Stallone: The worst film I’ve ever made by far… maybe one of the worst films in the entire solar system, including alien productions we've never seen… a flatworm could write a better script than Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. In some countries – China, I believe – running Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot once a week on government television has lowered the birth rate to zero. If they ran it twice a week, I believe in twenty years China would be extinct.
Co-writer Blake Snyder only wrote one more film, Blank Check by Walt Disney Pictures, before he vanished from Hollywood completely. He is now much more fondly remembered for his screenwriting-basics book, Save The Cat, which became the default screenwriting formula and litmus test used in Hollywood in the late 2000s and early 2010s. He did get an "in memory of" in DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon (2010) years later.
Another crowning demonstration that Stallone cannot do comedy.
Oddly enough in the Mexican Spanish dub, Tutti is voiced by the late Araceli de León, who normally dubbed young girls (or boys) or middle-aged women, but rarely old women.
Star-Derailing Role: For both Stallone and Getty, who both won Razzies for their horrible performances. Unfortunate for Getty, as this was her first title role. It was also her last. She did not appear in another movie until 1999's Stuart Little, and she only did one more film after that before she had to retire when diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia (this is the type of dementia that convinced Robin Williams to commit suicide).
Supposedly, Arnold Schwarzenegger was meant to star in the lead role. This film was being made during a heated rivalry between Stallone and Arnold, and Stallone quickly joined the cast in an attempt to one-up his competition. He apparently realized too late that Arnold himself started the rumor of his casting and had tricked Stallone into working on this movie. Many years later, Arnold would admit to indeed having set Stallone up that way.
Additionally, Stallone stated in the past that, while it probably still wouldn't be considered a good movie, the original script was a bit darker, and the mother character was supposed to be a much nastier piece of work in the vein of Anne Ramsey in Throw Momma from the Train, but that fell apart when Estelle Getty was cast, whom Stallone described as the sort of sweet, kind person you wish your mother was like.
Stallone: The worst film I’ve ever made by far… maybe one of the worst films in the entire solar system, including alien productions we've never seen… a flatworm could write a better script than Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. In some countries – China, I believe – running Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot once a week on government television has lowered the birth rate to zero. If they ran it twice a week, I believe in twenty years China would be extinct.