person who will come into his life who will try to help him overcome everything he's struggling with. At first, he will refuse but at the end of the movie everything will work out with all the love/hâte relationships. have action/serious scènes which mostly leads to comedy and everything else you would expect from a 1990s movie. Then you will need one or two high profile actors to attract people to the movie and boom you are making money on a bad movie.

The story is as cliché as you would expect, and it's kinda enjoyable even after all these years. Cliché story, music, effects, and the amazing 1990s vibe works kinda well.

Overall I think quite a lot of people won't enjoy it and some will because they watched it many years ago and enjoyed it. Personally, after watching it, this feels like not the greatest movie and not the worst one, it's somewhere in the middle around 5 out of 10. Wouldn't recommend to anyone who wants to see à Stallone movie.

Your mother and your girlfriend will like this movie.

[taisochko · 10/10 · 10 October 2018]

I don't know why Stallone himself doesn't like it, but I think he is upset about critic's reaction. Who cares about critics and their reviews? Critics are the bunch of heartless penguines. This movie is a family treasure, it has very funny scenes, fantastic acting and great music. If you need some Christmas style summer comedy, watch it with whole family immediately. If you want to impress your new girlfriend, do it now.

Stallone and Getty make a charming team.

[OllieSuave-007 · 7/10 · 15 April 2014]

Sylvester Stallone is an iconic action star and Estelle Getty was a hilarious, sarcastic and witty Golden Girl. Put the two together and you'll get yourself one charming action-comedy, where tough Los Angeles cop Sgt. Joe Bomowski (Stallone) gets a visit from his nurturing, feisty and fearless mother Tutti (Getty), who beings to meddle in Joe's life affairs, interfering with his police work and love life.

There are some very oddball and corny humor with some campy dialog in the movie, at mostly the expense of Stallone and Getty. The supporting actors were given the back burner and the villains were forgettable. And yet, while the plot goes at a very steady-pace with limited action, I've found the comedic chemistry between Stallone and Getty, which make up most of the movie, to be pretty entertaining and fun to watch and is, at times, heartwarming. Getty's obsessive behavior to be very baby-nurturing to Stallone as he responds in his frustrated way is itself classic. And, it's not everyday you see a petite, motherly, 68 year-old lady brandish a gun and deal with gangsters!

While not an action flick that would blow you out of your seats, you will get several laughs out of this movie.

Grade B-

Unfunny and Moronic Comedy

[claudio_carvalho · 5/10 · 4 November 2016]

The tough Sergeant Detective Joseph Andrew "Joe" Bomowski (Sylvester Stallone) is an efficient cop that has a love affair with his Lieutenant Gwen Harper (JoBeth Williams), but he never proposes her to a serious commitment. When his overprotective mother Tutti Bomowski (Estelle Getty) comes from Newark, New Jersey, to spend a couple of day visiting him, his life turns upside-down. She decides to clean his pistol with bleach and ruins it; so she decides to buy another weapon for Joe and stumbles upon two criminals selling illegal weapons. But there is a shootout and Tutti witnesses a murder. Now she has to stay with Joe since she is a witness, driving him crazy with her interference.

"Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot" is an unfunny and moronic comedy with an imbecile story that does not make laugh. Estelle Getty is awful in the role of Tutti Bomowski, one of the most annoying and silly characters ever. It is impossible to laugh with her attitudes that seem to be symptoms of dementia. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Pare! Senão Mamãe Atira" ("Stop! Otherwise Mom Shoots")