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...motherhood theme forms the basis for the movie's conflict. The aliens are the disgusting progeny of a huge, grotesque mama alien, enraged by the destruction of her babies by the earthlings. To revenge herself upon Ripley, the mother alien steals Newt away from...
...herself. According to this scenario, the ultimate stage mother locked up her love-hungry daughter on the night of the murder. Minter escaped and fled to Taylor's house. When Normand came by on a social visit, the girl hid upstairs in the bedroom. Mama arrived with her trusty .38 just in time to see her daughter descending the stairs. Assuming the worst, she opened fire. The case was never solved because Shelby used most of Minter's movie earnings, nearly a million dollars in all, to pay off various officials...
...angered jurors decided to punish the school: "You know how your mama used to whip you down?" explained Jury Forewoman Melanie Mims. And Juror Darryell Howell added, of the university's treatment of Kemp, "We don't want this to ever happen again...
...this film lays the sauce on thick. Cheap melancholy violin strains, again a la Mama Leone's, drip over each scene, happy or sad. All things Italian are overdone like a microwaved lasagna. Wild emotional responses ooze over the stock stereotypical Italian characters we've come to be bored with over the years, such as the psychic grandmother and--could you have guessed--the mob. And the ending drags on like a meal of wet noodles. Beginning to feel indigestion...
Granted, like Mama Leone's, this movie has a certain Old World "charm." But I probably would have felt better about Macaroni if I waited to see it on cable. After all, homecooked Italian meals always wind up tasting superior and costing much less...