The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

There are occasions when I feel like watching a movie I know is meant to be bad on purpose, this had been shown on TV a number of times, I knew it was rated badly, so I thought I'd indulge myself in trash, directed by Roger Spottiswoode (Turner & Hooch, Tomorrow Never Dies, The 6th Day, A Street Cat Named Bob). Basically Sergeant Detective Joe Bomowski (Razzie winning Sylvester Stallone) is an efficient, tough cop. He has a love affair with Lieutenant Gwen Harper (JoBeth Williams), but he cannot make a serious commitment. One time, when she asks why he cannot commit, he gives the unconvincing excuse that his mother is visiting him, he makes a call to his mother to make this excuse a reality. Soon enough, Joe's seemingly frail, overprotective mother Tutti (Razzie winning Estelle Getty) comes from Newark, New Jersey, to spend a couple of days with him. Joe's life is turned upside down by his mother's presence, she still treats him like a child, she meddles in his life, and constantly embarrasses him with stories and photographs from his childhood. Tutti makes the mistake of cleaning Joe's gun with bleach and ruins it, so she decides to go and buy him a new gun, and winds up buying an illegal MAC-10 machine pistol, and then witnesses the murder of one of the men who sold it to her. Tutti is questioned by police officer Ross (J. Kenneth Campbell) about what happened, but she frustrates him giving him vague and babbling detail, she only gives accurate information and description to her son, but she also interferes with his duty and other cases. The gun was part of a large collection taken from a burned building, and as the case continues they find corruption involving businessman Parnell (Roger Rees). No matter how Joe tries to restrain Tutti from getting involved with his work, she always manages to find a way to get out of it, and then ends up getting too close to dangerous people. In the end, following an attempted escape by the criminals at an air strip, Joe rescues his mother, and she shoots a bad guy in the shoulder before he can harm her son. In the end, Joe finally makes a commitment to Gwen, but before Tutti can go home, she recognises a man at the airport from America's Most Wanted, she remembers him on it for shooting his mother. Also starring Jurassic Park's Martin Ferrero as Paulie, Gailard Sartain as Munroe, John Wesley as Tony, Dennis Burkley as Mitchell, Ving Rhames as Mr. Stereo and Richard Schiff as Gun Clerk. Stallone is reasonable being the good guy, but he fails being driven mad and in tender moments, but much worse is Getty, the majority of the time she is highly irritating being eccentric, naïve and nit-picky. The jokes are obviously supposed to be coming from the buddy cop style, the cop having his life ruined by his annoying mother, I will admit some of the action moments were kind of fun, and there were moments that made me titter, but otherwise it a joke-free, badly written and almost detestable watch, a pointless comedy. It won the Razzie for Worst Screenplay. Pretty poor!

Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot is a comedy directed by Roger Spottiswoode (Turner And Hooch) and starring Sylvester Stallone (Rocky), Estelle Getty (TV sitcom The Golden Girls), and JoBeth Williams (Poltergeist). Stallone plays Joey Bomowski, L.A. cop who gets a surprise visit from his mother Tutti, played by Getty. She's in town to clean up Joey's house, clean up his crumbling love life with his boss Gwen, played by Williams, and clean up the city as she partners up with her son to catch some bad guys who were involved in a crime that she is the only witness to. Joey, on the other hand, must deal with his mother showing everybody she meets his baby pictures, washing his gun with water and soap, and feeding him breakfast (the most important meal of the day!) The movie is silly but mildly entertaining. Getty and Stallone's on screen chemistry is the worst since Dolly Parton and Stallone's duet performance in Rhinestone.There's really not much to say about "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot". It follows a recurring gag: the mother embarrassing her son, whether he's at home or on the job. Estelle Gelly sure is an old-fashion mother, very unrealistically so. She baked cookies, tucked her son to bed and sang a lullaby, made a huge breakfast for her son to eat, and even telling stories that he wet the bed (on a speakerphone), even in front of a suicide jumper next to Sly at one point; I know mothers often pamper their children, but normal mothers know when their child grows up. I understand it's a joke, but I don't really understand her at times: she seems very smart when she's helping Sly find some bad guys, but often she's very clueless like when she randomly bought an illegal weapon for her son; idiot savant or wise senility? I know the late great Golden Girl can be funnier than what she was in this movie, and the outrageous zany music didn't acclimate a dumb gag. It's a typical 90's screwball buddy-cop flick with an unusual partner, the unusual one being a senior citizen. The relationship between Sly and his mother had a few heartfelt moments, sappy as they are, which made me felt attached to them a bit. This is a generic flick, but it's a generic flick that plays fair.Overall rating: 6 out of 10.

Stop or my Mom will Shoot is by no means the funniest movie ever made or Stallone's best film ever but common he thinks that this is his worst movie? I think Stallone is a great actor and by no means i don't think he ever made a god-awful unwatchable film but he has made some not so awesome films like Bullet to the Head where his charisma is the only thing that shines. Sylvester Stallone & Estelle Getty have chemistry unlike what some people might tell you and the action is pretty well done and the humor is nice as well also the film has some lessons about life for example. There were a lot of problems on set like the producers lied to Getty that the film had no guns but it had or that Arnold Schwarzenegger faked his interest about the film and Stallone took the role and the film flopped. In the end Stop or my Mom will Shoot is no masterpiece but sure as hell it doesn't deserve the 4 out of 10 rating i mean did people seriously thought that the Fantastic Four reboot was better than this? really?

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.