Wouldn’t it be nice to have a Mommy who would stick up for you? A Mommy who would kill the teacher who gave you a B-? Little Jessica-Anne loves her Mommy, and her Mommy loves… blood!
This movie stars the chick from the Bad Seed as a Tipper Gore -esque PTA mom who goes around bumping off important people like the middle school janitor (watch the movie to see how pointless this really is!) She gets to pop into the frame suddenly, accompanied by loud orchestra hits. It’s no accident that Patricia McCormack also played little Rhoda Penmark– in one scene, we hear “Au Claire de la Lune” just as she’s about to bump somebody off. Nice try guys!
It’s so much fun to listen to Jessica-Ann’s overly naive narration and sentimental ramblings. She wanders around dorkily rationalizing her Mommy’s psychotic behavior in the face of exaggerated plot devices. There’s also a sarcastic hard-boiled Columbo look-alike cop who gets to stumble around a lot and look perpetually out of breath and sweaty. We’re set up to think that he’s going to figure everything out, but he’s basically just a big weenie.
This movie seemed a little long, but judged against other bad movies of its caliber, it’s pretty action-packed. You’re guaranteed at least one thing to make fun of in every scene. Though it tries to be the sequel to The Bad Seed, in terms of awfulness it far surpasses the original.
I’m giving Mommy two cheese whizzes because I’m hoping that the makers of this film weren’t being entirely serious. But maybe I’m too generous. Anyway, there’s apparently a sequel, the redundantly named Mommy II: Mommy’s Day, but I haven’t yet found it on video. That will be a happy day.
Trivia: You may recognize Jessica-Ann’s dead teacher as the voice of Star Trek’s computer, Majel Barrett.
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