Invisible Mom

Professor Karl Griffin unable to stand up to his boss at work, invents an invisibility serum in his lab at home. Meanwhile, his son, Josh, is having trouble with the neighborhood bully and grounded by his mother for not doing his chores. Josh decides to use the potion to become invisible so he can get out of the house (and presumably extract some transparent pay back against the aforementioned bully). Unfortunately, his mother accidentally drinks the potion instead. What neither Josh nor his mother realize is that Karl has yet to develop an antidote. Wackiness ensues as mom in her unseen state helps Karl and Josh solve their problems. Now, if only they can figure a way to restore her to normal. As a simple, easy going comedy, Invisible Mom should appeal greatly to younger children, but do not expect much more from it. Adults will easily see through numerous holes in its plot.

WOW!! I never seen a movie as bad as this one before.

This movie got a Invisible Dog and a Lizard. There is more things there are invisible then "A MOM".

The makers of this movie really should name the title of this movie "The Invisible things".

The plot and the acting is so bad that makes "Attack of the killer tomatoes" looks like an award winning feature film.

STAY AWAY FROM THIS MOVIE AT ALL COSTS.

MAN I CAN'T BELIEVE I WASTE MY TIME WATCHING THIS REALLY BAD MOVIE!!!!

Boy oh boy oh golly gee,

The most interesting thing in the movie was the hilarity of the bluescreen effects used to create Mom's "invisibility." They looked like they were shot on cheap video, and it looks totally unreal, and not even in a good way where its so funny that you end up loving the movie...

I did NOT end up loving this movie. The attempted "steadicam" shots were really pathetic as well. I mean, hey, if they had a low budget flick, that's fine. You can still make a great movie with a low budget. But, a BAD movie and a low budget AND effects. That makes for a bad combination. In this case, such a doomed combo created the craptastic film, "Invisible Mom." If you have kids, and your kids have no taste, perhaps they will stay awake through all of this one.

The Griffin family is your typical suburban family with your typical suburban family problems. Dad (Barry Livingston) is a slightly eccentric scientist/inventor having problems standing up to his stuffy, impossible-to-impress boss. Son (Trenton Knight) is having a tough time dealing with the neighborhood bully and has just been grounded for not doing his chores. And Mom (Dee Wallace Stone), well, she has even bigger problems when she accidentally ingests an invisibility serum created by her husband and disappears from sight. After overcoming her initial horror, mom ends up using her newfound powers to help out each member of her family while her husband scurries to create an antidote to return her to normal.

No genre is safe from director Ray; he can churn out the sleaziest T&A fest to the mildest and most harmless kiddie-oriented trifle. Despite the hokey blue screen special effects and the silly screenplay, this passable kids film will no doubt please the 10 and under crowd. Most adults may want to pull a disappearing act of their own while it's playing, but some others may enjoy the appearances from such cult celebrities such as Russ Tamblyn, Stella Stevens, John Ashley (in his first role in many years; which turned out to also be his last) and Brinke Stevens. Dee Wallace's ingratiating and enthusiastic lead performance is a major plus and she helps keep it all watchable. Though listed as 1997 on here I am pretty sure it was actually made in 1995. A minor video and cable hit, it was followed by two sequels; INVISIBLE DAD and INVISIBLE MOM II.

The Video Movie Guide gives this one 3 stars, so I rented it for my nieces, and they loved it. Invinting seems to run in the family, and the girls really loved his automatic bed-maker! When he's grounded, the boy steals his inventor father's invisibility formula, but his mother (the mom from ET) drinks it instead. Now the boy can't sneak an extra cookie without mom seeing him. The girls laughed, and I thought it was an okay movie. Good for the kids.