So much average

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Tod (robustly played with deliciously hammy élan by Jon Lovitz), the idiotic emperor of the tiny planet of Spengo, plans to destroy the earth. It's up to chipper, frumpy housewife Marge (the always delightful Terri Garr) and her grumpy husband Dick (the excellent Jeffrey Jones) to stop Todd. Director Greg Beeman, working from a blithely inane and good-natured script by Chris Matheson and Ed Soloman, pitches the cheerfully dippy humor at an appropriately broad pitch and maintains an infectiously lighthearted tone throughout. The humor is essentially Monty Python meets Dr. Seuss, with several inspired moments of surreal silliness (the cute killer mushrooms and the gag about the deadly light grenade are especially sidesplitting). The cast have a field day with the divinely asinine material: Garr and Jones make for appealing leads (their bickering scenes in particular are hilarious), Lovitz is an absolute riot as the hopelessly stupid and arrogant Tod, Thalmus Rasulala contributes a winning turn as General Afir, Kathy Ireland looks positively delectable in her skimpy outfit as Semage, and there are nice bits by Eric Idle as the absentminded King Raff and Wallace Shawn as meek torturer Sibor. Tony Gardner supplies a bunch of funky creatures; the fish ladies and bulldog men are simply adorable. Kudos are also in order for Jerry Goldsmith's spirited zany score and Jacques Haitkin's crisp cinematography. A very funny and charming goof of a film.

The film, as a whole, is for fans of Teri Garr, Jeffrey Jones or Jon Lovitz, because there is nothing especially enduring in it. BUT there are a couple of running gags and a scene involving a "Light Grenade" that gets my family laughing even after several screenings.

I loved this movie! From the beginning to the end it is an absolute masterpiece! The title alone makes you wonder 'Mom and Dad Save the World'. If you take this movie seriously, please do yourself a favor and have your head examined. This is a great movie when you need a quick laugh. 5/5.

My wife and I went to see this when it first hit theaters. I'm not sure why, but it was probably because I still had a high opinion of Jon Lovitz at the time--I think this was during his heyday on Saturday Night Live when his liar character Tommy Flanagan, the "acting!" guy, and other such skits were at the height of their popularity.To be honest, I can't really comment much on this film. The reason for that is that both my wife and I fell asleep during it, right in the middle of the theater! That's unheard of for us. It stands out as one of the most miserable theater-going experiences I've ever had. I was shocked to see all the positive reviews of this film here on imdb, so I felt I had to offer an opposing view even though I can't really talk specifics about the film since it put me into a coma.