Talkie Zoo: STOP! OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT

Not at the top of favorites from Sylvester Stallone, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992; PG-13) is a comedy. Or at least, it's supposed to be. I was loaned the DVD by a friend who thought it was hilarious. I, on the other hand, didn't find it that funny.

Stallone stars as a Los Angeles detective whose mother (Estelle Getty) comes for a visit. She surprises him and pretty well takes over his life, criticizing his home, his job, his love life and just about everything he's built in his life. She begins to work at fixing his life to suit herself, and even passes around embarrassing photos of him as a child, complete with embarrassing childhood stories.

I really think the filmmakers should have gotten a larger cash advance and hired better writers for this movie. I found it to be lame, predictable, and generally just not humorous. Getty's role is stereotypical and Stallone's role is stilted and dry.