Party Mom

Not a terrible Lifetime Movie for Chicks. As always, the fun is in the faux pas and errata. Here we go:

1. Ashley speaking about Brittany: "I just saw Ashley..." Hey dummy, YOU are Ashley!!! How did no one catch this? Not the character playing Ashley or anybody else in the scene or affiliated with the movie?!?!?

2. Parents find that teenage daughter is missing from bed when she was supposed to have been asleep. "We gotta go find her!" No call, no text first????? Come on.

3. Cops show up at party mom's home and immediately arrest the party mom outside for serving underage alcohol to minors. No questioning, no looking through the premises, no nothing. Did not even go inside the house! Ridiculous.

4. Cops show up 1 minute after someone's killed at a residential home. No one even called 911! But these cops apparently have ESP and know just when and where a crime has been committed. The justice system is still broken in LA but the cops are johnny on the spot!

5. Car heard in the distance (but not visible) outside residential home. For no reason, mom tells her daughter to go upstairs and lock the door. And what do you know, it's a threatening person coming to the home! Mom has ESP!

Krista Allen is fantastic as the "party mom", but it's not enough to save this one. The story idea was really good, but the presentation was not. The whole thing seems too hastily put together, and there are a few plotholes big enough to drive a 30 minute episode of ALF through. Some key parts of the cast seemed pretty much asleep. My standards for made-for-TV fare aren't that high, and this one still doesn't make the cut. 2/10

Instead of an opportunity to focus on teenage drinking, drunk driving, enabling parents and the legal system it instead morphed into a campy, over the top and completely illogical murder mystery.