Invisible Mom |
  • USA • 1996 • 91m •    • Directed by: Fred Olen Ray. • Starring: Dee Wallace, Barry Livingston, Trenton Knight, Russ Tamblyn, Stella Stevens, Christopher Stone, Phillip Van Dyke, Brinke Stevens, Giuseppe Andrews, Vanessa Greyshock, Beth Ulrich, Tripp Reed, William C. Martell. • Music by: Jeffrey Walton.     A family's life is thrown into comical chaos after mom accidentally drinks her inventor husband's latest concoction, an invisibility potion.
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(Dee Wallace Stone) as the mom, and (Trenton Knight) as her kid, did nicely. (Barry Livingston), as the inventor father, was good but with no charisma or chemistry with (Stone). The rest enjoyed me especially the noisy neighbor played loveably by (Stella Stevens), the sex symbol once, who showed as a hopeless weirdo.
Then, the poor side. The music is electronic hell (the thing is it didn't want to stop!). While the special effects are better being left forgotten; I think it was done in TV-ish style first, then got re-shot cinematically. Some moments kill me; such as seeing the invisible mom eats out of dog food's bag while no visible food is shown, the invisible dog reminded me of the very early special effects in the silent cinema, and honestly no one cries like that, over a photo, unless a loose faucet!
The bent to use strange lens, so the characters' faces may seem deformedly big or rather scary in close-ups, did annoy me. Couple of possible action scenes was disappointed, such as the chase of the inventor and his son at the lab. Overall that directing had nothing to dazzle. It moved by the power of the script.
Even though, the script has lousy – yet few – points; the scene of the kid feeling sad over the absence of his mother right before her reappearance was sort of misplaced, I thought it was fit more for the night scene at the orphanage, how come the evil scientist is so confident that the wife will come to the lab after arresting her husband? (how to observe her entry too?!), and finally the kid faced his bully by the power of the mom; it was comic yes, but not dramatically effective, a move by him would have been stronger, well, sure that line didn't complete, even his girl, since the middle of the movie, got invisible herself!
It looks like a Disney movie, yet on a cruel diet. However, I loved it. It is fun movie, done by little money. See here "Poor" isn't a motto for being bad, as much as "Expensive" hasn't become a motto for being good nowadays!
P.S : Did anybody, else me, notice the beauty (Beth Ulrich), heroine of a few later movies like (LifeDrawing – 2001), as the custody officer beside the orphanage's telephone? Although they hided her face behind a huge glasses but her delightful presence can't be mistaken.
Review by elshikh4 from the Internet Movie Database.
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